Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, has a column out pushing universal Medicare that fundamentally fails to grapple with reality in making the case. He admits Medicare is breaking the bank and then chides President Obama for relying on the (unnamed) Medicare . . . . Continue Reading »
A Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR), is not the same thing as a “do not treat” request, although there is sometimes confusion in that regard. It simply means that if the patient has a cardiac arrest, the medical team (or nursing home personnel) are instructed to not try and revive the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian Hospital and its doctors have much to explain. Stating that a tracheotomy was not in Baby Joseph’s interests, and wishing to pull him off life extending care, they clearly decided that the time had come for Joseph to die. But his parents wanted to take him home with them to die . . . . Continue Reading »
Today we think about an event that was not only the result of evil, but also the reason for allowing evil to exist in the first place. That event is the revealing of the perfection and beauty of God’s grace and righteousness through the demonstration of both on the cross:For all have sinned . . . . Continue Reading »
Oncology has an important article out that every media writer should read. Reporters ubiquitously write or speak of euthanasia as having “tight safeguards” against abuse. They don’t work—and I submit they are not supposed to, but rather, are there merely to give the illusion . . . . Continue Reading »
The Phoenix case of the mentally ill woman assisted in suicide by Final Exit Network zealots—what else would you call people who aided a mentally ill person kill themselves with helium instead of calling in suicide prevention?—ended in a not guilty verdict for the distant leader of the . . . . Continue Reading »
This month marks seven years since I left the Marine Corps. Although I love being a Marine I can honestly say that I don’t miss active duty. In fifteen years of service I sat on the sidelines during three separate wars, and like most Marines, being away from the action drove me insane. . . . . Continue Reading »
If you are not God, you only make the Creed if your God’s mother or his murderer. That means it is great to be Mary, but not so great to be Pontius Pilate.Call no man happy until history decides his role. Pilate was well known for most of his life and Mary obscure. Even at death, the relative . . . . Continue Reading »
As my good friend Peter Lawler would say, ” studies show ” that students who believe in a “harsh, punitive, vengeful, and punishing” God are less likely to cheat on a test than are non-believers or students who believe in a “loving, caring, and forgiving” God. . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an interesting article in The New Republic about why the Greens failed politically across the board in the last two years. From “Blame Game: Has the Green Movement Been a Miserable Flop?”What the hell went wrong? For months now, environmentalists have been asking . . . . Continue Reading »
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