In recent weeks, three major Catholic organizations have shown questionable support for the current health care reform efforts. This has revealed either a huge naiveté or a blatant ideological bias on their part. Perhaps it is both. I don’t know but I wish it weren’t so. The organizations are The Society of Saint Vincent de [...]
This story on ABC’s 20/20 (video below) does a good job of summing up a lot of the problems that come when the government gets involved with providing health care – instead of just regulating parts of it. Everyone wants people to be taken care of and to have the health care they need. But [...]
The other day I had to load up my truck and take a bunch of stuff down to the sanitary landfill (AKA the Dump). I’ve had to do this a number of times over the past few years from different projects around the house, etc. No big whoop. So I drove on down, paid my [...]
We can all agree that we want progress. The question is which way to progress? In an increasingly complex climate of colliding cultures, defining progress is far too much like defining which way is up while floating in outer space. The big difference being that the latter is entirely relative and the former only seems [...]
Tuesday this week (May 26, 2009) the California Supreme Court upheld the ban on gay marriage in their state. It was the right decision. And I’ll tell you why.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams (Founding father and 2nd President of the USA) This is a good reminder that our government was never made to be totally separate from religion. In fact, the government cannot continue [...]
There’s no doubt America has changed from the place it first began. Some ways for the better. Some ways for the worse. But in the midst of the day-to-day noise and our sensitivity to our immediate emotion and need, every once in awhile we need to step outside and see things from a bigger perspective. [...]
