The primary point of Obamacare is centralized control of health care, toward the end that costs be restricted. That means restrictions on services. And that means increased suffering for devalued populations, particularly the elderly and people with serious disabilities.The UK has again . . . . Continue Reading »
So we have the Great Ape Project, passed in Spain, that says humans and gorillas are part of a “community of equals,” and that none can be “tortured,” e.g., used in medical experiments. In this country, we have legislati0n pending that would outlaw all medical . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Science Monitor notes that Southern Baptists are among the denominations “’planting’ new churches in the rocky soil of secular New England”: In eight years, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has more than doubled its Vermont church count, from 17 to 37. Among . . . . Continue Reading »
A highwayside memorial. An American thing? Or just a southern? . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve alluded elsewhere to the fascinating way in which Obama parlayed his mixed African American (as opposed to African-American) heritage so as to occupy a space in American cultural and political life just ever-so-different from that occupied by black Americans generally and other black . . . . Continue Reading »
So, she said, I went to all the trouble to join the Knights of Malta, and all I got were these lousy earrings:Actually, they’re kind of likable.[Rating: 65 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
Megan , who’s started a dialogue with Ellen Ruppel Shell (author of the new book Cheap ), has some ruminations on the infamous maker of shelves with short shelf lives. Lots to digest, including some deee-lightful ancedotes from the bad old days of furniture so durable you seemed to be stuck . . . . Continue Reading »
By Robert Messenger: The cocktail is a lovely simple thing: a mixture of spirits and flavorings that whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the mind. It is one of our conspicuous contributions to cultured living, up there with the Great American Songbook and the tuxedo. Yet, like . . . . Continue Reading »
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has an online symposium on the always interesting and provocative Rémi Brague and his book The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea . From the first installment : The Law of God is Brague’s second magisterial work of intellectual history. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have warned about a coup de culture that is seeking to supplant human exceptionalism with utilitarianism, hedonism, and radical environmentalism, as the foundations of societal mores and law. In that regard, I have written here and elsewhere about how Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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