The Doctor Is In

Over at the Belmont Club, Richard Ramirez has a post citing a proposal by a physician for reform of the health care system. The proposal is thoughtful, with some excellent suggestions (which will never get implemented in today’s environment, sadly). What caught my eye in the comments was a summary of the changes which tort [...]

There’s lot’s of discussion going on about health care lately– very little of substance from our politicians (is anyone surprised?), who are more interested in ramming through a massive government “solution” than actually figuring out what a good solution might be. Here’s some articles worth looking through to get yourself better informed:  ♦ TennCare’s troubling history: [...]

Well, the first details of the long awaited health care plan are now coming out, and the Internet is abuzz with shock and awe about many of its aspects, particularly its high cost, the undermining of private health insurance policies, and the complexity of its administration, manifested in a host of new bureaucratic agencies to [...]

This is the second of two posts, much delayed, on the subject of Hell. The first may be found here:    ♦ The Death of Hell     On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question: I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man [...]

Several weeks ago, Washington State logged a solitary but grim statistic: the first assisted suicide under a new law enacted by initiative last November. It seems fitting, therefore, to re-post the following essay, written some five years ago, occasioned by the decision in the Netherlands to legalize euthanasia for children. It is, I fear, a [...]

I have recently had the opportunity to revisit an excellent series of articles at Touchstone’s blog, written several years ago by Tony Esolen, arguing for the sanity of preserving traditional heterosexual marriage, and the dangers of normalizing pseudogamous alternatives, of which gay marriage is just one of many on the horizon. It is a well-reasoned, [...]

If you own a cat (we have two, and a dog), then you will understand these cartoons all too well:    

We are currently in the small, several-week window, much celebrated in the Pacific Northwest, when the Alaskan Copper River salmon is available. This delectable (albeit overpriced) fish has a firm, delicate, bright red flesh very high in omega-3 oils, and is a true highlight of the culinary year. My wife bought some very nice fillets [...]