The clip below requires a little unpacking: In answering a flip, but it turns out quite good, question about “death panels,” Paul Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by Obamacare will be able to impose “more or less binding . . . . Continue Reading »
This month marks six years since I left the Marine Corps. Although I love being a Marine I can honestly say that I don’t miss active duty. In fifteen years of service I sat on the sidelines during three separate wars, and like most Marines, being away from the action drove me insane. Although . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is a good day to reflect on these words of wisdom from our founder and friend, the late (and great) Fr. Richard John Neuhaus: Good Friday is not just one day of the year. It is a day relived in every day of the world, and of our lives in the world. In the Christian view of things, all reality . . . . Continue Reading »
And the winner is . . . Lord of the Rings By a margin of 9 to 1, LOTR beat The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn —and 62 other contenders—to win the first annual Tournament of Novels. Thanks to everyone that participated. Beginning next February we’ll take nominations to determine the . . . . Continue Reading »
The people and their leaders all took Jesus to Pilate and began to bring up charges against him. They said, “We found this man undermining our law and order, forbidding taxes to be paid to Caesar, setting himself up as Messiah-King.”Pilate asked him, “Is this true that you’re . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning I posted an essay on the Jewish webzine Tablet explaining how my neo-conservative friends (and they are my friends) blew it on the Middle East. By promoting nation-building in the Middle East, the Jewish right wing left themselves vulnerable to the “linkage argument” — . . . . Continue Reading »
Among the undercurrents of Church journalism over the past week is a clear desire among news providers to connect dots within the Church—sometimes where the case for neither a connection nor a dot can be made. An article in the Los Angeles Times yesterday hearkened back to the shameful story . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Leonard R. Klein on the Eucharist : I recently read an article in which a Methodist minister referred to the Eucharist as “revolutionary.” It would be easy to dismiss her use of a term used to advertise a new shampoo or safety razor. But the claim that the Eucharist is revolutionary . . . . Continue Reading »
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