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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:00:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12365 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: National Review Online | Wesley J. Smith The people of the United States ensured an Obamacare future by apparently reelecting President Obama and maintaining a Democratic Senate. Here are the immediate consequences: 1. The IPAB will go into effect: As I have written, IPAB is the cornerstone of a planned bureaucratic state. The only […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/welcome-to-the-cult-of-government/ https://www.aoiusa.org/welcome-to-the-cult-of-government/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:53:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11974 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: Real Clear Religion | By George Neumayr Either say “long live the federal government” or die, Mexican government officials hectored Catholics in the early twentieth century, as depicted in the movie, For Greater Glory, an account of the Christian resistance to this persecution known as the “Cristeros war.” Is Mexico’s past America’s future? After […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/welcome-to-the-cult-of-government/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:13:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11964 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Fr. Gregory Jensen wrote the following response to my essay (Catholic Online: The Republic is Finished and the America We Knew is Gone). It’s good, really good in fact, and I am posting it here to generate discussion that not only analyzes the reason for the present decline but to generate discussion of where to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/feed/ 57 https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:17:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11961 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Why is anyone surprised? Obamacare was never going to be overturned. Not that it is constitutional, as the Constitution was originally conceived. It surely isn’t. But that Constitution has been terminally ill for a long time. Now it is dead. Why would the Supreme Court’s conservative chief justice rewrite the individual mandate’s penalty to be […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-at-what-cost/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-at-what-cost/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:03:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6164 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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To the Source Obamacare is now the law of the land. Because health care and wellness are such essential parts of our lives and our culture, America will never be the same. For now, Obamacare preserves a private financing system—no public option. Nonetheless, it still represents a government takeover of healthcare. By eliminating risk assessment–and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-at-what-cost/feed/ 51 https://www.aoiusa.org/if-you-pass-the-stupak-amendment-more-children-will-be-born-and-therefore-it-will-cost-us-millions-more/ https://www.aoiusa.org/if-you-pass-the-stupak-amendment-more-children-will-be-born-and-therefore-it-will-cost-us-millions-more/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:19:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6107 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From The Corner on National Review Online. Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/if-you-pass-the-stupak-amendment-more-children-will-be-born-and-therefore-it-will-cost-us-millions-more/feed/ 28