Alex Chediak

In an article entitled Mommy Wants Her Body Back, Newsweek magazine recently reported that "More older women are getting breast surgery than ever before, in the hopes of reclaiming their pre-pregnancy figures." But the phenomenon is also growing among younger women, with some parents willing to provide cosmetic surgery as a graduation or prom gift, as Dr. Albert Mohler and a Today's Christian Woman roundtable have noted. That reminded me of a concerning story I just heard the other day: a group of women in their 40's, 50's, and 60's chose to pose immodestly for a 2008 calendar whose proceeds … [Read more...] about The Rising Popularity of Plastic Surgery: A Concerning Trend

I'm trying not to blog too much on Romney vs. Huckabee. This is the Christmas season, and there are plenty of other things going on besides Republican primary politics. But I find the recent Newsweek article on Romney's false and misleading attack ads compelling. Let me explain. For better or for worse, negative attacks are effective in political battles, particularly when used in the latter stages of a tight race. The key, it seems, is to identify your opponent with weakness on a certain issue: Willy Horton effectively eliminated Michael Dukakis in 1988, who was thereby branded as being … [Read more...] about Romney Attacks Huckabee with False, Misleading Claims

Time Magazine has named Vladamir Putin, Russia's President for almost eight years, Person of the Year for 2007: "No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking. The affect is now seamless, which makes talking to the Russian President not just exhausting but often chilling. It's a gaze that says, I'm in charge." I won't be able to read the whole thing until … [Read more...] about Vladamir Putin – TIME Magazine Person of the Year