Obamacare was only passed because supporters cooked the cost books with false assumptions and accounting maneuvers. Now, the CBO has nearly doubled the estimate of Obamacare’s cost. From the Washington Examiner story:Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending . . . . Continue Reading »
Yehudah Mirsky, writing for Jewish Ideas Daily, explores why it took so long for Rabbi Heschel to take off in Israel In 1957 Heschel visited Israel for the first time. The transformative experience impressed on him Israel’s centrality to Jewish existence. Yet the “rebirth of . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion, Victorian England, and Us Pete Wehner, Commentary American Civil Religion, Liberty, and Mormonism Lee Trepanier & Lynita K. Newswander, Anamnesis Women’s Support for President Drops 12 Points Michelle Bauman , Catholic News Agency Progressive Inhumanity: The State . . . . Continue Reading »
Fordham’s Natural Law Colloquium will be offering a lecture on The Natural Law Origins of the American Right to Privacy by Anita L. Allen of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It will be held on Wednesday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the McNally . . . . Continue Reading »
While reading the Wall Street Journal review of journals by the English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, I was struck by the following: We learn in the “Wartime Journals” about the momentous day in Oxford when Trevor-Roper’s realization that he no longer needed to concern himself with . . . . Continue Reading »
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Atlantic Cities has an interesting history of The politics of Playgrounds . The first was created in San Francisco in 1887, with the first muncipal playground created in New York City in 1903. What the writer, Amanda Erickson, calls “the safety backlash,” began in 1912. She describes . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Santorum’s speech was a meandering missed opportunity. Again. I’m not a big fan of Michael Gerson, but this Gerson column is right on. Failure to put together a coherent speech is not a virtue. Reagan worked hard at communicating his ideas. . . . . Continue Reading »
An Italian human rights group has decided that the world would be bettered if we all would study and celebrate Dante’s Divine Comedy just a little less, reports the Guardian : Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante’s medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been . . . . Continue Reading »
Recent debates involving the Catholic Church have led to an eruption of the kind of legal and cultural vitriol against the faith not seen in this country for some time. So toxic has the climate become that one almost expects to see The Confessions of Maria Monk receive a glowing review in a trendy . . . . Continue Reading »
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