President Obama told 60 Minutes his policies weren’t rejected by the American people on Tuesday. It was just poor communication. From the story:After suffering a “shellacking” in the midterm elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness – . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study is out that seems to show that medical care for older Americans—of increasing interest to me!—is better than for oldsters in the UK. From the story in Science Daily:Researchers found that while Americans aged 55 to 64 have higher rates of chronic diseases than their . . . . Continue Reading »
A selection of eastern saints recognized in both the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, though they lived after the Great Schism of 1054. Nearly half of Americans don’t think Daylight Savings Time worth the hassle . 11% think they should turn their clocks forward on Sunday. The greatest number . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, Richard Stith has an i mportant short article on the front page of our website. He points out that, except for government programs for the poor, our old forms of health insurance, ones that were based more clearly on free market principles, had fairly expansive coverage of elective . . . . Continue Reading »
Our assistant editor Kevin Staley-Joyce sends a reminder of a website at which you can find a lot of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s articles, interviews with him, and open letters he wrote, as well as a long list of articles about him and reviews of his books. Go to the Richard John Neuhaus . . . . Continue Reading »
Thabiti Anyabwile has a good post explaining why the comparison of abortion to slavery can be more hurtful than helpful : You see, I’m firmly pro-life and anti-abortion. And I’m also one of those persons who responds, “How dare you compare abortion to slavery?!” You . . . . Continue Reading »
“Even if these good aspects of the legislation [the health care bill] are outweighed by its bad aspects, that is, if the net effect of the legislation at the moment is to advance abortion, it should not be repealed,” writes law professor and First Things writer Richard Stith in . . . . Continue Reading »
Rumors keep surfacing on the fringe of American politics that President Obama is a secret Muslim, including a recent video that has gone viral on Youtube. It involves an Israeli author, Avi Lipkin, who claims that his wife (who supposedly monitors Arab-language broadcasts professionally) heard a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s first “On the Square” article, Losana Boyd reviews a new collection of poems, Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City . “Brokenness haunts the pages” of the book, she writes in A Poet Haunted by Brokenness ., and the poet’s work “focuses on . . . . Continue Reading »
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