FDA rules that stem cells are a drug.    (more…)

Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable of Rolling Eyes and Texting, To Be Euthanized.

His Majesty: “I’m Emperor Palpatine, and I approved of this message.”

People who don’t understand rodent reproduction probably shouldn’t be rescuing rodents from snakes.

You can now buy tumor-shaped jewelry to show solidarity with persons suffering from breast cancer.

His Majesty: “I suppose it could be worse. They could be showing solidarity with persons suffering from hypospadia.”

A touching essay on how the dying talk about God.

And an unflatterintg look at Harvard divinity professors.

Walter Russell Mead argues that it is our success that has so disorganized our society.

In a single snarky run-on sentence. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t spot-on.

State of the Union speech assessed as being at eighth-grade level.

His Majesty: “Lord Vader, which audience do you mean? The American public, or Congress?”

Yes.

Holding a suspect until the police arrive isn’t vigilante justice. It’s sustaining and upholding the law.

Video of Afghanistan war crimes      (more…)

A most unusual lecture on some genuinely groundbreaking medical research. Warning: Not for the modest. Hint: The research was on novel treatments for the condition we bashfully call E.D.

The New Mexico state motto is apparently uncomfortably true.

Richard Lowry decries the unmanfulness of modern men.

I’ll second the nomination.

Justice requires social reform as well as economic reform. Individuals cannot flourish, indeed they cannot hope to survive in any meaningful way, apart from the rich lattice of relationships, families, and associations commonly known as civil society. This is a realm that exists apart from the state and independent of its authority. Here, in families and churches, schools and clubs, individuals make something of their lives and truly exercise their capacity to govern.

Yet government has been consuming civil society for years. Like their leftist counterparts around the world, American liberals distrust the social sector as moralistic, unequal, and hidebound. The “little platoons” of family and neighborhood too often stand in the way of making citizens truly equal. Churches and local communities too often impose obligations on individuals that keep them from pursuing happiness. Consequently, since the early part of the last century, Progressives have sought to replace society with government by absorbing the social sector’s teeming variety of voluntary associations into the state.

Thus Joshua D. Hawley