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January 2017

January 28, 2017

5 myths about the Holocaust

Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which generated a lot of "Trump = Hitler" tweets....

January 28, 2017

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” executive order: the good, the bad, and the ugly

So Trump's big "extreme vetting" executive order was signed yesterday, and I've been waiting for...

January 27, 2017

What’s Pena Nieto’s agenda?

In the news yesterday were reports (e.g., CNN) that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto cancelled a...

January 26, 2017

Week 1 (so far): The Executive Orders

So now it's the turn of the Democrats to say, "if you didn't like Obama's...

January 24, 2017

Looking for vacation ideas

In the past, when we haven't had a "big" vacation, we've spent a week in...

January 23, 2017

The Myth of the Marshall Plan

After World War I, the victorious allies obliged Germany to accept a treaty that was...

January 22, 2017

An “America First” hypothetical

What does "never again" mean? We use this phrase to signal a determination not to...

January 22, 2017

A tale of two speeches

Point #1: Obama's inaugural speech was written by a professional speechwriter, Jon Favreau. A very...

January 21, 2017

The “women’s march” is global, apparently

And I find it distasteful. Sorry, but I do. This is, above all, an anti-Trump...

January 19, 2017

Who are your heroes?

Trump was asked that question, and he answered oddly: "I don't like heroes, I don't...

January 18, 2017

Can you be a “pro-life feminist”? (warning: rant)

The folks at Feminists for Life certainly believe so. A group calling itself the New...

January 17, 2017

And so it begins . . .

Yes, my son is a junior in high school, so I knew that the onslaught...

January 15, 2017

Healthcare spending: two questions

Yes, another set of questions for readers. Easier to ask questions than pontificate, when I'm...

January 15, 2017

Open forum: your predictions, please!

On the Saturday following Inauguration Day, protests are planned for not just Washington D.C., but a...

January 14, 2017

Could Betsy De Vos solve the Two-Income Trap?

The nomination of Betsy De Vos to head the Department of Education has brought up,...

January 14, 2017

Why the adulation?

Just to be perfectly clear: I remember Bill Clinton. I remember that many Americans thought...

January 11, 2017

Who wants to talk about the latest Trump “-gate”?

Not me. I'm behind in work at my day job. But here's a link to...

January 10, 2017

Working backwards on immigration, and a Cupich gripe

Today Cardinal Cupich had a piece in the op-ed section in the Chicago Tribune, titled...

January 09, 2017

A bit of irony on minimum wage/immigration advocacy

Here's a piece at MarketWatch.com that was floating around twitter this weekend: "Your food and...

January 09, 2017

There are (apparently) no snowflakes in France

Here's something that showed up in my twitter feed this morning: "Erasmus tips: How to...

January 09, 2017

A few thoughts on Russia and the election

"Did cyberhacks hurt Clinton?" That's the title of an article in the Chicago Tribune which...

January 07, 2017

4 easy Obamacare fixes

There's a lot of chatter about how Republicans are going to repeal Obamacare and replace...

January 07, 2017

A dog-owning ethics question

Put simply, is it ethical to own a dog to provide you with companionship, even...

January 06, 2017

An update (sort of) on Gaza

Man, oh, man, is Gaza a mess. I wrote pessimistically about this region? territory? geographical...

January 04, 2017

Women and alcohol – and facebook?

Late last week, the Washington Post reported that "Drinking is killing twice as many middle-aged...

January 02, 2017

Can you be a Christian introvert?

And, mind you, "introvert" carries with it a bit of "somewhere, somebody is probably secretly...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

The Three State Solution

Yes, three states. It goes like this: Israel engages in land swaps to some reasonable...

December 26, 2016

Three questions on the anti-settlement UN resolution

Obligatory link to context: Ann Althouse (with links in her own post), BBC (containing the claim that...

December 25, 2016

The “True Meanings” of Christmas

Plural. Some years ago, I attended Catholic mass on Christmas Day for the first time, and...

December 23, 2016

Imagine a country without segregation (more on the election system)

And by segregation, I only partly mean racial segregation. I also mean those various other...

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