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In Grand Rapids earlier this month
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Eric Scheske
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“In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007,
financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair
stylists, Walmart floor workers and people who had worked on assembly lines and
installed them in “foreclosure expert” jobs with no formal training, a Florida
lawyer says.”
– Robo-signers:
The Evening Eudemon
“When friends called Charles Carroll ”“ the only Catholic signer of the
Declaration of Independence ”“ an “American Cicero,” it was the highest form of
praise. Bradley Birzer notes this, by the way, in his very good new Carroll
biography.”
– ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT: Life in the late republic: The Catholic role in America
Tuesday
Happy Prose
Okay, so I'm supposed to have a smile on my prose. That was a tall self-imposed
order. Fortunately, the pessimistic Lew Rockwell bailed me out. He penned a
large piece that he posted yesterday: The Killing and Reviving of the American
Dream [http://www.lewrockwell.
The Evening Eudemon
“As St. Augustine noted in City of God, Roman success was built not just on
greed, pride and violence. It also flowed from the early Roman virtues of piety,
austerity, courage, justice and self-mastery. For Augustine, these virtues had
an unfortunate and self-defeating basis in paganism. But in
Monday
Twitter
Another Lions game yesterday. I would never attend two NFL games in one year (my
preference: one every 3-4 years), but my boys got free tickets to the first game
I attended a month ago, and these tickets were ordered before the free tickets.
Although I didn'
Old Tiger Stadium
Jack, Michael, and Max on the pitching mound at old Tiger Stadium.
Other pics from old Tiger Stadium earlier today.
Something for Sunday Morning
“Thoughts gather about the soul according to its underlying quality.” The
Philokalia
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But when you recall that one of the first moves by Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler
was to outlaw individual ownership of gold, you begin to sense that there may be
some connection between money, redeemable in gold, and the rare prize known as
human liberty.
- Howard Buffett (Warren Buffett'
The Evening Eudemon
“The teacher's unions are a menace and an impediment to reform. But politics
aside, it takes only a short tour through some of the country's failing schools
to see that reform is desperately needed.”
– “Waiting for Superman”: Sadder than fiction | The Economist (via Instapaper)
“The statistics