Politics

September 30, 2019

Pampering or Truth? What Makes for a Worthy Life, by R.J. Snell

By R.J. Snell, Contributing Editor of Public Discourse - "It’s an interesting claim: when regimes made utopian promises, they lied to cover over the facts that might reveal their inadequacy; but when regimes make no moral claims, they need not pretend to truth―they aim only for power. Put more simply, regimes that make truth claims lie all the time, while regimes that lack big ideologies tell unvarnished truth about their goals."

September 30, 2019

Congress Should Pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, by Wesley Smith

By Wesley Smith, National Review - After a few months, as my mother continued to decline, she was deemed to be dying and prescribed hospice care. Palliative care and hospice care are not the same thing. Palliative interventions broadly describe symptom alleviation across the medical spectrum, while hospice focuses narrowly on caring for the dying and generally provides greater services, such as chaplaincy, social work, and in-home volunteers.

September 30, 2019

State Can’t Close Catholic Adoption Agency That Wants to Place Kids With Mother and Father, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - The state of Michigan has lost its attempt to close a Catholic adoption agency that wants to operate according to its religious beliefs… Catholic Charities West Michigan asked a court to stop officials from illegally targeting it and forcing it to close because of its religious beliefs. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services tried to enforce a new policy that targets the ministry’s policy prioritizing the placement of children in homes with a mother and father.

September 28, 2019

The Democrats Punish America for Voting Wrong. Bad Proles, BAD! by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream - In the minds of our ruling classes, when Barack Obama got elected, that overturned everything. It was meant to be a permanent regime change in America, like the one the Democrats imposed on Libya… Recall how Obama promised that his job was “fundamentally transforming” the country? He wasn’t kidding, and his promise set expectations high. Remember the messianic fervor among the mainstream media and academia that greeted his win? And the prolonged, irrational hysteria that greeted Trump’s? Those two phenomena go together.