Over a week ago, the WaPo ran this lengthy piece on Sarah Scantlin, severely injured in an accident twenty years ago, Sarah, lying in this bed nearly 20 years, brain-damaged, blank, speechless, immobile, staring out the same window. Couldn’t talk to the people who came to talk to her. Couldn’t say change the channel. Couldn’t…

Christopher Hitchens, Ramesh Ponnuru and Peter Robinson were trading volleys all day at The Corner. I’m too tired to comment, but oh, Hitchens: It applies, in other words, to those who have never heard of Catholicism. I am not sufficiently fortunate to be of that number: ergo there is at least in this case nothing…

The AP story that’s running on the bishops’ letter to the Japanese bishops on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki implies that the bishop is writing that the dropping of the bomb was the equivalent to a contemporary terrorist act. "U-S bishop compares atomic bombing of Hiroshima to terrorism today " is…

Carl Olson and Barbara Nicolosi have both blogged on their interactions with Sharon Waxman, the NYTimes reporter who wrote this piece on the DVC movie and the Christian audience. My exchange was very pleasant – Barbara had scared me a little, because she was interviewed first and told me about it,  but bomb-throwing didn’t come…

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