We left our South Dakota refuge in the Black Hills to venture out on the prairie, driving across to Pierre this weekend to visit my grandmother. The rain has been good this year, and the plains have a kind of austere beauty that tugs a little at my memories: But then I remember how hard life is on . . . . Continue Reading »
I used to be a supporter of a Canadian style single payer health care plan for the USA. Then, I began spending time in Canadia and found out it doesn’t work well at all. This ad is effective, because from what I have seen, it is true.The woman’s name is Shona Holmes. She is suing . . . . Continue Reading »
The new issue of Poetry Magazine is dedicated to two new “movements” in American poetry: Flarf and Conceptual Writing. I use quotation marks around the word movements because I think the word gimmick is more accurate. Unfortunately, I can’t use the word gimmick. You see, . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming may or may not exist—I suspect not, at least not of the earth-flooding-bake-caused-by-us kind—but the gas emissions from its advocates among the hyper-elites show that the real game afoot is massive income redistribution in the name of science. Latest example . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Catholicism—indeed, any religiosity—in the current generation of young adults rediscovered by the young rather than a gift from the old? I was thinking again this morning about Bob Miola’s beautiful essay (subscription required) about the entrance of first one and then a . . . . Continue Reading »
The last line of defense for some suicidal people is the dedicated mental health professional committed to helping their patient stay alive through profound darkness and pain. But a subversive movement within psychiatry, psychology, and social work holds that only “irrational” suicides . . . . Continue Reading »
What’s more harmful to the general public than the sex, violence, and general debauchery that pervades YouTube? Apparently, a twenty-year-old woman exposing Planned Parenthood’s bad habit of covering up statutory rape . . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Howard at City Journal points out that improving the quality of healthcare, while a noble and worthwhile goal, won’t save anyone any money, so we shouldn’t pretend that it will: President Obama has made many promises about his health-reform agenda, but none looms larger than: . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t normally frequent the anarcho-syndicalist enclaves of the blogosphere, but my curiosity was piqued by the ongoing saga of the “Tarnac 9” , whose penchant for absurdism combined with neo-Benedictinism is at least somewhat endearing. As it happens, the now-released . . . . Continue Reading »
Reuven Brenner will be on Relevant Radio’s “Morning Air” today at 8:30 a.m EST/ 7:30 a.m. CST to discuss his article ” The Rule of Law and the Wealth of Nations .” The audio will be archived on RelevantRadio.com under the archives for the second hour. . . . . Continue Reading »
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