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It is possible that the Texas shooter was evil, not mentally ill. He should have been committed anyway. In 1995, Connecticut Governor John Rowland signed a bill to close Norwich and Fairfield Hills Hospitals, two of the state’s three public mental institutions. The hospitals had collectively housed more than 9,000 patients at their peak […]
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Thomas Aquinas argued that human law, because it is “framed for a number of human beings the majority of whom are not perfect in virtue,” should not criminalize every vice. Instead, he argued, the civil power should ban “only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to abstain.” Needless to […]
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Of the three-headed hydra of universal prekindergarten, subsidized child care, and the child tax credit, the latter was far and away the most defensible policy and the one least injurious to the aims of social conservatives. Senator Joe Manchin, the recent subject of a Two Minutes Hate for torpedoing the “Build Back Better” legislation, […]