Blood Money and Health Care

My parents love the musical Jesus Christ: Superstar.  I hate it, for many reasons.  I could start with its denial of Jesus’ divinity, the hippie-like apostles complete with fawning feminine companions, the apparent sleeping arrangements of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, etc.  But, for all that, there are brief flashes of interesting bits.
One, in particular, came [...]

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The Attacks Aren’t Because Palin is Pro-Life

[NOTE: This is not my article.  It was sent in a Priests for Life e-newsletter, with the invitation to publish it in pro-life or group newsletters, etc.  So, I'm putting it up here.  I will somewhat disagree: I think Palin's pro-life views and the fact that she actually, visibly lives them are what attracts the vitriol.  [...]

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President Obama’s Afghanistan “Solution”

President Obama, after months and months of dithering or deliberation, depending on your point of view, finally announced that he is going to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, instead of the 40,000 troops recommended by the general he chose to lead in Afghanistan.  And they’ll be leaving in 18 months.  (A president could certainly say [...]

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Argue About What’s Important

If you follow football at all, you know what happened with Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers, or, more specifically, the new management.  The details are a little fuzzy, with a lot of they said/he said.  Favre had been frustrated by the lack of good talent on the team; reportedly, he’d even offered to [...]

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Hitler and Mao

In case you haven’t heard, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn was caught on tape giving a high school commencement speech praising Mao as a wonderful political thinker.  Specifically, she said:
… the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa– not often coupled with [...]

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People in glass houses…

Specifically, this has to do with accusations of “lack of research”.  (No, not against me; I’ve been gone too much lately to have garnered many of those complaints recently.  Plus, I usually cite my research.)
I used to find columnist Leonard Pitts interesting, if sometimes directly at odds with how I view the world.  He was [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Weird World

 
Life has been hectic, family has been nothing short of chaos-inducing (both sides, for very different reasons), my house is a wreck, and my mind isn’t doing a whole lot better.  But, as I learned as a plebe at the Academy, nothing is quite as bad as Plebe Summer, so I can put up with anything [...]

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Hope for Journalism

After a nauseating campaign season full of fawning adoration and “thrills up my leg” from almost every major news outlet except Fox (which is now killing the other news channels in the ratings), you would have ample reason to sigh, “That’s it.  Really this time.  Journalism is dead.”
That tough, junkyard dog, snarling up the tree [...]

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Not buying Obamacare

Ok, I said I was going to be gone, but the crisis is on hold, so I got to watch President Obama’s speech tonight.
Oh, joy.
Now, I’ll say this for him: President Obama is a great speaker, especially if you like traditional “black” pulpit-pounding preaching.  (I was a little disappointed at the lack of, “Can I [...]

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Wiggle Room in the Health Care Bill

The problem with DVR’s is that you wind up watching live shows from Friday night on Sunday night.  Oh, well.
The World Over, EWTN’s weekly news program, had several people discussing the health care bill.  Thankfully, several Catholic groups that had seemed to support the bill currently being discussed have come out, clearly stating that they [...]

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