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In which a boy who looks like he’s 8 and doesn’t know the word “financial” becomes a father. Watch the video.

We’ve been discussing for the past week a variety of ethical questions related to Nadya Suleman’s octuplets. Should a woman who can barely handle six, get another eight? Should the clinic have agreed? What rights did the father/sperm-donor have? What’s been surprisingly missing from the debate is a strong pro-life voice against the entire fertility…

Ok, Lincoln’s much, much deeper than Smalley — but I’m surprised at how well the Great Emancipator works as an Inspirational Quote Machine. A few: “When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” “We can complain that rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice that…

The Democrats have been so busy defending federal spending, and denigrating the stimulative power of tax cuts, that they apparently either forgot to — or felt they couldn’t — point out something rather dramatic: the tax cuts in this stimulus plan appear to be the biggest in history. The compromise stimulus plan includes $282 billion…

The Vatican embraces Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution as fully compatible with Christianity. The Church of England honors its former member. (His parish, in which he was active during his early life, pictured above) And we are thus reminded that evolution is not really a challenge against God or Christianity even, it’s a challenge to…

Amy Welborn, one of the most gifted religion bloggers on the internet, lost her husband, Michael Dubruiel last week. He died on the treadmill at the gym. Two little boys. They’d just moved to Alabama for his new job. The tragedy of it is beyond comprehension for me. Brilliant essayist that she is, Amy has…

Mike Huckabee says the stimulus package is….anti-religion. Jay Sekulow provides the grist for the charge. Barry Lynn says it’s an entirely fabricated non-scandal. I look forward to Jay’s response over at Lynn v. Sekulow UPDATE: As I understand it, the provision prevents construction dollars from renovating building of primarily a religious nature. That means federal…

I was recently telling a Democratic friend about Obama’s abortion balancing act. One day he repeals the Mexico City “gag rule” delighting pro-choice activists. The next week he seems intent on making it up to pro-life voters, announcing that one priority of a new faith-based council will be reducing the need for abortion. My friend…

I was half kidding a few months ago when I suggested Islamic sharia law to shape up the stock exchange. It turns out I wasn’t far off. Apparently, Islamic investment funds have beaten the market of late. The two Amana Growth and Income funds beat the S&P 500 by 13% and 7% respectively. The San…

I didn’t know this: the octuplets father apparently, wanted to get married: Angela Suleman said Nadya’s boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him. “He was in love with her and wanted to marry her,” she said. “But Nadya wanted to have children on her own.” It’s…
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