One of the few magazines I enjoy reading is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Dr. Thomas Fleming, a very erudite gent who occasionally writes like a curmudgeon (but a funny one) is one I like to read especially. In his Just Say No — To Healthcare, Dr. Fleming happily spreads his intellectual napalm on both sides of the supposed political divide. Being a traditional conservative (or “paleoconservative” as some have it), Dr. Fleming is not much of a fan of the Republican party.
Here’s a smattering of his frankness on healthcare:
The healthcare debate is as boring and stupid as every other debate in the United States. Republicans accuse the administration of plotting to impose socialized medicine and compulsory euthanasia, while Democrats retort that their critics, who have not read the proposed legislation, are resorting to demagoguery because they have no effective counter-argument. Suffice it to say that both sides are lying, though some of the mud they are slinging is tacky enough to stick to the wall.
The entire article is much worth your time. (By the way, the present writer agrees with Pat Buchanan. Compulsory euthanasia seems a logical conclusion of our pro-death president’s plan.)
Also worth the few moments it will take to read is Tom Piatak’s Of Mary and Crystals, an enthusiastic and cultured defense of the Blessed Virgin. It’s a sort of lofty apologetics directed at a secularist’s foolish diatribe against Catholic Marian devotion.
