In many ways, Osama bin Laden has won his war, even though he is dead. His stated goal for many years was to engage the U.S. in so many wars in the MidEast that our economy fails (he understands economics and that there is no such thing as war-is-stimulus better than most tenured economists in…
DetailsYES! I have been searching for a thoughtful explanation like this such that I might wrap my head around this idea. For a very long time, I have believed that legislators act irrationally quite often in passing laws or executive decision based not on general rules that you and I might be able to figure…
Details“Conspiracy” is a word used both too little and too often. Many things are called conspiracy that are not, and many plots among men should be considered conspiracy but are not. Of course, today a conspiracy theorist is someone who believes crazy things, for example “the Titanic was sunk by a German submarine instead of…
DetailsThe main intellectual defense of maintaining a public police force is the Hobbesian “if we didn’t have them there would be no one to protect us from the brutal nature of man.” The problem is, in reality, public police do nothing of the sort. They exist for two reasons: [Police] rarely, if ever, prevent a…
Details+ “Sniffing “but this is the twenty-first century” in the face of this evidence and the teaching of the Church is exactly like sniffing “But this is Tuesday!” The calendar has nothing to do with whether God created immortal spirits called “angels.” It has nothing to do with the fact that some of them abused…
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