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Lipstick on a Toxic Pig
By Judie Brown Historically, the term lipstick on a pig refers to making superficial changes to a product to make it more appealing, even though that thing is fundamentally subpar. This is a form of marketing deception, and it is a contradiction to the tenet that honesty is the best policy. But what about the cultural pig—a theory that is life-threatening, disease carrying, or otherwise harmful...
Palliative Care Demons
By Judie Brown The United States Senate HELP Committee is currently focused—at least in part—on lowering healthcare costs. However, there are problems with this, as over the years, the senators—perhaps unwittingly—have engaged the advice of some folks well known to...
Views from the Propaganda Cesspool
By Judie Brown Unlike the community swimming pool, this cesspool is full of so much hype that it makes your head spin. Examining some of the reports versus the facts that never accompany them will give us a clear picture of why our challenge is to empty this cesspool...
Legally-Protected Serial Killers
By Judie Brown We know that every abortion kills a human being created in the image and likeness of God. And we know that each of these individuals, from her biological beginning, is a unique and unrepeatable miracle. Yet even though these facts can be known to...
Jesus Christ Assured Us His Presence Is Real
By Judie Brown Swimming upstream in the gunk of our age, we understand that it is, at times, challenging to focus on the one gift that exceeds every other: the Holy Eucharist. As a Catholic, I find this sacrament to be a lifeline that protects from the evil of the...
The Facts about Planned Parenthood and Our Tax Dollars
By Judie Brown The media is telling us that Planned Parenthood withdrew from the government’s family planning program, known as Title X, because it did not want to comply with President Trump’s new rule. According to press reports, the problem is that, under this new...
Cleaning Up Our Personal Environment
By Judie Brown The latest environmentally correct headline claims that “Contraception Is the Answer to Climate Change.” Why is that? you might ask. Well, doesn’t everyone know that human beings are the problem because, as the writer claims, there are “too many of...