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Has He Gone Completely Insane? Zelensky Announces That There Is Not Going To Be Peace

If you listen long enough, people will eventually tell you exactly what they truly believe. Unfortunately, we have just learned what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky truly believes about the war with Russia, and it is not good news at all. Apparently Zelensky is convinced that there will not be a permanent state of peace until all of Donetsk, all of Luhansk and all of Crimea belong to his government. Needless to say, the Russians will never hand all of Donetsk, all of Luhansk and all of Cr...

The Unseen Cost of Organ Transplants: Ethical Issues and Spiritual Implications

When I first applied for a driver’s license, I was asked if I wanted to designate myself as an organ donor. Given my learned distrust of societal institutions (e.g., medicine) and a few concerning stories I’d come across, I opted to not be an organ donor. However, I also felt quite conflicted about doing so, particularly since I strongly believe in following the golden rule (treat others as you would want to be treated) and knew that if I needed a transplant I would be desperate for the appropri...

President Trump Should Return to an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy

After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us out of the existing ones. Eight months into his second Administration it appears his promise remains to be fulfilled, as his approval rating continues to slip.

On Ukraine, President Trump wisely observed coming into office that the c...

Javier Milei Unraveled

Last week Argentina’s Javier Milei regime tried to roll over bonds by offering investors an insane 69% interest rate, and only succeeded in rolling over 61% of them. Even a 69% annual interest rate isn’t enough to tempt investors to risk lending to the Milei ponzi, which means they either expect a default very soon, or they expect price inflation to exceed 69% over the next year. This was an ice-cold bucket of reality poured on the delusional talk of an economic miracle by the clown who plays a ...

English Poet, Catholic Exile

Were one to conduct a survey of modern-day Americans, taken at random, it is likely that not one in a hundred would have heard of the poet Richard Crashaw. Were one to cross the Atlantic and conduct a similar experiment with modern-day Englishmen, it is likely that the result would be the same. This neglect and ignorance of one of England’s greatest poets says more about the barbarism of the age in which we live than it does about the merits of the neglected poet.

Richard Crashaw (1613-49) was o...

Vatican Sends SSPX Pilgrimage Down the Memory Hole?

You may have heard that the SSPX has joined the Jubilee pilgrims in the Eternal City in the past few days. I remember reading somewhere that when Pope St. John Paul II saw the same pilgrimage process through the streets in 2000, he told Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that the SSPX dialogue needed to be resolved!

I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I hope this procession makes a good impression on Pope Leo. I’m sure it’s made an impression on literally everyone who saw Roman Catholic priests actin...

Is Trump, Like Biden, Politicizing Intelligence?

If you thought that Donald Trump had learned the importance of keeping politics out of intelligence in light of how the intelligence community was used as a tool to attack and subvert his Presidency, think again.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iranian nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer ...

It Is Criminal for Congress to Spend Money We Don’t Have on Unlawful Foreign Aid.

Foreign Aid is unconstitutional and Criminal because there is no Enumerated Power authorizing it in the Supreme Law ofthe Land, our Constitution. Foreign Aid promotes and supports Wars, Bribes, Kickbacks, Revolutions, and generates worldwide hatred of America. The most important fact is that the money required to “help” other nations  is borrowed and stolen from Americans, contributing to crumbling infrastructure and people living in the streets.

Some proponents argue that government has the pow...

US Foreign Policy Is War for More War

There was hope among Trump watchers that, as President, he would not seek war.  He would put America first, bring troops home, and strengthen the US through economic liberty and even – wait for it – sound money!  The most cynical never believed it; Trump haters in both parties didn’t want it, but there is no doubt he lied to the MAGA crowd over and over again.  American First got Donald “war hero” Trump, as he claps for that king of war heroes, Bibi Netanyahu.

Part of the problem is academic.  T...

Can World Peace Get Donald Trump Into Heaven?

Donald Trump recently made a strikingly personal comment:

I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to Heaven, this will be one of the reasons.

By “this” he was referring to his diplomatic work toward peace agreements.

Indeed, Trump has played a major role in brokering recent peace deals in troubled regions—between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ind...