If You Can Successfully Get SNAP Out of KFC, I'll Listen
Until that obvious and flagrant and massive fraud is remedied, I'm afraid any argument for more government action is laughably absurd
Topic
History
A collection of 254 issues
California was a Hot Bed of Libertarianism
Given the ideological condition of the Golden State today, it must've been the most-failed ideological movement in history
My opinion of Gavin Newsom, Eric Garcetti, and other imbecilic politicians in California is strongly colored by Joe Rogan, who has an extremely low opinion of them. So whereas
Science and Magic . . . And Math
This is a great historical tie into Part II of Existence Strikes Back and its observation that modernity's momentum began to build in the 13th century, as Western civilization's capacity for control increased. Magic and science were twins in the cradle of modernity. This essay points
What the Ape Man Can Teach Us About a Common Mental Mistake
Pithecanthropus is the ape-man. He's also known as the Java Man and the Peking Man. Latin-loving scientists call him Homo erectus, Homo modjokertenses, Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Pithecanthropus robustus, and Pithecanthropus dubius.
He is the creation of Dutch physician Eugene Dubois. In the 1890s, Dubois discovered a few
2024: 800-Year Anniversary of the Franciscans' Arrival in England
The year 2024 marks the eight-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in England of the Friars Minor, sent personally by Saint Francis of Assisi, and the establishment of England’s first Franciscan friary in Canterbury in 1224. The Franciscans followed the Dominicans, who had already arrived in England in 1221,
The Rise of the Holy Men
So holy men left. They left for the desert and became the forerunners of the monks, though these early counter-culture revolutionaries were “in some ways less comparable to modern monks and nuns than to modern drop-outs, supporters of gurus, or others . . . who abandon the conventional world . . .”. Gibbon, The
1273: Apex of Western Civilization
December 6, 1273.
That's the date St. Thomas Aquinas had such an intense experience or vision during Mass, that he stopped writing.
For 35 years, Aquinas had used the written word to explain pretty much everything. He provided proofs of God's existence that atheists still struggle
The Importance of Manners
💡George Washington, the first President of the United States, was known to have studied a book called Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation. This book was based on a set of rules compiled by French Jesuits in the 16th century and was a guide to proper
Britain’s Oldest Pubs—Some Over 800 Years Old—Still Open
from Epoch Times
No Room in the Inn — What Inn?
Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative