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How Subsidiarity Got Astronauts Home and Gets the Mail Delivered

Like many Americans, my heart swelled with pride as I watched the astronauts land safely in the Gulf of America. The SpaceX rescue of the stranded astronauts ended wonderfully, but it also highlighted an important lesson: why a relatively small company was able to succeed where a governmental bureaucracy (NASA) and its go-to military-industrial-complex contractor (Boeing) could not. That lesson becomes clear when viewed through the Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity.

Only after the intrepi...

It’s a Big Club, and We’re Not Invited

Well, the bloom is off the Trumpenstein rose. It was a giddy start to his second term, where it seemed like perhaps he was finally going to fulfill some of his many promises. With people like RFK, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel in his cabinet, and the initial DOGE disclosures, it was hard not to feel at least some bit of optimism.

But the warm and fuzzy rush of hope has subsided. We still hear snatches here and there about some new DOGE disclosure, some outrageous waste of taxpayer money...

Is Negotiation the Best Way To End the Proxy War With Russia?

Negotiations have many downsides, such as disputes over compliance, personality conflicts, arousal of anger and contempt, involvement of the egos of the negotiators, and negotiations have not served Russia well. Already Ukraine has violated the partial ceasefire agreement Putin made with Trump:

“A gas pipeline supplying the European Union is on fire in Russia due to an Ukraine Drone strike. A massive pillar of flames is visible near the Kursk(Russia) – Sumy (Ukraine) border. Meanwhile, Russia’s ...

The Last Resort

Surely you know the old joke: “What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” (Answer: “a good start!”). There’s a reason why lawyers are so broadly despised. Law is humanity’s instrument for creating order out of the terror and chaos of nature, where anything goes. The result of law theoretically, is a civil society, where only the good, true, and right things can go.

These days, lawyers are hard at work to replace civilized order with the terror and chaos of nature — which is t...

Germany’s Long Road to Liberty

The recent German election saw a new party, Alternatives for Germany, break through the established power structure and become the second strongest force in parliament. The AfD are libertarian-conservatives favoring less government and stricter asylum laws. They also call for an end to the NATO-sponsored wars of regime change that have generated waves of refugees fleeing the violence in their homeland.

Germany has taken in millions of these refugees, far more than any other country. This has cre...

Trump and Putin Begin Addressing Cumulated Geo-Strategic Debris… Amidst Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran

Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic – that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?

The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to label the result as ‘positive’. And it did not lead to a breakdown (by virtue of the smallest of concessions from Putin – an energy infrastructure truce) – something easily it could have done (i.e. devolve into impasse – with Trump excoriating Putin...

The Many Disguises of Socialism

In his book, Socialism, Ludwig von Mises warns about the threat posed by socialism to peaceful co-existence and to Western civilization. He highlights the “disastrous wars and revolutions, heinous mass murders and frightful catastrophes” that have been caused by socialist policies, a warning that was also sounded by Friedrich von Hayek in The Road to Serfdom.

Mises goes beyond warning about the destructive nature of socialism, going further to draw attention to what he considers “the main issue,...

Shut Down the Department of Education!

President Trump’s executive order from last week titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” could help bring about a major step toward restoring constitutional government and improving education.

The executive order directs that the secretary of education, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local co...

Transparency on what is in the food we eat

Writes Wayne Goodfellow:

A good start by Robert Kennedy Jr, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

 

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DOGE Blocks 52 Million Earmarked For WEF

Writes Gail Appel:

It’s a beautiful day!

See here.

 

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