Back when the ICU was the big profit center, people complained that they were often ”hooked up to machines” until death, even when they just wanted to stop or go home to die. Then, when the ICU became a potential big money loser due to capitation, we began to hear more complaints . . . . Continue Reading »
In preparation for the Passover holiday and its prohibition against leaven bread (Hebrew: “hametz”), Jews spend weeks punctiliously purging their homes of every last crumb of the offending food. Pantries are cleaned, ovens scrubbed, the dark, mysterious regions in between couch cushions . . . . Continue Reading »
You read Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church on The Atlantic ‘s website, and scratch your head, and shuffle your feet, and drum your fingers on the table, and shuffle your feet again, trying to figure out what exactly you can say about it . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks rarely gets it right, I find. But he mostly did in his last column about a man named Charles Darwin Snelling. Brooks had earlier extolled Snelling’s essay about how caring for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife had “humanized” him. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh good grief. First, UK Prime Minister David Cameron decided to launch a “gross emotional prosperity” index to measure his countrymen’s ”happiness.” Then, Peter Singer embraced the idea, writing that international policies should have as their goal the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well obviously someone should be , and Ben Shapiro thinks it’s Williams. NBC’s handling of the Trayvon Martin story was horrifying, and could have led to riots. And neither did the other MSM outlets, nor, alas, our president, try to get the necessary “let’s wait for . . . . Continue Reading »
Somebody uploaded a video on YouTube to send a message that scientists ought not believe in God. The speaker is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.Some of the lecture was cut out, so I will not hold Tyson responsible for the error . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl is right that President Obama didn’t mean to come out against the power of the Supreme Court to strike down laws passed by Congress. Well, actually he did just that in this sentence where he said “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would . . . . Continue Reading »
even if he didn’t quite mean it: In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Under the anti-clerical Mexican Constitution of 1917, the Catholic Church faced escalating levels of official persecution, eventually culminating in a full-fledged civil war between the state and the religious peasantry during the second half of the 1920s. Marta Jimenez over at Catholic News Agency . . . . Continue Reading »
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