Eric Scheske

More from Those Crazy Courts! From the Wall Street Journal: "The U.S. Supreme Court may cite precedent from Jamaica and Zimbabwe, but jurors cannot rely on the Bible for wisdom, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled. The latter high court threw out the death sentence of Robert Harlan,

Now That's Good Sex! According to a survey, "'Half of the country sleeps pretty well -- the other half has problems.' What is to blame? The survey of more than 1,500 adults found that 87 percent usually watched TV in the hour before going to

That Cutting Edge is Soooo Passé "The number of women who choose to keep their surname when they get married has dropped significantly in the last 20 years since the fashion's peak in the mid-1980s." Authors of a new study estimate that "a little

Stalinist U Another instance of a study confirming what everyone already knew: “American professors are overwhelmingly liberal, according to a new report [http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2/] on faculty political attitudes. “Previous surveys have reached similar conclusions, but this one suggests that the ideological divide on campuses

Shape Up and Fly Right, Parents “Two-thirds of teenage children of parents who said religion is extremely important to them say religion is extremely important or very important in their own lives, while half of teens whose parents say that religion is not very important to them agree with

Sorry We Couldn't Be There Sounds like there was a lot of fun at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards dinner. Held at the Marriott Marquis in NYC, Jon Stewart greeted everyone via videotape with a shot at the religious right, “Good evening, Godless sodomites!

Wednesday Features Post Issue XVII Things have been hoppin'–both for TWE and our glass. For TWE, the RSS feed appears to have worked well, increasing our "Visitors" count by over 40% immediately (there could be other reasons for the increase, but that one seems most likely)

Crimson Crisis II Well, what do you expect when you don't have Cap'n Crunch and Fruit Loops? “A long-held stereotype that Harvard undergraduates feel neglected by their professors and don't have as much fun as students at other colleges now has some data

Slate Joins LA Times in Ignorance Add Slate and its chief political correspondent, William Saletan, to the list of publications and writers who feel qualified to talk about the Schiavo case and the DeLay case with no knowledge or acknowledgement of the Catholic Church's teaching on extraordinary versus

The Deathferall Government Christopher Manion has written a cogent article about the runaway federal government and the Schiavo case. LINK [http://www.lewrockwell.com/manion/manion63.html]. The thrust of his article: the issue of death and dying has traditionally been a local affair, normally right down to the smallest