At the beginning of this month, I responded with abhorrence to the murders of the Charlie Hebdo artists by jihadis and asked whether Islam has a fundamental tendency toward violence that Christianity does not. In one of those wonderful moments…
Posts tagged as “Europe”
Last month, the state Ag Department, the state dairy industry, and the Valley Queen Cheese factory ganged up to block Senate Bill 126, which would have undone some of the onerous restrictions the state put on raw milk sales last…
Elizabeth Rosenthal as been burning up the pages of the New York Times with her series on the high cost of health care in the United States. I mentioned her July 1 article on the high cost of childbirth in…
I know, I know, we Americans abandoned Europe for a reason. But when Europeans want to repopulate their rural areas, they don't send their leaders to sit in mall kiosks to tell people to move back to the country. They…
Yesterday I mentioned America's declining teen birth rates and wondered how that improvement squares with the cries of moral decline that we hear from our alarmist right-wing neighbors. That improvement is relative. Compare birth rates in the U.S. with our…
Mitt Romney's campaign slogan, as repeated for the umpteenth time in last night's New Hampshire debate, is, "We're becoming more like Europe!" On so many fronts, one can only wish that were true. Former Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Dave Cieslewicz explains…