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 »
Strange times: We diet to narrow our waists, but we think our sexual desires fixed and unalterable. . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Pence, in an earlier thread, implied that certain mainstream Judeo-Christian sects did not share the same faith that evangelicals consistently exhibit. I believe he is correct in his observations and hope that he might pursue the question. At the core of the modern problem of faith, both public . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day, President Obama referenced the Netherlands as a splendid example of how the “public option,” that is a government plan, worked well with a private system. To The Source contacted me and asked me to reflect on the president’s use of that particular example.First, the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a blog concerned with the material culture of religion, and as a general rule, I don’t write about politics. I do, however, write about weirdness. And there’s something about the saga of my hometown mayor which attains to the level of — well, at least of the voodoo products . . . . Continue Reading »
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