The Feds are apparently planning a mass inoculation drive to vaccinate people against the Swine Flu. From the story:Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for . . . . Continue Reading »
Please don’t think I’m a Strauss-obsessed geek. I just thought you’d like to read the latest version of my talk for the American Political Science Association meeting to be held in Canada. In his essay on Kurt Riezler, Strauss writes “If we are permitted to say that . . . . Continue Reading »
Not a good way to fight the “death panel” charge: A column in the Wall Street Journal discloses that the Obama Administration has quietly reinstated an end of life counseling pamphlet that the Bush Administration had stopped distributing. Apparently it pushes voluntary plug . . . . Continue Reading »
It all depends what the meaning of “is,” is.Is Jesus the Messiah now? Bloody unlikely. Whether your political rogue du jour is Obama or Palin, politicians lie, the elderly and sick die (panels or no panels), wars arise and end with predictable pace; how long does this ellipsis have . . . . Continue Reading »
Former Senator Tom Daschle was supposed to be our Secretary of Health and Human Services. But then, it turned out he had not paid all his taxes, and so he remains a private citizen, or better stated, an influential private citizen who still has President Obama’s ear on health care. . . . . Continue Reading »
Popular support for Obamacare is collapsing, due in part to fears that the House Bill’s end-of-life counseling provision for Medicare patients could become a means of pushing seniors into voluntary rationing, that is, into refusing life-sustaining treatment toward the end of saving . . . . Continue Reading »
The wife and I have a Netflix deal where we get two movies, mail them back, and get two more. I don’t know who came up with the idea but surely the dude’s a millionaire . . . talk about convenient! However, in the spirit of complete disclosure you sometimes get a disc that is so used . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are my thoughts on the latest papal encyclical, Caritas in Veritate . . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t usually repost material from my little “Inner Workings” blog over at Asia Times Online, but I couldn’t resist this item, as it bears on the overall political situation and the position of the administration. It’s all part of making the US a banana republic.Stock . . . . Continue Reading »
Mike Huckabee on evangelicals’ support for Israel : “There’s great division within the American Jewish Community about the level of support for Israel,” he went on. “I think they all support Israel, want to see it succeed. But you’ll find people all over the board . . . . Continue Reading »
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