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February 2015

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: Autist

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Last Wednesday, USA Today obtained a 2008 report commissioned by a Pentagon think-tank that postulated long-time Russian President and part-time bare-chested Siberian horseman Vladimir Putin had Asperger’s Syndrome, “an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions.” Further accusations include a citation from a psychiatry professor that “Putin carries a form of autism,” that Putin “carries a neurological abnormality” and that his “neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy.” These reports get mighty specific too: “Today, project neurologists confirm this research project’s earlier hypothesis that very early in life perhaps, even in utero, Putin suffered a huge hemispheric event to the left […]

Monday

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January 2015

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Women’s Liberation is Women’s Prostitution

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What follows is an illuminating anecdote involving a professor, a young female student, and myself. The professor was an excitable and amiable middle-aged man, fairly chubby by North American standards. His swarthy complexion, gleaming bald head and bushy mustache betrayed his foreign ancestry — an Egyptian Coptic Christian from Cairo, long since emigrated to the New World, and long since employed at his hallowed American university, though he had never quite managed to master that standard, saccharine accent of the American Midwest. His Arab speech was deep and gravelly, yet still uniquely colorful. He could not utter a sentence so much as perform it, effortlessly […]

Monday

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January 2015

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Income Inequality Exposed: the Cathedral Lives

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Rising #inequality & climate change are defining challenges of our time. You can help: http://t.co/ONSAl4jeRJ #wef15 pic.twitter.com/B4ee6BVYvf — Oxfam International (@Oxfam) January 16, 2015 Yes, it seems to be true: RT reports that by 2016, the richest 1% of the global human population will control more wealth than the other 99% of the human population combined. Through Oxfam, an “anti-poverty charity,” we learn that: Last year, Oxfam reported that the world’s 85 richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent (3.5 billion people). This year, Oxfam said the reality has become more worrisome, with just 80 people […]

Monday

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January 2015

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Enter the Don Felix Sarda y Salvany: Liberalism is a Sin

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The good Dr. Don Felix Sarda y Salvany (1844-1916) was a Spanish Catholic priest and writer from Spain’s Eastern region of Catalonia. His scribal tenacity was impressive; the Don was the editor of the Catholic weekly journal La Revista Popular for more than 40 years, and in the years leading up to the start of the civilization-ending First World War, he published a twelve-volume series titled Propaganda catolica (“Catholic Propaganda”), dryly described by an unknown Wikipedia contributor as “a vast collection of short books, pamphlets, articles and conferences.” The Italian historian Roberto de Mattei says of the Don Sarda: “[he] was a popular priest […]