JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Something has definitely gone awry at Britain’s Royal Mail headquarters. Though this news may be old to some, I just learned that one of its new postage stamps will bear a picture of the racist/eugenicist Marie Stopes.

Over the past several years, I have noticed that there is no television program quite as popular as American Idol. In fact, it has become so engrained in the psyche that even many Europeans equate what happens on that show with what America is all about.

Yesterday, as our nation was reminded of the vicious terrorist acts resulting in the tragic destruction of many innocent human lives seven short years ago, I had to reflect on the import of this particular day in the life of our nation.

In a recent edition of her e-newsletter update, Julie Grimstad, executive director of Life is Worth Living, Inc., a pro-life lay apostolate, discusses a recent medical journal article that was originally brought to our attention by LifeSiteNews.com.

I have just finished looking at the latest advertisement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, entitled “Science is moving on.

It has come as a surprise to some that the Pontifical Academy for Life is co-hosting a November 2008 conference with the theme A Gift for Life.

At a young age, many women start imagining who their Prince Charming will be: what he’ll look like, what interests he’ll have, if he’ll have a sense of humor and so forth.

I don’t know how this nation continues to move forward when so many grisly things are occurring right under our noses and are being paid for with taxpayer dollars.

I don’t know about you, but if I hear one more promise of change, it may be the straw that ends my association with newspapers and television until after the first week of November.

When a friend told me about the Science Olympiad, my first reaction was that this is a wonderful way to get young people into the habit of thinking for themselves, enjoying the pursuit of scientific inquiry and generally exploring areas that might otherwise be unattractive to them.

The California legislature has decided that the state should push patients to choose being put to death as their preferred healthcare option. That is the way I read the “Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act”, also known as Assembly Bill 2747.

When you look up the word bop in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, you find that, when used as a verb, the word is defined as “hit” or “sock.”