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Double Effect As a Catholic with mostly Protestant, agnostic, or atheistic friends, Eric Scheske gets a lot of, sometimes pointed, questions about when it's permissible for a woman to get an abortion. Eric always answers, "Never," to which he gets a lot of other, even pointier,

Inside Higher Stalls Inside Higher Ed has a 1,400-word views piece about whether college students should be able to leave the room to use the bathroom. We know about the “publish or perish” problem among professors, but this? Then again, it appears to be a fiery topic: dozens of

Long-haired Freaky People Need Not Apply "As if the hair in your salad wasn't bad enough, a city health inspector in Cheyenne, Wyo. said there had been 'several cases' of tongue rings and other facial jewelry found in the food in the city's

Pride Unbound If you missed it, a group of today's leading novelists have undertaken to rewrite the great ancient myths. It's nauseating. Here's a link [http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/edesk031605.htm]; here are excerpts: "The mission of the literati, headed by Canadian

Dr. Death Here's a troubling story [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/international/europe/19verhagen.html?] from the New York Times about Dr. Eduard Verhagen, a cutting-edge Dutch physician who kills babies with serious health defects. It's euthanasia, but in this situation, there are no

More French Inanity The Ottawa Citizen's John Robson reports: "In a state-owned TV channel Top 100 French people poll, a certain 'Napoleon' misses the Top 10 cut, placing 16th (one viewer offers the deep historical insight "He was short, arrogant and I wouldn'

NAMBLA Redux The Queens "sicko" accused of abusing "at least seven children told cops he attacked even more kids - and claimed his tiny victims enjoyed the abuse, law enforcement sources said yesterday. 'I never forced them to do anything they didn't want to,

Bible Okay, God Not A study shows that high school teachers in Britain have found a way to teach Bible stories that suits them: excise all references to God. The prevailing rationale among the teachers for their hellish editing? They fear the pupils might find religious teaching too "boring,

Mere Censorship? Bobby Maddex at the Crux blogs writes this interesting post: "Our sister publication Touchstone received an interesting email yesterday from a high school teacher who could not access its blog Mere Comments [http://merecomments.typepad.com/] from work. Apparently, the school uses a security program called Bess

Z goes X? Has something screwy happened at Zondervan? Eric Scheske hasn't kept tabs on the publisher, but when he was a young Missouri Synod Lutheran, Zondervan was a respected publisher of solid Christian works (at least from the perspective of the teenage Scheske). Now this: "A