This story will make you discouraged about BOTH the government AND the free market when it comes to healthcare. Peter Whoriskey reports: The U.S. health-care system is vastly overspending for a single anemia drug because Medicare overestimates its use by hundreds of millions of dollars
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is a social conservative, a devout Roman Catholic with a strong pro-life record. And yet one of his most formative influences is reportedly Ayn Rand, the radical libertarian, an atheist who viciously attacked Christianity because it teaches love and compassion, advocating
I told you about Wittenberg Academy, offering an entire classical Lutheran high school curriculum online. Those are asynchronous courses, which means they are self-contained and may be taken whenever the student wants to fire up the computer, though there is personal interaction with the teacher
Well, to celebrate our anniversary and to catch up with our fast-disappearing summer, my wife and I constructed a “double feature” (anyone remember those?) by seeing BOTH Spiderman and Batman: The Dark Knight Rises on a single Saturday, with a late lunch in between. We
The Olympics are over. The United States took the most medals (104), including the most golds (46). China came in second, with 87, 38 being golds. The television ratings were huge. I resisted at first, but every time I would surf by, I would be
Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his vice-presidential running-mate. Ryan is known for his deficit-slashing budget proposal and his fiscal conservatism. Does this help Romney? Will it rally conservatives behind him or just alarm the general public worried about Social Security
Bad news for Republican in the electoral college: *** Romney leads in CO, but Obama’s ahead in VA and WI: Last week, President Obama campaigned in Florida and Ohio — just as new Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS polls showed him leading (and above 50%) in those
Charles Pope, a Roman Catholic priest in Washington, D.C., is compiling a list of quotations from the early church on abortion, which is not a modern invention but was extremely common during the Roman Empire. Some samples: The Didache (“The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”)
Well, the consensus as to my query about whether you would like a “like” feature in the comments seemed to be “dislike” and “thumbs down.” (That’s what we need: a voting plug-in so we can do polls and surveys! I am curious about someone’s reference
Washington Post columnist Melinda Henneberger on pro-life Democrats trying to get a hearing at the platform committee but getting shot down. She comes up with an interesting parallel, that abortion is to Democrats what gun rights are to Republicans, an untouchable issue that allows for
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