Friday, August 30, 2013

News from the Network, Vol. 6, No. 35

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As the capitalists and socialists continue their past savings-based “tastes-great-less-filling” argument that mana...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Different Strokes for Different Popes

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There’s a lot of fuss being made both inside and outside the Catholic Church about Pope Francis’s “simplicity” com...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Bono and You, Too, IV: A Deeply Spiritual Materialism

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As we saw in yesterday’s posting, one of the problems with organized relief for “the poor” is that it gives the people whose job it...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Bono and You, Too, III: The Highest Charity

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Yesterday we noted that the usual sorts of foreign aid to alleviate poverty do just that: they alleviate it, they do not, despite t...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Bono and You, Too, II: Does Charity End Poverty?

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In last Thursday’s posting we viciously attacked rock icon Bono of the Irish group U2, a name that sounds like the Hun invading.   ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

News from the Network, Vol. 6, No. 34

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Those of you who have been paying close attention to this blog and a little bit of buzz around the internet know t...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Bono and You, Too, I: Is Bono, uh, “Kidding” Us?

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Bono of the Irish rock group U2 (who has nothing to do with Cher) strikes us as someone who is both extraordinarily charitable and ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

How Not to Answer a Question

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A couple of weeks ago somebody posted a . . . “meme” we think it’s called? on our FaceBook page.   That doesn’t sound right, but it...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Slavery of Past Savings, II: Some Basic Finance

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Anything that has a present value can be put into a contract as “consideration” — the inducement to enter into a c...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The Slavery of Past Savings, I: How to Finance Growth

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Last week a member of the network forwarded a link to an article on cooperatives.   The article details many of t...
Friday, August 16, 2013

News from the Network, Vol. 6, No. 33

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Breathe easy.   The CIA has just released a report on “Area 51” in Nevada.   In a stunning revelation, it has abso...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Dos and Don’ts of Urban Renewal

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Evansville, Indiana, has reached a deal to construct a $74 million convention center that is expected to revive the downtown area a...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Abortion, Slavery, and Private Property, III: Scott versus Sandford, 1857

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Scott v. Sandford in 1857 — the notorious Dred Scott case — effectively shifted the determination of who is a person (and thus who...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Abortion, Slavery, and Private Property, II: Cotton is King

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The invention of the cotton gin changed everything as far as slavery in America was concerned.   Suddenly, where i...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Abortion, Slavery, and Private Property, I: The Economics of Slavery

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The connection between abortion, slavery, and the decline of private property is not accidental.   Life, liberty, ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

News from the Network, Vol. 6, No. 32

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The news is a little thin this week, possibly the “dog days” or the “silly season” for news — or maybe it’s the lull before the sto...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Shakespeare Speaks! (Again)

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Yesterday’s posting, “Was John Paul II a Socialist?” excited a little comment.   After posting it, I began to have second thoughts ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Was Pope John Paul II a Socialist?

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Someone recently sent us a link to an article from the Houston Catholic Worker , Volume XXVI, No. 2, March-April, ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

An Interesting Approach, But It’s Not Us

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In The Transcribed Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye , “Nancy” (Betty-Jo Biolofsky) has managed to get hold of ...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Long Live Dead Animals!!

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A while back in an article on the dangers of immigration we saw a sign on an ethnic restaurant advertising some kind of vegetarian ...