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January 2017

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 20, 2016

Aleppo: this is what war is like

This is a post I've been sitting on for a while, as the situation in...

December 12, 2016

High-tech NFP: 30 years of missed opportunities?

Lost in all the pre-election reporting was a report about a potential new male contraceptive...

December 06, 2016

The Economist thinks it knows how to reduce abortion . . . eh, not so much

"How to Make Abortion Rarer" -- that's the title of an article in this week's...

December 05, 2016

A new(ish) contraceptive mandate in Illinois

Here's a piece of legislation which got pretty much zero coverage at the time it...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

What was the last item you bought from a small business?

That's a question I posed on my facebook page yesterday. In hindsight, I should have...

November 26, 2016

More on NFP effectiveness – and a shocker!

So last week I wrote about a very-statistically-credible German-conducted effectiveness study for sympto-thermal NFP that...

November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving! And . . .

tell me your stories! Conservative blogs and commentary sites have been full of reports lately...

November 21, 2016

Co-parenting with a rapist?

Not news, but worth discussing: an article on CNN, "'I have to text my rapist':...

November 20, 2016

The Hamilton kerfuffle

So, raise your hands if you've seen the reports about the speech that a Hamilton...

November 17, 2016

One voter, one vote?

Since I’m thinking about constitutional subjects, and yet do not want to address the stupidity...

November 16, 2016

More effective than the pill. Wait, what?

"Wait, what?" is my 13 year old son's favorite line when something surprises him, and...

November 15, 2016

A little Article 5 question

Here's Article 5 of the Constitution, in its entirety: The Congress, whenever two thirds of...

November 14, 2016

Confirmation saint wanted!

For my eighth grade son. Requirements: should be someone fairly contemporary, and "relatable." But not,...