The Culture Of Death*

*Image courtesy of AP Images.

The Culture of Death. With the signed order to open up previously untouchable embryonic stem cell lines and uncap federal funding for the same, it's clear that the Obama Administration is perfectly pleased to adopt this bit of nastiness from the far-left. And if you don't believe that, you might peruse a previous posting on the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius to HHS. The pieces are adding up.

And significantly, President Obama is doing this while taking a cheap shot at President Bush. You might remember the latter as the man who did much to elevate the embryonic stem cell argument to a lofty level of sophistication--scientifically and ethically--in an unarguably admirable manner. With this current set of ideologues, it seems cold, hard science will beat mere ethical considerations every time, so long as you can get over the fact that the two cannot reasonably be untangled.

No wonder Charles Krauthammer--a former member of the President's Council on Bioethics--found at least three reasons not to attend the signing.

BAD NEWS: Wow. And we wonder why anti-Semitism tends to take root.