Ebola, Ideology and Common Sense
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 20th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Ebola, Ideology and Common Sense
Pat Buchanan, RealClearPolitics
Growing up in Washington in the 1930s and ’40s, our home was, several times, put under quarantine. A poster would be tacked on the door indicating the presence within of a contagious disease — measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever. None of us believed we were victims of some sort of invidious discrimination against large Catholic families. It was a given that public health authorities were trying to contain the spread of a disease threatening the health of children. Out came the Monopoly board. Polio, or infantile paralysis, was the most fearsome of those diseases. The first two…