Thabo Mbeki: AIDS Dissident

In his new memoir, Thabo Mbeki expresses regret over backing down to his critics for his views on the AIDS virus. You may recall that a few years back Mbeki questioned the prevailing scientific theories on the spread of AIDS in Africa.Mr Gevisser recounts how Mr Mbeki phoned him late on a Saturday evening [...]

Warehousing Humans

Hat tip: Dina
I (J) just drafted my will. It was an interesting exercise in the orderly planning of my own demise. One thing I made clear is that I don’t want to be a burden on my children. No depletion of financial assets to keep me hooked up to tubes, etc. In this article, Rick [...]

High School Newspaper Conducts Race Survey

Students at City High School in Iowa City (the red dot) were inspired to do a special article in their school newspaper after watching coverage of the Jena 6 protest. They asked, quite simply, “My view toward black students is generally: favorable, neutral, unfavorable.” They asked the same question about white students, gay-lesbian-transgender [...]

Put Down Your Bible: The Scripture Is Dead

And Jesus answered: “Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses received not his laws from God in writing, but through the living word. The law is living word of living God to living prophets for living men. In everything that [...]