So far the main argument why the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is unconstitutional is that it forces individuals to buy health insurance. But there is a much bigger constitutional issue at stake, as George Will points out: The point of PPACA is cost
Did any of you get your invitation? Dominique Strauss-Kahn, naturally, isn’t attending this year, and his likely successor Christine Lagarde is in China, but the Bilderberg Conference which kicks off in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz on Thursday retains its conspiratorial chic and pulling
Yesterday was Pentecost, the day the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Church. In celebration and contemplation of the day and the new season of the church year that we will be in for awhile, I would like to pose a couple questions: (1)
Senator Tom Coburn, who represents my natal state of Oklahoma, is probably the biggest deficit hawk in Congress. He’s a deficit eagle, as fiscally responsible and economically conservative as they come. But he’s taking flack from conservative activist Grover Norquist and others for violating the
The state of Alaska, following a freedom of information request, has released some 24,000 e-mails from Sarah Palin. Apparently giddy yet overwhelmed with so much information, the Washington Post is putting them online and asking its own readers to rummage around in them and help
Alan Wisdom has a brilliant article in Salvo, bringing back a word we need again and showing how different “just living together” and marriage really are: In ancient times, there was an option for a man who desired a regular sex partner but did not
Twelve of GOP candidate Newt Gingrich, every one of his top campaign staff, walked out on him! That doesn’t auger well. The speculation is that they are going over to Texas Governor Rick Perry. Do you think he might be the cowboy on the white
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. “Dr. Death,” died the other day, of natural causes and not by his own hand. Dr. Kevorkian was a practitioner of “physician-assisted suicide” and a hero to the euthanasia movement. Ross Douthat has brilliant op-ed piece in the New York Times,
Has President Obama, the former peace candidate, now started a 4th war? The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American
A good discussion about Baptism broke out at Internet Monk. Commenter Scott, as a Baptist, made some interesting points, as reposted at New Reformation Press: While not precisely in line with any of the above confessions, there are three things that, over the past decade
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