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Thursday

All Show, No Substance You want to see how grotesque national politics has become? Check out this passage from an AP story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul] (emphasis added): > Pelosi and four committee chairmen met with the president Wednesday

From the Notebooks

A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America, the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so

Cool Monday

Coolidge for President! I liked Reagan alright, but I wouldn't say he was truly conservative. To find a truly conservative president, you have to journey all the way back to the 1920s. And no, I'm not talking about Hoover. Not at all. The man was far

Monday

Breitbart Who is ACORN's scourge, the lion of the online right, Andrew Breitbart? He's 40, went to Tulane, grew up in Hollywood, worked for Drudge, knows Huffington, had a conservative awakening when he was 22, and hates the relentless left-wing bias of the MSM. The

Tuesday

Making Fun of The One? The comedians are supposedly beginning to make jokes about Obama [http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/latenight-comedians-turning-obama-20091011] . That's gotta be hard for them, like joking about one's own mother, but maybe they're

Monday Miscellany

Flirting with Libertarians? Thank goodness. From U.S. News & World Report: "Rising opposition to President Obama's healthcare proposals may be morphing into something broader and deeper: an anti-Obama movement that could jeopardize the president's political standing, damage the Democratic Party, and give the

Brews You Can Use

B is for Beer A new children's book about beer [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061687278/thedailyeudem-20] (inspired by this cartoon [http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sitetype=2&sid=123571&pid=1003&did=4] ). Actually, it's a children&

Risk Taking

Rage in the Manhattan Cage I saw a piece from New York Magazine making cyberwaves last week, but I decided not to post about it until I had a chance to read it. I read it during my nephew's baseball game on Saturday: The Wail of the 1%

Brews You Can Use

Bar Hopping with the Left My Dad used to subscribe to Esquire, but he said it simply turned too leftist for him (gentlemanly living for Communists?). Nonetheless, they have a good drinking page, which I stumbled across earlier this week: Esquire Drinks Database [http://www.esquire.com/drinks/]. It'

From the Catholic Anarchy Archives

Anarchy or Subsidiarity? The anarchist welcomes the Church teaching of subsidiarity, which says the smallest units of society ought to handle whatever they can, with the larger units getting involved only when the smaller units can't handle something. “Right on,” says the anarchist. And the smallest unit of