Month: June 2013

In Abortion in Ireland I gave a brief account of the background to various attempts to make abortion illegal in Ireland in all circumstances by introducing a constitutional right to life for the unborn. These attempts failed...

Twenty weeks from today it will be October 30th. Is that six months from now? June is the sixth month of the year. October is the tenth. October 30th is four months and eighteen days from now. So, if you were to get pregnant...

It’s interesting to look at Liz Sly’s Washington Post piece on the situation in Syria and how it is benefiting Iran. There is a subtlety about it, but it defines the war in Syria as basically a proxy war between Iran...

I’d like to note for the record that torturing people makes it impossible to prosecute them without running sham trials that undermine public confidence in the government. One of the main reasons we haven’t closed...

During the trial of Kermit Gosnell, I saw a lot of criticism of the left for its inattention. I was somewhat confused by it. I had read about Gosnell when he was arrested, but the details were so disgusting that I never looked...