Cardinal George is the latest one noting that the Obama regulation means they might have to shut Catholic hospitals, social service, and schools.
and if you think his reference to death panels is exaggerated, think again...
In the public discussion thus far, efforts have been made to isolate the bishops from the Catholic faithful by focusing attention exclusively on “reproductive” issues. But the acrimony could as easily focus next year or the year after on assisted suicide or any other moral issue that can be used to distract attention from the attack on religious liberty. Many will recognize in these moves a tactic now familiar in our public life: those who cannot be co-opted are isolated and then destroyed. The arguments used are both practical and theoretical.
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What is more disturbing is that now it is PC to mock Catholics, not only in the grammies but in major news blogs.
The link is to fatherZ, because I refuse to give them hits.
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The good news: the Arab Alquaeda types are leaving Pakistan.
The bad news: They are going home to their home countries.
But StrategyPage points out that becoming a terrorist is no longer "hip" in these countries either.
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CityJournal has a story about internet and the new revolutions.
Alas, what they share is a romanticized idea of the past but no plans for a viable future.
(and the past wasn't as great as they imagine, but that's another story).
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Hieropraxis finds his students know little or nothing about World war II...
A little probing allowed me to arrive at the dismaying conclusion: This group of twenty-five industrious second-year college students had, essentially, no knowledge of the Second World War, outside of “Hitler was a bad man.”
And so I had to teach an impromptu history lesson in order to help the students think about Lewis’s novel. The resulting discussion was, inevitably, shallow. And there was an opportunity cost: the time that it took to present these facts to students could have been used for more and deeper learning.
The cost of outsourcing memory to search engines is higher than we think.
He blames google for making it unnecessary to remember things, but in my experience Google only lets you find facts easily that you remember already, but want the reference and details of what you already know. The real problem is that they aren't bothering to teach the basics in high school...
or maybe he needs more geeks in his English composition classes.
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No, I didn't watch the academy awards...the only movie I saw was the Iron Lady and although Meryl Streep was good in it, the screenplay was disjointed and full of fast references to things that many Americans wouldn't have a clue about. Quick: For example: Google this: Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
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The ever cynical Spengler conjures up Richilieu's answer to solving the Middle East's problems: HERE and HERE.
Hmmm...I'll have to read up on the 30 year war again...but it actually sounds like he's really channeling Anne Coulter...
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