The New Moral Majority (UPDATED)

This frightening piece on the plans of conservative protestants to "prepare demands for the White House is grounded in interviews with figures including Richard Land. Note the part about changing the rules governing filibuster so that anti-abortion judges will be certain to get confirmed. From the Orlando Sentinal UPDATE: Wall Street Journal piece on evangelists' thought-out agenda.

Around the World News

It is a huge day for bioethics news.

Interesting non-U.S. perspective on the positioning of Bush and Kerry on embryonic stem cell research and abortion, finds that there is great confusion and deception in both campaigns.

Jakarta Post announces a national bioethics body for Indonesia.

They must love George in the U.K., where he has just attacked their stem cell policy, reports The Times London.

LifeNews reports that the Dutch law extending euthanasia to children is being attacked in several ways in public policy forums.

Pew Poll Out Today on Stem Cell Opinion

Pretty sophisticated polling data about changes in public opinion about politics and stem cells was released from Pew - this will figure in the next Presidential debate for sure. This from A.Caplan.

Denver Post on Bioethicist Marilyn Coors

Pete Coors is running for Senate in Colorado, and so once again his wife Marilyn is in the news as a career bioethicist. This profile is not a puff piece but nor is it especially in depth about Marilyn Coors' research. Coors discusses her role as scholar in relation to the role she would hold were Pete Coors elected.

The Ethics of George W. Bush

I will admit that I was a bit reticent about a quickie ethics book about Bush and his moral compass. Or perhaps jealous that one can do such a thing once one has tenure, even at Princeton. But an interview of Peter Singer in The Nation concerning his new The President of Good and Evil is pretty impressive, frankly one of the better attempts to put a moral philosopher back on the map of contemporary election-cycle politics.