This is an article that was in the train newspaper today that got my attention: Mums kill their boys Women in Papua New Guinea's Highland region are killing their male babies to end a tribal fight that has raged for more than 20 years. Two women from the Eastern Highlands told PNG's National newspap...

This morning I had the somewhat unusual experience of Trench asking me if I wanted to run with a story. He knows this is a story that has chapped my ass for many years, so of course I had no trouble saying yes. It seems my favorite DSD (defective sperm donor, for those not familiar with the term) Ru...

"Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defen...

By Jill Stanek In March 2002, then IL state Sen. Barack Obama and I engaged in an interesting exchange during my testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member. I was speaking in favor of the IL Born Alive Infant Protection Act for the second time, which had failed the yea...

Obama's twisted mind is shown by looking at his sick State Senate voting record: SB485 (1999)Voted Yes to give offer of "Good Time" for sex offenders sentenced to county jail.*Obama was the only one voting yes SB709 (2000)Voted to allow state funding of abortion and induced miscarriages SB1661 (2002...

Time served and 5 years of probation given to Holly Ashcraft, 23, in the 2005 case of an infant found dead in a trash bin, after four attempts to charge her with murder were dismissed. After murder charges were dismissed four times, prosecutors finally gave up three years after the dead body of a ba...

This woman killed her five-year-old son, in a probable moment of pure folly. Italian justice is slow, inefficient, and baroque - you are supposed innocent until a third degree of judgement has been emitted - but in some cases it finishes its job. And in this case it did. I can now, without joy, writ...

Recently John H at the Boar's Head Tavern recommended as "superb" a post on "One Salient Oversight" about abortion. One Salient Oversight's take home message is, abortion rates are lowered by legalizing abortion and then implementing vigorous programs of sex education and unintended pregnancy preven...