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From the Catholic Anarchy Archives

Anarchy and Democracy In June 2007, Michael Moore was promoting his movie Sicko. In an interview with U.S. News & World Report, he said he wanted government to take over health care. In response to potential objections about big government, he said, “[G]overnment is supposed to be of,

Looting Bush

I listened to a fascinating podcast at Lew Rockwell yesterday: Russ Baker on The Looting Bush Family [http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-02-16_101_the_looting_bush_family.mp3] . Baker has written a polemic against the Bushes. The book's basic premise: the Bush family

The Sign of the Coward

“A brave man is also patient.” Thomas Aquinas. Those two chairs–bravery and patience–don't go together in most people's intellectual living room, but if you consider them for a few minutes, you see they match. What prompts impatience? The fear of loss: loss of time,

From the Notebooks: Feature Essay

Stepping Out with the President Back in 2007, the secularists were giddy over the possibility that three of the big-name Republicans contemplating a presidency run have questionable pasts: John McCain (affair, divorce), Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce), and Rudy Giuliani (divorce, affair, divorce). One writer refers to them as

Election Tuesday

I don't hold out much hope for McCain, but he has made up a remarkable amount of ground these recently. According to the Yahoo Election page, at least three states have turned red in the past three days, and McCain has closed the gap considerably in many key

From the Notebooks. Feature Essay

The Social Law My son and daughter are teenagers. The prospect brings back one recurring memory: my teenage years. And it's more than a little disconcerting. I wasn't a bad teenager, but I did things that would simply be unacceptable today. I'm referring primarily

Best Election Blog Post of 2008

Four ways Obama will raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/senator_obamas_four_tax_increa.html]. Excerpt: > The first loophole was easy to find: Senator Obama doesn't "count" allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse as

From the Notebooks

Why I Don't Know What I Am Conservative? Liberal? Republican? Democrat? Libertarian? Is it me, or is it a topsy-turvey political scene out there? I can't look at any group and say, “I think like they do.” I can look at a few and say, “They

A New Form of Anarchism?

When most people hear “anarchist,” they think violence, maybe rage, maybe disruptive attempts by groups like Weatherman to overthrow the United States government in the 1960s. People with a literary bent might think of the dynamite-toting Russian anarchists that Fyodor Dostoyevsky [http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=14-06-013-v]