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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