Who does the doctor serve? When we lived in a society with common values, the answer was easy—the patient. Today, not so easy.Now, doctors sometimes are asked to take lives, not just save them. And there is a push within organized medicine to create a destructive dual . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Virginia was beautiful yesterday, a sunny day getting things up to perhaps 64 degrees, but man, today I’m feeling it’s got just nothing on California, which my wife and I had just returned from. ALL of our Christmas vacation there was filled with sunny days, and the last one got . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete, watch this therapeutic video! The grumpy, unhappy, “we’re all doomed” Pete is starting to trouble me. Does he need Prozac, a spiritual uplift, or what? Maybe he needs a self-help expert! Who, better, than TV’s Reverend Governor Mike Huckabee? Maybe he can’t make . . . . Continue Reading »
Disgust was widespread in the attacks against Rick Santorum and his wife for taking their dead baby home to allow the family to grieve his death together. Washington Post liberal columnist Eugene Robinson gratuitously brought the issue up on the Rachel Maddow show:“He’s . . . . Continue Reading »
1. We’re probably doomed. Well, not doomed, just looking at some tough probabilities. If the latest employment report sets the pattern for the economy going into the next ten months (or even somewhat less), it would take a good Republican candidate running a good campaign to . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my BIG THINK version. . . . . Continue Reading »
An English Catholic bishop makes what to some of us is an obvious point: Bishop asks if church should stop funding schools that are ‘Catholic in name only” . The Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell, wrote in his new year’s day pastoral letter that parishes needed to . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline of this story —“majority of evangelicals pick Santorum in Iowa”—is misleading. Last I checked, 32% wasn’t a majority. After Santorum’s 32%, Ron Paul received 18% of the evangelical vote, and Gingrich, Perry, and Romney each received . . . . Continue Reading »
Kathryn Walker reviews Raised Right : Sometimes it’s hard to understand why young people deviate from the conservative mentalities of their parents during their young adult years, but Raised Right: How I Untangled my Faith from Politics offers an explanation for the switch. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest Washington Post column , E.J. Dionne considers the newly surging candidacy of Rick Santorum. It is not a particularly memorable or insightful column—in other words, par for the course—but there is one paragraph that makes one’s hair stand on end: Santorum is a . . . . Continue Reading »
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