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Take a Picture: Ink Spots on Ebony A glimpse into the heart of blackness: "A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which

"[T]he will of God is now manifesting itself in those circumstances which are the duty of the present moment. . . . It is the fulfilling of this duty, no matter in what guise it presents itself, which does most to make one holy. . . . For example, if it is God'

A college TDE reader forwarded this public service post: 57 Hangover Hacks Every College Kid Needs to Know [http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/01/20/57-hangover-hacks-every-college-kid-needs-to-know/] . Easily the best hangover site I've ever seen, though they omit the only remedy that has never failed me: the energy

Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard are modern parallels of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. I'm not saying that those three economists are philosophers. But those three 20th-century economists worked within a natural law framework to reach their economic conclusions, just as those three classical philosophers worked within the natural law

Inflation 101 Are you murky on the whole reason that inflation is effectively theft or a hidden tax? If so, you may want to check out this reasonably-short piece: Inflation 101 [http://dailyreckoning.com/inflation-101/]. Excerpt: > For the sake of simplicity, let us assume that America's money-supply

"Today, thanks to the blessings of democracy, citizens of the Land of the Free and other Western democracies pay taxes 5 to 10 times higher than those under the absolute monarchs and submit to rules and regulations that Louis could never have imagined." Bill Bonner. I'd

“Always keep the same measure of self-control; otherwise through irregularity you will go from one extreme to another.” The Philokalia

Watch for tomorrow's First Reading at Mass. It's one of my favorites. It's the Lord's response when Samuel tells Him that the Israelites want a king. Classic (well, the Bible's always classic, but this is "classic" in the

Miscellany I guess the Vatican is (justifiably) disturbed by the message behind James Cameron's Avatar [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/vatican-slams-avatar-prom_n_419949.html] . The newspaper said it "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." I saw the movie,