Fr. Hans

The Market and Its Medicine

Wall Street Opinion Journal Stephen Moore December 5, 2006

Solving the health-care “crisis” means not more government involvement but less.

About 10 years ago, I broke my leg playing basketball. After I came out of surgery, with a cast stretching from my ankle to the top of my leg, an orderly asked me whether I had ever used crutches before. I hadn’t, so he showed me what to do, swinging through them from one end of the room to the other. The whole lesson lasted about 90 seconds. When I got my hospital bill, I saw that I had been charged $150 for “gait training on crutches.” I did what all insured Americans do: I forwarded the bill to my insurance company. Why should I care? I wasn’t paying for it.

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Which One God?

National Review Online Bat Yeor December 4, 2006

Comparing the Muslim and Christian conceptions of God.

With the passing of time, hidden challenges, which for a long time had been growing unnoticed and unaddressed, can suddenly emerge into the full-blown light of current events with a force which seems quite overwhelming. Today the Western world, or Judeo-Christian civilization, shaken by jihadist terror, is being rudely awakened to theological realities blurred for decades. From clashes of civilizations to the jihad that is declaring to the planet its genocidal intentions, rational discourse concerning faith is becoming increasingly fraught.

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Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered

LA Times Raymond Ibrahim December 5, 2006

What they capture, they keep. When they lose, they complain to the U.N.

IN THE DAYS before Pope Benedict XVI’s visit last Thursday to the Hagia Sophia complex in Istanbul, Muslims and Turks expressed fear, apprehension and rage. “The risk,” according to Turkey’s independent newspaper Vatan, “is that Benedict will send Turkey’s Muslims and much of the Islamic world into paroxysms of fury if there is any perception that the pope is trying to re-appropriate a Christian center that fell to Muslims.” Apparently making the sign of the cross or any other gesture of Christian worship in Hagia Sophia constitutes such a sacrilege.

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Casey Ran as “Pro-Life”; His First Act Seeks “Sexual Orientation” Hate Crime Law

LifeSiteNews.com Meg Jalsevac November 14, 2006

Touted as pro-life and pro-family moderate who values his Catholic faith.

Within 24 hours of winning the bitter Pennsylvanian Senate race against incumbent Republican Rick Santorum, Democrat Senator-elect Bob Casey, Jr. let his real agendas show through. Citizenlink.org has reported that, the very day after the election, Casey announced that he would work in support of legislation to increase the scope of federal hate crimes law to encompass sexual orientation and gender identity as a victim group.

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Is It a Sin not to Vote?

Breakpoint Charles Colson November 1, 2006

Christians in the Public Square

Is it a sin not to vote?

That’s a question that’s been very much in the news in the wake of the supposed exposé by David Kuo, author of Tempting Fate. Kuo, a former aide to President Bush, says he became disillusioned when he heard administration staffers call evangelicals “nuts” and “goofy.” He was also bothered that staffers used political judgments in deciding where to hold briefings. Really? What administration since George Washington has not considered politics when scheduling meetings? As for the “nuts” charge—assuming it’s true—well, I’ve probably used the same term myself to describe some overly zealous brethren.

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October 23, 1956 The Hungarian Revolution: impotent, poignant, personal.

Wall Street Opinion Journal Peter Nadas October 23, 2006

So, on that Tuesday afternoon, a single flow of humanity was moving down the avenues; they were coming on Váci Avenue, on Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue, but on Marx Square many stopped in hesitation: Which way now? The piled-up streetcars stood motionless where they had gotten stuck in their tracks, with the lights burning in the empty compartments. There were about 80,000 people stranded around the edges of the square, on the banks of this vast intersection. They were singing, shouting demands, having visions, speechifying. A crowd, half a million strong, was already in front of the Parliament building. They demanded that the Russians go home, and clamored for Imre Nagy to make a speech.

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