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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Ebola: Political correctness could kill a lot of us

Pat Buchanan: Community and country come ahead of any obligation to people of Africa

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.

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