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Christine Lagarde and the Privatization of Currency

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Stay Out of the Hospital

Chris Sullivan wrote:

This was as predictable as night following day. As long as some agent has a pecuniary interest in “health decisions” it’s going to decide for itself. Back around 1982 I told a friend of mine that when we got old they would just kill people when they got old because Social Security was going to have more people in the cart than pulling the cart. He told me “You’re crazy, that will never happen.”  When government or an insurance company is making life and death decisions abou...

Hypocrisy Thy Name Is Trump

In some ways it is refreshing to have a president who is so profoundly ignorant that one’s expectations regarding what good policies might actually come out of the federal government are really, really low. It took Donald Trump six months to accept the reality of the slaughter going on in Gaza where Israel is killing roughly one hundred Palestinians every day whose only crime is that they are looking for food, water and shelter. Admittedly Trump has actually been bold enough to challenge his Isr...

The Life Source Missing From Today’s Narratives

In 1761 lawyer James Otis delivered a five-hour speech in a packed Boston courthouse in which he dismantled Parliament’s claim that general search warrants known as writs-of-assistance were constitutionally valid.  Though Otis lost the case his scholarly and fiery rhetoric won the support of onlookers such as 25-year-old John Adams, who near the end of his life wrote about his experience:

Every Man of an immense crowded Audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take Arms against Wri...

Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

‘Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance’.

So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style ‘Jewish nationalism.’

Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming ‘a nasty little Sparta.’

This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by Israel,...

What Can The Smallpox Vaccines Teach Us About COVID Vax Injuries?

When you study history, it’s always striking how frequently dysfunctional cycles tend to repeat themselves—which is why many of us were able to foresee much of what came to pass with the disastrous COVID-19 vaccines. Medicine has its fair share of erroneous beliefs (which frequently have little to no evidence supporting them). Sadly, my profession has held tightly onto them for centuries regardless of the problems those beliefs create and I believe the vaccination meme is one of the most harmful...

From Militant Saints to Modernist Wolves

Today marks the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—soldier, mystic, founder of the Society of Jesus. Once, this name commanded respect from Catholics worldwide. Today, it often evokes embarrassment among the faithful who witness some of his spiritual sons betraying everything he fought to defend.

Yet, Ignatius was a warrior—literally. A cannonball shattered his leg at Pamplona, thus transforming a worldly knight into Christ’s most disciplined general.

His Jesuits were the face of the Church Militan...

Everybody’s Problem

We’ve noted the tendency of insufferable busybodies to make, magnify, or invent messes… and then “solve” those problems by making them worse.

In doing so, the do-gooders enhance their status, inflate their finances, and divert attention from more serious shenanigans happening off-stage. Today we retract the curtain, and shine a light on the prime protagonist of most public pathologies.

Paw Prints

CS Lewis considered Pride the worst of the deadly sins, because it was the source and stimulus of al...

More Irrational Attacks in Our Dysfunctional Society

As I have long maintained, the systems that modern-day Americans have embraced have served to produce a very dysfunctional society. The best manifestation of this dysfunction are the suicides of young people. When youngsters are checking out of life early, that’s a powerful sign that something fundamental is wrong.

There is also the fact that America is a drug-addled society, which is reflected by the fact that the U.S. government still has to maintain a vicious, nationwide drug-war police state...

Take Me To the River

I wear seasonal clothes, eat seasonal foods and like to write about seasonal topics. During the past few weeks, I’ve written about summer experiences. This week, I’ll continue to celebrate this season of daylight and warmth.

Though some days are warmer than we like.

I’ve done much outdoor work in the summer, including as a food and flower grower, garbageman, roofer, landscaper and camp counselor/swim teacher. I’ve also often played sports outdoors. Being out in so much sun has beaten up my skin....