The Doctor Is In

Here’s wishing you all a very blessed a Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your family, the great food, and the time off.
And be mindful of its meaning:
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor […]

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything but his reason.
 
       – G.K. Chesterton –
We have become a nation of experts.
They are everywhere: on TV, advising us about raising our children or improving our sex life; in magazines and newspapers, lending a measure […]

In the dark of night, appropriately, the Senate last night voted to end debate on its health care reform bill, bringing it to a floor vote. From Commentary magazine comes the following assessment of what will be voted on:
The non-reform health-care bill does, to the disgust of liberals, make insurance companies very happy. The government […]

 
Here’s a collection of archival photographs from Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th 1941.
Most were obtained from the naval archives.

Over at Big Government, we get a glimpse of where ObamaCare will take us: Health Care’s Coming Heart Attack – A Pre-Obama Care Death Panel?
I am writing of the Obama Administration’s – regulatory decision – to go ahead with a massive cut in Medicare payments to cardiologists. I emphasize that this is a regulatory decision […]

 
Otis Rush & Eric Clapton — some fine blues for a Wednesday night.

 
You’ll never look at raindrops the same way again.
Check it out. (HT: OrthoCath Blog)

Many of us have been struggling to understand the nature of our current economic meltdown. Was it greedy bankers, who made unscrupulous loans while passing the risks on to others? High-rolling hedge fund managers who resold the risky bundled securities and reaped millions? Politicians and political activists who pressured banks and lending organizations to make […]