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Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a company that made buggy whips. Every day, the owners would pray that someday they would find a technology that would improve the buggy whip to the point where it cost them nearly nothing to produce, and then they could flood the market with cheap buggy whips and make a fortune. The people would...

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Joe McClane Rocks!

Matt Warner at Fallible Blogma is running “Support a Catholic Speaker month". The idea is to get Catholic bloggers to each pick a Catholic speaker and blog about him or her as a way to help us all get to know about the various Catholic resources out there. Well, this blog isn't a “Catholic” blog per se, but it is my blog and I am Catholic which I...

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God Spelled

Seems like I've been thinking too much about health care lately, so let's get onto a different topic. How many times have you heard “God spelled backward is dog?” This is true in an orthographic sense, but also in other ways (more on that blow). Dogs have been on my mind lately. They seem to be popping up all over. As a kid we had (at various times)...

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What Gets Measured...

Hope you're not all too sick of my health care rants. This time I want to talk about “root causes”. The insurance industry recently published a report that says the health care bill as it is now will increase the cost of insurance dramatically. To that I say “Duh!” Now there is partisan posturing on the report, with all sorts of cr*p flying around...

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Why I can't support the health care bill part II

I've had some conversations about my award winning blog post Some of the reasons why I can't support the health care bill. In particular, I've been asked (even by fellow Catholics) “As a Catholic how can you not support health care reform?” After all, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) says: “2288 Life and physical health are precious gifts...

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