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March 2013

March 25, 2013

Journalism and stem cell research 101

If you think general religion coverage is bad, try mixing it with media coverage of...

March 20, 2013

The new ‘abortion’: cutting newborns’ spinal cords

Two years ago, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested for the murders of eight people at...

March 18, 2013

Telling the ‘truth’ in Hamas-Israeli conflict

Here's another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and...

March 17, 2013

Ghosts in Brennan’s Constitution oath?

Various media reported that new CIA chief John O. Brennan swore his oath of office...

March 12, 2013

Hypocrisy, grace and a fallen cardinal

The downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain's senior Roman Catholic cleric, has not shown the...

March 08, 2013

All the anonymous Vatican voices in the Gray Lady

At this point in the conclave process, I'm sure that millions of liberal Catholics are...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Media coverage of Roe at 40

One could write several volumes under this headline, but we'll just look at a few...

January 23, 2013

The ghost of abortion in adoption stories

Like many Americans, I've been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San...

January 04, 2013

Mixing scales of justice and songs of praise

Strange, strange, strange — like something out of a John Grisham novel. That was my...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

Telling Newtown’s story sensitively

I hope you can see the picture here. If you can't, please click here for...

December 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

December 10, 2012

Should Fox News be telling you to lie and steal?

I realize I'm the fuddy duddy around here who is always telling kids to get...

December 07, 2012

Missing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate

Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see....

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Defining depravity downwards in Deutschland

Der Spiegel's English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of the...

November 20, 2012

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

November 11, 2012

The decline and fall of King David Petraeus

Even by Friday night news dumps, this one was a doozie. David Petraeus resigned on...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

European values after Auschwitz

Seventy years after the Holocaust, Germany has constructed the first monument honoring the half million...

October 11, 2012

Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?

A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

At issue in Massachusetts: End of life

As I type this, I'm cruising at 39,000 feet on an American Airlines flight to...