Month: April 2019
The Night that Life went down to Georgia
Georgia’s Senate has just passed HB 481, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, which would make it illegal to abort – murder – an unborn child once a foetal heartbeat was detected. One would think in a sane age this would be obvious, with no need of an explicit law, but in a telling[…]
Death of a Pope and a Floating Friar
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II, who displayed in his final years, months and especially days his truly heroic soul, as well as the value, even the joy, of redemptive and ‘salvific suffering’ (Salvifici Doloris) on which he had written so eloquently 21 years earlier, on the[…]
Carbon Taxes and Legging Freedom
The infamous and unjust ‘carbon tax’ begins today, foisting an extra 5 cents a litre on every fill-up. The purpose for this imposition is to coerce us hoi polloi to use less gas, and hence reduce our ‘emissions’, and hence contribute less to ‘global warming’. Ideas – even manifestly dubious ones as anthropogenic climate change[…]