Author: Hamous
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Thursday Open Comments
Victor Davis Hanson talks of American Groupspeak: Don’t discuss the deficit. Instead, call borrowing “stimulus.” Trillions are not much different from billions. … Keep silent about Social Security and Medicare. If the system is insolvent, it cannot be because we are living longer, retiring earlier, often taking out more than we paid into the pot,…
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Required Reading for Your College-Bound Kid
Texpat forwarded me a link I thought I’d share. One of the biggest concerns I hear from friends with children heading off to college is that they fear the indoctrination into leftist ideology that seems to be ubiquitous on college campuses nowadays. Some folks got together and wrote a book about it – Disorientation: How…
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Minnesota Democrat Party says Catholic Church Ignores the Poor
There are some justified criticisms that can be leveled at the Catholic Church. Ignoring the poor is most certainly not one of them. Unless you’re the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The DFL is the Minnesota arm of the national Democrat Party. Their political ad comes in the form of a postcard depicting a man dressed as…