Source: The Economist. Democracy is going through a difficult time. Where autocrats have been driven out of office, their opponents have mostly failed to create viable democratic regimes. Even in established democracies, flaws in the system have become worryingly visible and disillusion with politics is…
Specific religious beliefs are now truly and obviously obsolete. Particularly the ones with their monotheistic male dominated cultures. In fact, looking outward as our space tools now permit, these religions will shortly seem to most people as lacking in their wildest projections of beliefs.…
Source: Concordat Watch. Perhaps the greatest benefit from posing as a government is the wedge this has given the Vatican to infiltrate the United Nations. To accomplish this, it has skilfully exploited its three legal identities for the past 75 years. Finally the goal of…
Source: VDARE.com. The Swiss get it! The majority of citizens in this small country recognize that the so-called “right” to migration is devastating this idyllic nation surrounded by the increasingly authoritarian European Union. Unfortunately, as a February 10 article in the Wall Street Journal makes…
Among my Christmas gifts this year I received a book by Kaya Oakes, which I reviewed for Amazon, entitled “Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church.” It raises the eternal question for all of us about what we want to believe about the…
Readers of my December 13, 2013 op ed on dying with dignity might recall my point that Nelson Mandela was quite possibly kept alive for months with special equipment rather than allowing him to die without undue resuscitation. Whether he would have chosen this exit…
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Source: The Intercept. One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of…
Margaret Sanger: Reappraising a Birth Control Pioneer
Source: The Social Contract Press. During her lifetime and in the years since her death in 1966, Margaret Sanger has been the object of vicious media attacks. Today, sadly, so many of our politicians continue…
Keeping Church Separated From Secular Governance Charts A Near Impossible Road
As for the opportunity to use the bully pulpits of all religions to tout political positions, examples are so rife as to hardly bear repeating, but of course they do so daily in overwhelming flows,…
Questions for the European Left
Source: Israpundit. When reporting about Israel, the majority of journalists forget the reporter code of ethics. And so, any Israeli act of self-defense becomes a massacre, and any confrontation, genocide. So many stupid things have…
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