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Conservative George Weigel at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute writes: This year, the pro-abortion candidate carried every state in what Maggie Gallagher calls the “Decadent Catholic Corridor” — the Northeast and the older parts of the Midwest. Too many Catholics there are still voting the way their grandparents did, and because that’s what their…

Will Saletan at Slate probes the mind-boggling possibility that scientists can recreate a Neanderthal. He suggests that scientists might be able to get around the central ethical questions — is it ok to clone a human? — by re-creating the Neanderthal primarily through manipulation of chimp DNA. That would make the creation an ape rather…

Does it strike anyone as odd that 11 of the 14 pardons that Bush has announced recently are in the South? The pardon recipients come from: Fort Worth, Texas Falls Church, Va. Rossville, Ga Travelers Rest, S.C.. Jacksonville, Fla.. Midland, Texas Sulphur, Okla. Grant, Ala., Los Angeles, Ca. Conroe, Texas White Hall, Ark. Charleston, Mo…

Prop 8 is often cast as a battle between gay rights groups and religious groups (Mormons, evangelicals, Catholics, etc). But I’m reminded by this note from a leader of the pro-gay marriage forces in Massachusetts that in her state the pro-marriage clergy played a crucial role — and in California, not so much. The Reverend…
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