So, here’s the problem: We have need for health care reform to permit greater portability of policies, make policies more affordable, and help people find insurance who have preexisting conditions. But instead of fixing the actual problems in the current generally well working system, . . . . Continue Reading »
As the only two certainties in life, we shouldn’t be surprised to find that both death and taxes share a mutual connection: Sin. While death usually make for more interesting reading, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a thought-provoking discussion of “sin taxes” in his post ” . . . . Continue Reading »
We are told by some that the “clash of civilizations” between the West and the Islamic world is not really a clash between civilizations but a clash within the Islamic world itself. This is really a fight for “authentic Islam” between the Islamists and, for lack of a better . . . . Continue Reading »
Not perfect, by any means, but a surprisingly sensible take on the Gospel of Judas in the New Yorker : “The answer is not to fix the Bible but to fix ourselves.” . . . . Continue Reading »
File this under the radical company Obama keeps. Decades before Cass Sunstein, the nominated regulations czar, proposed that animals be allowed to sue their owners , the science adviser supported trees being given legal standing to sue in order to improve the environment! More over at . . . . Continue Reading »
Just when you thought that the high advisers to President Obama couldn’t get any more radical. Consider: Cass Sunstein, his nominated regulations czar, wants animals to be able to sue their owners and has asserted that the lives of elderly people should be given less value in government . . . . Continue Reading »
Noted Neuro-Buddhist Sam Harris has this to say about the President’s choice to head the NIH: Dr. Collins has written that “science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence” and that “the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly . . . . Continue Reading »
So I wrote up a talk at the ISI Honors Program on “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” Even the part I actually gave was way too long. And here’s part of the introduction that I had to cut. I will get around to posting some of the other parts soon. Are human beings fundamentally . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s our Latin Mass day. Typically we go to Mass at noon, and then we stay at church all day, because there’s Holy Hour at six, and friends of ours who drive an hour to Mass don’t bother to go home in between services. They bring picnic lunches and schoolwork and make a day of . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first go ’round, Neill v. Bullseye Collection Agency promised to be one of the weirdest, most interesting cases in recent years. A collection agency was putting WWJD? —What Would Jesus Do?—in the upper corner of its dunning letters, and a couple named Mark and Sara Neill sued, . . . . Continue Reading »
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