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Entries from December 2009

Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

Tags: General Interest

Our Gnostic Masters

December 22nd, 2009 · 13 Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Politics & Culture

The Non-Reform Health Care Bill

December 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Health care policy · Health care reform · Medicine

Remember Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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

Tags: History

No Death Panels Needed

December 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Health care policy · Health care reform · Medicine

Wednesday Night Blues

December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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

Tags: Blues · Guitar · Music

Surface Tension

December 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

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

Tags: General Interest