The Immorality of Coerced Organ Procurement

'Breaking the Will of the Palestinians' by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review Online

Seeded on Tue Jan 6, 2009 7:45 PM EST (National Review Online)

The war of aggression waged by Hamas, against which Israel has commenced a robust response, must not be seen in a vacuum. Hamas is an agent of radical Islam's revolutionary jihad. Israel, the "little Satan," is a proxy of Western modernity.

israel, palestinians, world-news

Insight into Obama's Middle East Policy? :: Daniel Pipes

Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 4:26 PM EST (Daniel Pipes)

its specialists have almost nothing to say about Islamism, the most pressing ideological challenge of our time, nor about the Iranian nuclear buildup, the most urgent military danger of our time.

hamas, world-news, liberals

The Claremont Institute - Understanding the Need for a National Missile Defense After 9/11

Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 12:08 AM EST (Brian T. Kennedy, Claremont Institute President)

On September 11, our nation's enemies attacked us using hijacked airliners. Next time, the vehicles of death and destruction might well be ballistic missiles armed with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads.

technology, national, defense, missile

International Law and the Fighting in Gaza

Seeded on Thu Jan 1, 2009 6:49 PM EST (JCPA)

This is a scholarly briefing and background paper that discusses the conflict in Gaza in the context of international law.

terrorism, international-law, world-news

Our First Amendment Rights Online » The Foundry

Seeded on Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:44 PM EST (The Heritage Foundation)

China has been rightly criticized for censoring speech on the Internet. It is the one major economy in which the government has denied free speech and free access online. But this could change if the Orwellian-sounding "Minister of Culture" in Britain gets his way.

internet, free-speech, world-news, censorship

Why Detroit Has an Especially Bad Union Problem

Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:11 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

How is it that successful executives become so unsuccessful as soon as they move to Detroit? Also, how can we explain that whenever GM, Ford and Chrysler leave our shores, they compete well in foreign markets as varied as Europe, South America and China? What makes them viable co …

the, politics, uaw

AEI - Obama's "Green Jobs" Plan Will Not Work

Seeded on Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:31 PM EST (American Enterprise Institute)

There may be good reasons to switch from existing energy sources to renewable. But President-elect Barack Obama's energy plans have significant costs. His energy promises rely on questionable science and even more questionable economics.

politics, obama, energy-plan-follies

U.S. Criticizes World Health Organization "Fact Sheet"

Seeded on Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:12 AM EST (Global Governance Watch)

From the good folks at NGO watch, who monitor the self-appointed, unelected, wannabe rulers of the world

human, rights, world-news

HHS Conscience Clause Regulation: Securing the Blessings of Liberty » The Foundry

Seeded on Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:31 AM EST (The Heritage Foundation)

The Bush Administration finally secures freedom of conscience status for health care professionals to refuse to participate in abortions.

health, freedom

Catholic Orthodoxy and opposition to Organ transplants

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:24 PM EST (Essay, The Tragic Sense of Life, De Unamuno, Migue)

The Spanish philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno, author of Tragic Sense of Life, explains the Catholic orthodox objection to organ transplantation:

health, organ-transplantation, immorality

Gordon Brown and forced organ donations

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:40 PM EST (Telegraph)

...as he told The Sunday Telegraph yesterday, he is throwing his weight fully behind a proposal that the organs of the recently deceased should automatically be donated for transplant unless the cadaver had earlier registered its objections.

organ, health, donation, forced

Docs Accused Of Hurrying Death To Harvest Organs

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:05 PM EST (Arts & Living from Newser)

A 47-year-old man was wrongly declared brain dead by two doctors apparently eager to harvest his organs, reports the LA Times. "They were waiting like vultures, so they could scoop them up," says the patient's daughter, Melanie Sanchez.

organ, health, harvesting, illegal

Doctor Accused Of Stealing Organs On Trial, Calif. Surgeon Charged With Hastening Patient's Death To Harvest His Body Parts - CBS News

Seeded on Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:30 AM EST (CBS News)

Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a San Francisco transplant surgeon is accused of hastening Navarro's death so his organs could be harvested.

organ, health, human, trafficking

Long Island widow says doctors snatched dead husband's brain

Seeded on Mon Dec 8, 2008 7:16 PM EST (NY Daily News)

Purifoy died in his Long Island home two years ago, and after doctors got through with him, his brain was missing and nobody would tell his widow what happened to it, she claims.

organ, science, trafficking