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Eric Scheske

Some Good Late Night Lines

Conan: 'President Obama gave a nationally televised speech about Libya. The speech was titled, “No, I wasn't born there.'" Kimmel: "President Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, he sent the Navy in to shoot at pirates in the Indian Ocean, and now he'

Wednesday

C.S. Lewis was a very good debater. He wasn't as viciously clever as Belloc, nor as disarmingly effective as Chesterton, but he was good. They say he never lost a debate while at Oxford. Until he ran into Elizabeth Anscombe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E.

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly This guy broke into Auschwitz. Perhaps the best link in today's post. . . . more>> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8388863/I-was-the-man-who-broke-into-Auschwitz.html] And Germany still can't get over the Nazis. Is

Monday

More Hans Hans-Hermann Hoppe might be the most original thinker on the face of the earth today. Over the weekend, I found this lengthy interview [http://www.thedailybell.com/1936/Anthony-Wile-with-Dr-Hans-Hermann-Hoppe-on-the-Impracticality-of-One-World-Government-and-Western-style-Democracy.html]

Something for Sunday Morning

"We can do no great things--only small things with great love." Mother Teresa

Friday

Drunk Dating What's the hardest part of giving up drinking? The buzz? The relaxation? The good times? The taste? Nope. If you're single, it's the difficulty of dating, according to this guy [http://www.salon.com/life/life_stories/index.html?story=%2Fmwt%2Ffeature%

Wednesday

The Ruling Class You've seen cyber-lists about the horrible state of the U.S. economy. This site [http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/rich-vs-poor-14-funny-statistics-and-14-not-so-funny-statistics-about-this-economic-recovery] has taken the exercise one step further: it has juxtaposed

TEE

The Evening Eudemon JPMorgan: "The Likelihood That The Portuguese Government Will Fall This Week Looks High" Link [http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jpmorgan-likelihood-portuguese-government-will-fall-week-looks-high] . Supreme Court Gives Fed 5 Days to Release Emergency Bank Loan Details; An Important Step in the

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Four minutes of chess. If no winner, three minutes of boxing. It's chess boxing. Iceland. . . . more>> [http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/03/chess-boxing/] Josef Pieper, we hardly knew thee! And the author of this otherwise fine piece about leisure

TEE

The Evening Eudemon Related to this morning's post: "The United States Department of Justice delivered a very clear and unfortunate message on Friday: 'Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism. While these forms of anti-government