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May 31, 2025

An Unfortunate MAHA Blunder, by Nate Jackson

By Nate Jackson, Patriot Post - MAHA stands for Make America Healthy Again, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s director of the Department of Health and Human Services, is leading the charge. MAHA’s laudable goal is to make progress in addressing the health issues that are adversely affecting millions of Americans. Obesity is rampant, along with an increase in diabetes and other weight-related complications. Autism and attention disorders seem to have exploded, as have asthma, allergies, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.

May 31, 2025

Government Criticised for Rating Assisted Suicide Law by Cash Saved in Patient Deaths, by Simon Caldwell

By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald - Bioethicists have severely criticised a “truly sinister” government impact assessment of the assisted suicide Bill for focusing on the money that might be saved from doctors helping patients to kill themselves... The Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre, which serves the Catholic Church in the UK and Ireland, also criticised the government for underestimating the numbers of people who would die from assisted suicide if Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill became law. ...

May 31, 2025

Liturgical Stooges, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - The project of "modernizing" ancient hymns turned into a search for rhyming words, at the cost of original meaning... When editors modernize the language, they invariably screw it up. You can’t turn thee at the end of a rhyming line into you without having to rewrite the whole line it is supposed to rhyme with. You can’t turn leadeth into leads without messing up the meter, so you have to choose another verb entirely or rewrite the line. ...

May 31, 2025

SCOTUS Allows Trump to Cancel Legal Status For 500,000 Migrants Paroled Under Biden, by Brittany M. Hughes

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV - In a 7-2 decision that's currently making leftists' heads explode, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke the legal status of nearly half a million migrants that were paroled under a Biden administration program... Thanks to the court’s decision, roughly 500,000 paroled migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, who were granted temporary amnesty under the Biden administration's "CHNV” program, will have their temporary legal status canceled and will be required either to file for another form of legal status, return to their home country, or stay in the United States illegally and risk forced deportation by Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...