By the President of the United States of AmericaAProclamationThe season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our people, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise and thanksgiving to God. This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Donald Berwick has resigned as the head of Medicare. From the Boston Globe story:Don Berwick, the Harvard professor who was tapped by the Obama administration to lead the overhaul of the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs, resigned today — just months before he was scheduled to leave . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I don’t think the immigration issue hurts Gingrich in sort of a complicated way. Gingrich voted for amnesty in 1986. Now he supports another kind of limited amnesty. He can talk all he wants about red cards and American-born grandkids, he is still going to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Many have observed that the Occupy Wall Street movement contains various strains, united perhaps only by a certain anger at those who are said to be profiting at “our” expense in these hard times. Nonetheless, a number of obvious themes emerge from observing the Occupiers in action and . . . . Continue Reading »
A new Kaiser Permanente study shows that HIV infection adds dramatically to the risk of getting cancer (in addition to AIDS). From the San Francisco Chronicle story:People with HIV infections have a higher risk of developing certain cancers than those who aren’t infected, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , George Weigel explains the need to downsize the Catholic Church in Ireland: Catholicism is in crisis all over Old Europe. Nowhere is that crisis more pronounced than in Ireland, where clerical corruption and disastrous episcopal leadership have collided with . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the basic schema I laid out in #26 : 1) quasi-modernity –approximately 1776 to 1918 2) intermediate modernity –approximately 1919 to 1965 3) full modernity –approximately 1966 to the present. Now, for some flesh upon these analytic bones. Everyone knows WWI and the 20s . . . . Continue Reading »
Frustrations with men and the institution of marriage are real, says Jennifer Marshall , but shouldn’t obscure our hope in what God is doing. [Kate Bolick] is one of countless women who have struggled with the unexpected in-between of prolonged singleness. “If I stopped seeing my . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my Augustinian Thanksgiving message. After the most recent debate, it’s clear that the only plausible candidates are Newt and Romney. I continue believe that Newt is hugely vulnerable to any real examination of his record in the broadest sense, but we’ll see. I agree with . . . . Continue Reading »
Today President Obama performs the annual light-hearted tradition of the turkey pardon. But behind the fluff is a chillingly stingy record of pardons for actual, you know, people . Brandon Watson lays it out: [T]he Office of the President has over the past several administrations been absurdly . . . . Continue Reading »
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