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A New Hampshire hospital employee faces nearly four decades of jail time for causing a Hepatitis C outbreak that infected dozens of patients last year. David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a drug addict has been sentenced to 39 years in federal prison for spreading the lethal liver destroying disease in patients through tainted needles while working at hospitals in several states. Kwiatkowski worked as a “traveling” radiologic technician at medical institutes in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona, Kansas, Georgia and New Hampshire. - See more at: David Kwiatkowski gets 39 years for infecting patients with Hepatitis C

This is why I am distressed by the recent 84 page apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis. Some of what he says is insightful and of great value to us all. But much of it shows a complete blindness to economic and social history, and no understanding of the dynamics of either. He is seeking a Utopian dream instead of advocating capitalism, the only path for the material betterment of mankind.

More Lowry Silliness Rich Lowry should read some history before he comments on it. In his column today he tries to make the self evident point that Obama's politics are gutter politics (there's a real shocker.) He says "...when he (Obama) reflects on his closing arguments during this campaign he'll tell himself, "I'm McCarthy baby. I can play in the gutter." Lowry's appraisal of the stench of Obama's methods is of course correct, but why must he use liberal mythology, provably false, to compare it to? Is Lowry, or for that matter the whole Sarah Palin bashing, John McCain endorsing...

Islam..Phobia or Simple Understanding The very politically incorrect joke goes, "The Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, George Bush, and a moderate Muslim are standing on four corners of a road with a ten dollar bill in the middle. Who got the ten dollar bill? George Bush of course. The other three are fairy tale characters." The problem we face at the Mosque and elsewhere is not one of moderate Islam versus an extreme or perverted version. The problem is with the fundamental nature of Islam itself. Read the Koran, listen to the Imams. One need not be selective in the passages...

Saturday, July 17, 2010 The Enemy of my Enemy .... "There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar This may be Obama's time, if only he seizes it. The thought of a nuclear armed Iran is bone chilling for anyone who understands the consequences. It is an existential threat for not just Israel, as many would like to pretend, but for the entire western world. We have dallied far too long, wishing...