Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Minsky
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/why_capitalism_fails/?page=2
Friday, August 28, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
"HOW LOOKING POOR BECAME THE NEW STATUS SYMBOL"
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9418
Sunday, July 19, 2009
"Methland"
This is a great example of what can happen when capitalist corporations buy out smaller companies and suppress the previously livable wages to a below livable level, forcing workers to put in more hours in order to survive. Then the workers take meth to cope with the stress of long working hours. I think that this factor should be brought into the debate over illegal drugs use in American cities: we should look at multiple variables instead of blaming the problem simply on lack of drug interdiction caused by insecure borders.
And, yes, this does put yet another nail in the coffin of secular, finance capitalism (as if it needed any more).
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Food Act of '09
Saturday, June 13, 2009
"A Study in Contrasts: Ave Maria University and the University of Notre Dame"
"The other University named for Our Lady honors only those who recognize and embrace the truth concerning the dignity of every human life at every age and stage."
Friday, June 5, 2009
Chesterton on Vows
"The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words -- 'free-love' -- as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-favoured grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. They give him every liberty except the liberty to sell his liberty, which is the only one that he wants."
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Mary Ann Glendon - A True Hero for Ethics
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2009/04/glendon_decline.html
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Glendon
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Quote
-Saint Augustine
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The USCCB on Climate Change
http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/globalclimate.shtml
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Skin Cells soaked in Proteins
http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20090427/ding.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/21/AR2005082101180.html
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Technology allows workers to be highly productive from home
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/kanter/2009/04/stay-home-and-work.html
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
He brings division, not unity or hope: radical left VS. the radical right
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
Pope John Paul II on Cunsumerism
http://www.acton.org/publications/randl/rl_article_321.php
Letter to the Editor
Read my letter by clicking here.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Thomas Storck on Distributism
http://distributism.blogspot.com/2009/04/distributism.html
Friday, April 17, 2009
Easter Pix 2009
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/easter_2009.html
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Where will this so called "scientific" idea lead?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm
Friday, March 27, 2009
The Pope's comments on AIDS
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6172
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
what if......
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Obama's anti-life actions thus far
On January 23, President Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy, Reagan’s presidential order which removed American tax-payer funding of international abortion-imposing organizations.
The FOCA is out of touch with the view of the American people on abortion. A survey conducted last year by the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion indicates that a mere 8% of American voters favor no restrictions on when an abortion can be performed during pregnancy. With these polling numbers in mind, how can our leaders so easily succumb to the will of abortion-inflicting special interest groups, such as Planned Parenthood Federation of American and NARAL, and continue in their relentless support of this far reaching legislation? If the FOCA passes and Obama signs it into law, once again his liberal agenda will triumph over the better moral judgment of most Americans. I Pray to God that he does not sign it. I Pray to God for his Soul if he does. Let us unite and contact our leaders and tell them that we reject the FOCA. Contact your Senators and Representatives today and tell them to vote no on the FOCA.
Beyond Wrong
"Moral turpitude - Disregard for established community standards of right and wrong in the commission of a crime, above and beyond the crime itself." (http://www.legal-dictionary.org/legal-dictionary-m/Moral-turpitude.asp)
If the Marist College Opinion poll is correct about the voting public's view of abortion, then it would seem to me that by endorsing the heinousness of FOCA, Obama is indeend guilty of Moral Turpitude.
Ex Post Facto
http://www.legal-dictionary.org/legal-dictionary-e/Ex-Post-Facto.asp
Primoris Viscus
http://www.legal-dictionary.org/legal-dictionary-a/Actus-Reus.asp