For what it’s worth. Here’s Jacob Hornberger (okay, he’s really more of a libertarian, but still): The issue in the Terri Schiavo case is not whether the Florida district court originally entered a correct judgment or not. The issue is whether this is a nation in which the American people are going to continue permitting…

Another item from today’s Inquirer: Santorum shifting on a key issue: Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa), a longtime supporter of the death penalty, says he is reexamining his stance but not to the point of saying it is wrong in all cases. “I still support the death penalty, but what I’m suggesting is, number one,…

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy opens in a little over a month. They have a pretty nifty website here. (One question: where is Zaphod’s second head??)

The Inquirer has an article this morning discussing various religious groups’ responses to the Schiavo case. As you might expect, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali condemns the removal of Ms. Schiavo’s feeding tube as an unequivocally “evil” act. Reform Rabbi and medical ethicist Mark Washofsky said “A person need not be at the doorway of death…

Speaking of the Schiavo case, in today’s Inquirer analyst Dick Polman writes that it’s emblematic of the GOP’s shift from the party of limited government to the party of using the federal government to enforce a particular morality: Barry Goldwater said in 1964, “I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.” Ronald…

I have nothing of substance to add to the debate (there’s plenty of that elsewhere). I did think this article today at Slate was pretty good. It’s by Harriet McBryde Johnson who is a disability-rights lawyer in South Carolina. One thing in particular she says is worth highlighting: Despite the unseemly Palm Sunday pontificating in…

I’ve been reading Ronald Radosh’s Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism in which Radosh discusses the views of the “isolationist” conservatives of the World War I & II eras. The book, a sympathetic portrayal of its subjects, was written during Radosh’s “New Left” phase, before he went neocon and started…

Interesting article detailing how left-right coalitions have passed several local environmentally friendly measures. Environmental issues, especially at the state and local levels, are bringing together conservatives and liberals who agree on little else, providing common ground in an increasingly polarized nation. One of the benefits of federalism and localism is that local politics seem to…

Michael Gilleland (you do read his blog, right?) has a great quote on reading from M. Somerset Maugham.

Speaking of the Passion, the sermon preached by our associate pastor yesterday made what I thought were some very good points, and some that I was less sure about. She started off by noting that we in the advanced industrialized West aren’t all that good at dealing with suffering. She attributed this to the fact…