With the possible exception of domestic terrorism, no single issue is more of a political hot potato than health care. While most of us are living longer and healthier lives, compared to Americans of one or two generations ago, paying for the care of our aging population, to say nothing of our undocumented “guests,” will
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Judging from the e-mail I received on last week’s essay—A Contrarian Look At The “War Against Christmas”, I thought I should expand a bit more on the notion of the secular Christmas holiday season. The term “invincible ignorance,” originally taken from Catholic theology, nowadays refers to a logical fallacy whereby the arguer defends a position
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Peter Brimelow was among the first to document, at least on the web, the Left’s relentless attack on Christmas, the most visible if not the most important Christian holiday. Horror stories abound, of course, from the outright banning of Christmas carols and Nativity displays, to the uber-PC self-correction of nominal Christians to utter “Happy Holidays,”
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I’ve touched on this subject before, but, given the new revelations regarding Jason Giambi, Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, and others, a few more remarks are in order. Records of human achievement, in one form or another, are as old as our species. Thus, it is probably the notion that hallowed records—such as Hank Aaron’s lifetime
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Here we are just past the long Thanksgiving weekend, launching the big American secular holiday season. Readers under 30 may not remember those times when greeting cards still said “Merry Christmas,” instead of “Happy Holidays,” and the story of the first Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by Governor Bradford, actually named who was being thanked (God—if you
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Unless you are a Catholic, who lives or has lived in Los Angeles, chances are pretty good that you have never heard of The Tidings, the official newspaper of the LA Archdiocese. The paper is known for embarrassingly low circulation numbers, considering it is based in the country’s largest diocese, and even these numbers are
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Why should a notorious international thug like Yasser Arafat be warmly eulogized by media outlets all over the world, including an excessively positive statement from the Vatican? After all, Arafat, founder of Fatah and a self-styled disciple of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II and far more than a
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The last time Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked his political magic was on November 7, 1944, when he was reelected for the third straight time. Even in this contest, his worst performance, he still garnered 53.5% of the popular vote, and an incredible 432-99 electoral vote margin. For the 1944 edition, FDR was smart enough to
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Last week, radio talk show host Michael Medved made a big point that all the terrorists, and their sympathizers, were supporting Kerry for president. To provoke reaction, he asked to hear from pro-Kerry listeners regarding how they felt to be lined up on the same side with our sworn enemies. It was also noted that
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en·tro·py: the ultimate state reached in the degradation of the matter and energy of the universe : state of inert uniformity of component elements : absence of form, pattern, hierarchy, or differentiation <entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder— J.R.Newman> Many readers are aware that after spending nearly all of
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