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Unless you’ve been living under a large rock or are snowed into your home with no internet, TV or phone, you have probably heard of the “mandate” President Obama and his Department of Health and Human Services have begun to institute.  This mandate demands that Catholic hospitals, universities and other institutions provide contraception, pharmacological abortions [...]

Please pardon, my dear readers, my absence these past weeks.  But, big things are afoot and now you get to be regaled with the tale. In short, I’ve taken an official “leave of absence” from my graduate program and have taken a full time job at a prominent medical school in the Midwest.  The decision [...]

I ventured over to the school of engineering today to hear a lecture from Boeing’s Chief Technological Officer.  Being in a “social science,” I was looking forward to some good old fashioned capitalist talk.  You know, men who wear ties and not track pants, free bottled water, profits, markets, calculus, etc?  Plus, the school of [...]

I found this little gem through Ricochet.com.  Professor Richard Epstein talks a great deal of sense here and his words have great impact for explaining how the current administration has failed to produce growth (or even foster growth) and how the “occupy” movements are fundamentally flawed.  Richard Epstein is a professor at the New York [...]

I came across this video as an advertisement on Youtube.  Upon further investigation, the video is produced by an organization called “Energy for America.”  I think it speaks for itself.  What do you think? I’m a conservative, but I also have a conservation side and a love of nature.  Nature is, after all, our sister, [...]

Last week’s Ricochet podcast, at Ricochet.com, featured Thomas Sowell.  Dr. Sowell is a fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford and is the author of many works, among which I find Basic Economics, Economic Facts and Fallacies, and A Conflict of Visions to be very influential.  Put as simply as possible, Thomas Sowell is one [...]