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Eric Scheske
Revisited Yet Again: Does Abortion Reduce Crime?
The debate about correlation between abortion and crimes continues. This time,
in the Wall Street Journal
[http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB113314261192407815-R9vuq3EXAQIdQHvUx9yXwYodMXo_20061128.html]
:
> The "Freakonomics" chapter on abortion grew out of statistical studies Mr.
Levitt and a co-author, Yale Law School Prof.
Good for the Rest of Us
> Growing numbers of educated Italian women are throwing away their high heels and
lipstick and opting for the austere life of nuns in closed convents. . . .
> Until recently, most women entering closed convents in Rome were third world
immigrants with little education. Now the recruits are all Italians with
Outside Looking In
Disgusting, yes, but give the guy credit. At least he's not stealthily trying to
tear the Church apart. Nothing is worse than the renegade priests who cover up
their apostasy in hopes of furthering it (the M.O. of heretics throughout the
ages):
> The Rev. Tim Stier,
Charlie Brown Christmas
Fox News has a nice little piece about the Christmas special that turns 40 this
year [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176934,00.html]. The article also has
a listing of when a handful of Christmas specials will air during the next few
weeks, though they don'
C.S. Lewis Pans LWW!
I'd never seen this, but apparently it's from a letter written by C.S. Lewis in
1959:
> As things worked out, I wasn't free to hear a single instalment of our serial
[The Magician's Nephew] except the first. What I did
Beat the Children, Please
Great piece at NYT about our growing exasperation with ill-behaved children
[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/weekinreview/27warner.html?pagewanted=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133263837-BovfueQHnmNpOKkW7rc02g]
. Excerpt:
> Whether children are actually any worse behaved now than they ever have been
before is, of course,
Gushing Praise
A reviewer gushes over LWW.
[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/films/articles/21016346?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5]
Excerpt from the conclusion:
> Despite the long running time (over two hours) I would recommend Narnia even for
small children. Whatever your age, this is a magical movie, and far,
Misc. 11.28.05
I decorated the Christmas Tree with the Seven last night. It went well. I had to
keep vacuuming the floor to make sure Tess (8 months) wouldn't find any hooks to
shove in her mouth, but other than that, the decorating party was successful.
The tree's
The Daddy Has a Blessing
The New York Post runs a follow-up story to the baby who was cut from a woman's
womb last year [http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/58198.htm].
> Almost a year after she was literally ripped from her mother's womb in a crime
that