Monday, December 02, 2013

The Safety Net, Part II

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Private, individual tax-deferred retirement savings are a failure — a noble one, perhaps, but they were sold as a replacement for defined...
Sunday, December 01, 2013

Glory to God in the Lowest

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I love the story of the loaves and fishes. Jesus answers the doubts of his disciples with overflowing love – love not only from Him...

The Safety Net, Part I

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THOSE WHO MAKE A CAREER OF SERVING OUR NATION in the armed forces know that they are earning a nice retirement as they do so. Men and wome...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Question of the day

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What if they gave a culture war and nobody came?
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ruth and Jeremy

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I HEAR COMMENTS SOMETIMES FROM MY CONTEMPORARIES that kids today don’t know the meaning of discipline, that there is currently an epidemic...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Genius in Spray Paint

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Most eloquent graffiti I ever saw, on a wall across the street from the military induction center in downtown Oakland in 1983: "Fuck ...

Quote of the day

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"War is just to those to whom war is necessary. " - Titus Livius Patavinus
Monday, June 03, 2013

To Be Working and Poor in America

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Darksyde at Daily Kos has a poignant post up about what it is to be the working poor in America. I have some personal experience with this,...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

It's a Spiritual Thing, Too

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While much has been written (by the left, at least) of the economic consequences of wealth inequality in the United States, less often menti...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

It is time for America to have an Industrial Policy

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THERE IS A CONCEIT AMONG THE MANAGEMENT CLASS — particularly members of that class who style themselves as left-of-center — that if we just...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Someone Needs to Help the 80%

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ONE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTING FACTOR of the current American economic predicament is that median purchasing power — that is, the inflation-ad...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Locust Capitalism

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SINCE THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980, Democrats passed NAFTA, neglected the Employee Free Choice Act and all but abandoned progressi...