So Cain has said he would balance the budget in his first year as President. He has also promised not to cut Medicare or Social Security in the first year. He also suggested that he would prefer to keep more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than President Obama would prefer. So . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike the current tax code, the 9-9-9 plan doesn’t allow businesses to deduct employee wages from their tax liabilities. Doesn’t this amount to a hidden 9% payroll tax (though without some of the payroll taxes’ distorting effects?) If I’m wrong I’ll . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE ; It’s a serious movie about wandering and wondering, and it may be even better than I think it is right now. It certainly based on Christian “anthropology” and very pro-life (as I will explain in greater detail later). . . . . Continue Reading »
So much for “choice:” The Telegraph is reporting that some UK hospitals secretly apply DNR orders—without patient/family knowledge or consent—against elderly patients. From the story:Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals . . . . Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis fans will want to know about the New York C. S. Lewis Society . The group meets the second Friday of every month in the parish house of an Episcopal church on West 11th Street in Manhattan, and publish a bi-monthly bulletin , which usually features a substantial essay on Lewis. I went . . . . Continue Reading »
How can anyone deny human exceptionalism? A New York Times story reveals that scientists have found the remains of a “paint factory” in which exceptional humans in Africa used ocher for symbolic purposes 100,000 years ago. From the story:Of special importance to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Psychiatrists shouldn’t practice amateur psychology from a distance or use their perceived authority to make points driven by their politics. But that seems precisely what psychiatry professor Justin Frank has done twice now, once writing a book declaring W to have been . . . . Continue Reading »
By ME . This BIG THINK experiment produced some telling and even smart responses. . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone told Obamacarians that their long term health care provision would not work. But it was put in as part of Obamacare advocates’ promise-the-sky approach to legislating. But now, reality has bitten, and Secretary Sebelius has admitted what was always known. It won’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week the Israeli government agreed to release more than 1,000 Palestinians from prison—including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis—in exchange for one young Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Rabbi Arik Ascherman explains the reasoning : “Judaism . . . . Continue Reading »
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