Having escaped communist Hungary in the early 1980s (thanks, mom & dad), and having heard from afar that country’s tortured state since, I never expected to express any particular pride in it. However, it sounds like there is glimmer of hope, starting with a new constitution, controversially adopted in the last year. From what I gather, bravo.

Observed on final approach to KBCB after a bumpy cloudy rainy night flight.

The current kerfuffle about the US feds forcing private health insurance plans to include free contraception as “preventive medicine” should not have arisen. This has all been predictable, not just from the point of view of christian groups feeling under attack. This current administration is after all the one whose leaders say a baby can be a punishment, or that abortion … reduces the cost [of citizens] to states and to the federal government.

It’s not as though these were isolated statements or outlier attitudes. These folks seem to consider new life a costly disease.

UPDATE: Sebelius digs deeper