Sarah Palin is communicating these days on Facebook. Yesterday, she weighed in on Obamacare—worrying about its rationing implications, certainly a legitimate concern. But she used incendiary and frankly, amateur-sounding terms like “death boards” and . . . . Continue Reading »
The handwriting is on the wall everywhere you look about universal health care: If you provide almost all things medical to all people, you are going to have a fiscal crisis. That’s just common sense. No matter how eloquently our president tries to pretend otherwise, . . . . Continue Reading »
Cards on the table, since those who dare even to broach this subject are inevitably subjected to name-calling. The ” collapsing consensus ” notwithstanding, I’m among those who believe that the earth is getting warmer, that human beings probably have something to do with it, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Palin has weighed in against Obamacare, worrying that centralized control over what is (and is not) covered could result in rationing against the most weak and vulnerable. From the story:Palin, in her first policy statement since resigning as Alaska governor, wrote on her Facebook page . . . . Continue Reading »
In May 2009 the Bishop of Paisley, Rt Rev Philip Tartaglia, issued a pastoral letter — read aloud to every parish in Scotland — cautioning Catholics against an obsessive reliance upon new technology : “In dialogue with others we need to be wary of the inane chatter that can go on . . . . Continue Reading »
An intriguing new Gallup survey reveals that the religious identification for most states tends to match the immigration patterns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The distribution of Catholics across the states, for example, is heavily skewed toward the New England and Mid-Atlantic . . . . Continue Reading »
Asia Times Online today has a guest column by one Raja Karthikeya arguing in full seriousness that war between Iran and Pakistan is possible. He writes,Far from the headlines of the mainstream media, the border between Iran and Pakistan is heating up to epic proportions. In recent months, . . . . Continue Reading »
David Goldman has a very interesting take on the meaning of Obama’s lowering approval rating over at Spengler : The fact that Obama’s approval rating fell slightly below the 50% mark in one of the polls looked to some Republicans like a green shoot of political recovery. I do not . . . . Continue Reading »
A note apropos of the important comments down here by Professors Deneen and McAllister . It’s true, as Prof. McAllister says, that “The tendency of theorists to declare is then made stronger in a blog format, as is the tendency to divide people into camps” — true too of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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