I love dogs and cats as much as most and have loved my pets deeply. But they are not children and shouldn’t be treated as if they were under the law. Now, a bill has been tossed in the hopper that would grant tax deductions for the expenses of caring for pets. From the story:Should you . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Sean Winters has put up a post on NCR Online that is a rebuttal to a Deal Hudson commentar y on abortion and the public option. Winters demonstrates that he is either wholly ignorant of the legislative and judicial process, or that he puts support for Obamacare ahead of opposition to . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month in the Wall Street Journal , Thomas Frank proffered an interesting claim —he doesn’t flesh it out enough to be an argument—that the left needs to reclaim the concept of freedom from the grasp of the right: People working the freedom vein were numerous at the large protest . . . . Continue Reading »
Be prepared. Meanwhile, if you haven’t already, read The Anchoress on the brown scapular and avoid any Black Swan Events. Be well. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here. And here. And here. And more. And also here. Not for sale, but beautiful to behold. . . . . Continue Reading »
Is there no bottom to our moral decline? A woman has written a memoir telling how she got pregnant on purpose fifteen times, and then aborted the babies . This isn’t a matter of law. It is an illustration of the hedonism of our times. It is a matter of basic morality and the casting . . . . Continue Reading »
Is abortion a moral issue? I say yes. The unborn child is a living human being, albeit in the developing stage. Some say no, that the fetus is no more meaningful morally than a tumor. Indeed, a few have called it a parasite.Those who think abortion is no big deal may still be bothered by this . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 2007, former Robert Reich told an audience at UC Berkeley what an “honest” presidential candidate would tell the country that health care reform would require.First, young people will have to pay more for their health insurance. No question there under Obamacare, because . . . . Continue Reading »
Last August the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator in Europe, was set to begin smashing protons together in the hope of producing the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs particle is considered the missing link in the commonly accepted model of physics, so physicists were quite . . . . Continue Reading »
Now, many people who keep the porch light on at Halloween like to hand out items other than candy. Once, as a newlywed, I gravely underestimated how many mini Almond Joys my neighborhood’s population of pirates and Smurfettes was going to require, and was reduced to handing out pennies. These . . . . Continue Reading »
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