It’s a war crime to take hostages. It’s a war crime to hide them in hospitals. It’s a war crime to conduct military operations and/or terrorist operations from a hospital. Hamas does this regularly, the world knows it, and the … Continue reading →
Naama Levy was the young woman last seen in a video, being dragged away by terrorists and with the crotch area of her pants bloodied. Here is some slightly encouraging news, courtesy of the freed hostages: In addition to all … Continue reading →
Many years before I stated blogging, I used to write little essays on this and that. I had no reliable venue for distributing them, but I wrote them anyway. One was based on some article I’d read that reported on … Continue reading →
… and I’m out west, visiting family. I almost always catch a cold when I visit my grandkids. It goes with the territory. But it’s worth it.
Continue reading →I’ve been going to my doctor – let’s call him Dr. X – for about twenty years now, and I really really like him. That may not sound so unusual, but for me it is, because I have always loathed … Continue reading →
Our humane and friendly neighbor to the north: [In 2015] Canada’s highest court determined that assisted suicide would be ethical only “with respect to voluntary adults who are competent, informed, grievously and irremediably ill,” and only when it would be … Continue reading →
This is chilling: Lehigh County, Pa., is on fire right now with the outrage of at least 70 families who are on a mission to have Dr. Debra Esernio-Jenssen, a “child abuse pediatrician,” fired from Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) … Continue reading →
I saw two encouraging signs today. The first is this story about a lawsuit against an “anti-racism” DEI trainer because of a suicide that occurred in Canada. Here’s the story in a nutshell: Kike Ojo-Thompson, a Toronto-based diversity trainer and … Continue reading →
They’re the homeless, right? So they need housing, right? Only problem is that “homeless,” once a relatively descriptive term, has become only the tip of the iceberg of the problems of the “homeless” – now often referred to by the … Continue reading →
I know such a person. In a conversation with a friend the other day I was gobsmacked to hear her claim to have never had a stomach ache or a digestive upset of any kind. She’s in her 70s, by … Continue reading →
And a supposedly non-addictive one. Of course, many painkillers that ended up being addictive were originally touted as non-addictive, so I would be cautious. On the other hand, this drug works through a different mechanism: The pill, known for now … Continue reading →
Border collies are attractive dogs – but there’s a limit. If a person wants to be one, for example, I think we can safely say that a line has been crossed. I first saw the story at Instapundit, with the … Continue reading →