Sunday Song
Coldplay – Magic
Be Smarter than These
There are a few quotes that give me serious pause when I see them – and not in a good way. Let me explain what you sound like when you use them… “Privilege” There are some beliefs so stupid that only academics and the college brainwashed educated can justify them. “Privilege” is a lazy generalization…
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A union boss walks into a bar next door to the factory and is about to order a drink to celebrate Obama’s victory when he sees a guy close by wearing a Romney for President button and two beers in front of him. He doesn’t have to be an Einstein to know that this guy…
DetailsThe Volcker Rule’s Inevitable Shortcomings
From yesterday’s Casey Report: Dear Reader, What happens to your money when you put it in a bank? I remember when I was five years old, watching in awe from the passenger seat of our family station wagon as my mom put my dad’s paycheck into the plastic capsule at the automated teller. She’d place…
DetailsNoah, by WoF
Fr. Barron on the film Noah: The references to nephilim are strewn throughout the Book of Enoch, the last book that was rejected from Roman Catholic biblical canon (but still held as canon in Coptic Catholicism). Many of the Church Fathers wished to include it in the bible, while others believed it to be too…
DetailsThe Relationship between God & Morality
This is often referred to as the Euthyphro Dilemma. I will let WLC take it from here… Within Christianity, I think we are obligated to agree with WLC as he explains the case above. But in an argument about theism itself, it probably doesn’t matter. Say God did command morality (as Kiekegaard seems to believe…
DetailsWhat’s the Stupidest Critique of Freedom Possible?
It might have been written this week. The New Yorker, ladies and gents: I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. “Bad news, detective. We got…
DetailsBe a Bigot; Be Friends with a Bigot
EconomicPolicyJournal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently told Palm Beach Atlantic University students that obsession over trivial identity-based sleights has reached an all-time high: My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black…
DetailsRaffle
Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.’ Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’ The farmer…
DetailsDeflation Isn’t a Danger
The fear of deflation serves as the theoretical justification of every inflationary action taken by the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world. It is why the Federal Reserve targets a price inflation rate of 2 percent, and not 0 percent. It is in large part why the Federal Reserve has more than quadrupled…
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