Between life and death

A Montreal couple is suing a hospital for not allowing their brain-damaged newborn to die. The outcome will deliver important messages about attitudes towards the disabled.
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Alumni campaign to withhold funds from Notre Dame

A new Notre Dame alumni coalition is gathering support in an effort to withhold donations until the university’s president, Father John Jenkins, is replaced.
The campaign is part of a protest launched in response to the university’s decision to honor the U.S. President at this year’s commencement ceremony.
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A post-modernist looks at conscientious objection and decides he doesn’t care for it very much

I think it is fair to say that Professor Fish is a fan of President Obama. After the inauguration speech, for instance, his column concluded “In the years to come” literary analysis of Obama’s prose “will be expanded and elaborated in a thousand classrooms. Canonization has already arrived.”
So it came as no surprise when Fish [...]

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Americanist Universities

“A coup,” former Newsweek religion editor Ken Woodward, a longtime Notre Dame booster, called it in the Washington Post. Yes, but a coup on behalf of what? In case you weren’t looking, Obama is the most aggressively pro-abortion president we’ve ever had.
Defenders of Notre Dame make the irrelevant point that a university ought to welcome [...]

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Smacking laws were never about the real issue of child abuse

As a mother of two young children, I resent the constant barrage that fully funded, power-packed organisations such as the Families Commission can constantly deliver from their lofty soap-boxes.
One can be left wondering who represents mums like me who are focused on the task of raising good, law-abiding and positive contributors to society. Like many [...]

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