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The Problems with Government-Run Healthcare
Deal W. Hudson September 3, 2009 As the White House backs away from the so-called public option in health-care reform, Catholic experts are hopeful that the proposed government control of the nation’s medical care will be put aside. They argue that rejecting the public option will better serve a culture of life, maintain the present high quality…
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When Should Catholics “Call a Spade a Spade”?
Deal W. Hudson September 7, 2009 “To call a spade a spade,” a phrase whose origin can be traced back to Plutarch, is defined by Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as to be “outspoken, blunt, even to the point of rudeness.” The question of when Catholics should be outspoken, in this sense, has arisen over the heated…
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Obama Tries to Save Healthcare Reform… and His Presidency
Deal W. Hudson September 10, 2009 With his popularity ratings plummeting and public resistance to his health-care reform proposals increasing, President Barack Obama spoke to Congress and a national television audience for 48 minutes last night. Though touted as his “health-care speech,” the more important subtext was the future of Obama’s presidency itself. He has…
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Playing the Race Card and the Sin of Slander
Deal W. Hudson September 17, 2009 On Tuesday, former president Jimmy Carter told NBC Nightly News, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.” I have some questions for Carter: On what grounds do you label…
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Charity, Civility, and Speaking the Truth
Deal W. Hudson September 21, 2009 The funeral of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy provoked a highly charged debate among Catholics about civility. In the midst of this discussion, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, came to Washington, D.C., to be honored by InsideCatholic.com at its 14th…
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A University of Dallas Alumnus Sets His Sights on Congress
Deal W. Hudson September 24, 2009 At age 37 and married only a month, Kevin Calvey volunteered for deployment in Iraq. When he returned to his wife, Toni, in Oklahoma City a year later – 2008 – he restarted his private law practice but was soon alarmed by the “dire situation” of our nation. It…
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Divine Mercy Care
Deal W. Hudson October 5, 2009 “Put us head to head with any Planned Parenthood clinic, and people will choose us.” Dr. John Bruchalski, an OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia, told me how his Divine Mercy Care organization can transform national health care. DMC presently consists of an obstetrics and gynecology facility, the Tepeyac Family Center, and the DMC…
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Why A “Public Option” Will Lead to Abortion Coverage
Deal W. Hudson October 12, 2009 This week, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on the health-care bill. If it passes, the Finance bill will be reconciled with the bill already passed by the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Then health-care reform will go to the Senate floor for a vote. The Finance Committee…
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Obama’s Nominee for EEOC Promotes Polygamy and Homosexuality
Deal W. Hudson October 20, 2009 President Barack Obama has nominated a Georgetown University law professor, Chai R. Feldblum, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Council. Feldblum, a lesbian activist lawyer, formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and in the mid-1980s clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of Roe v.…
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The Stupid Party May Learn a Lesson in Upstate New York
Deal W. Hudson October 22, 2009 A special election will be held on November 3 in upstate New York that may send a much-needed message to the GOP. New York Congressional District 23 was put up for grabs when nine-term Rep. John McHugh, a Republican, resigned to become Secretary of the Army. The eleven Republican chairs of…
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