The drug is spelled "heroin," not "heroine." That latter word is reserved for Hillary.

Genesis teaches that God made humans in His own image and likeness. Catholic theology says that means with intellect and free will. If God interferes with our free (but often uninformed) will, then He is acting against His own free gift to us. So by refusing to stop these horrible crimes, He is paying our human dignity the ultimate compliment. Now the apparitions of Christ and Mary tell us that even in their glorified state, the sins we humans commit grieve their human natures. So Jesus is suffering in some sense right along with those kids, parents and the rest of us who see these crimes. He is on our side at all times, and even grieves for the perpetrators of crimes.

Actually, evil has no independence of existence. Evil is only the absence of some objective good. But it is awful nonetheless. St. Therese of Liseaux taught that it would be better for the world to be destoyed than for a human to commit one VENIAL sin. That's profound.

God is permitted in schools as long as the students bring Him in, rather than the teachers. There are impassioned prayers to God every day from students needing to pass a test and teachers asking for the guidance to do their jobs. They are just not obvious because they are internal. In Texas we have a state-mandated "moment of silence" daily and I unostentatiously (as other teachers do) make the sign of the cross at the beginning and end. Nobody has ever questioned that exercise of my first amendment rights.

They sleep just fine because their generous health insurance plan pays for their Ambien (R).

I agree with this, but would change it to "too late." I wrote a book, The Panic of '06, almost 20 years ago. It was '06 plus or minus 2 years, so I was on the money. After the Panic, we were supposed to put our house in order, but we bailed out the fat cats instead and ignored the bankruptcy laws which would at least have trimmed the fat in the auto makers. Alas, it's the bane of all democracies.

Let's remember that the Boomers and the generation immediately preceding them are responsible for the immanent collapse of SS and Medicare because they did NOT have enough children to keep the system solvent. If the fertility rate had stayed at 3.6--where it was in 1963--we would still have a solvent and working program. But it dropped to 1.8 by 1976 and only stabilized for a while at 2.1. So we have to cut Boomer benefits by at least 25% immediately (yes, I am a Boomer who had 3 kids) and bribe the Millennials to have 3.6 kids in order to keep it going. Now what politician has the guts to say that?

There is no intention on the part of anyone in government EVER to pay off the principal on these loans they have taken out.

There is an argument for either having an estate tax or eliminating the step-up in basis for capital gains for those who inherit. The accumulation of wealth involves expenses the accumulator does not pay for, and if the inheritors don't pay tax on the untaxed increase in the value of wealth, then that essentially passes without ever being taxed to pay for the constitutional stuff like national defense, and the unconstitutional stuff like Obamacare. So some kind of tax should be imposed to recover some of those costs.

Reagan, Bush I and Clinton were beneficiaries of the Boomer generation entering the work force, making natural families (mom, dad, 2.3 kids) and both buying and saving--and overfunding the social security payments to their grandparents. No luck involved there, just a maturing Baby Boom. Bush II (2nd term) and Obama are presiding over the maturing of the Gen-X and early millennials, who are not entering the work force, not making families, and neither buying nor saving. Result--a worldwide recession with no end in sight.

You should add some of this to the too-short Wikipedia article on him.