The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Why Libertarianism is Stupid

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Libertarians don't want "big government" interfering in private contracts. This creates certain problems for the libertarian. ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Politics of Greed

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Seen on the Web: The "that guy has more than us" narrative is getting old. Stop adding up the wealth of the poor to "prove ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

An Open Letter to Donald Trump Supporters

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To Donald Trump supporters: Donald Trump said you would be fine with him murdering someone in the street. He could shoot someone in the...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Why Hillary Will Still Win

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Is it worth the trouble it takes to vote? Seems to me, the North Koreans and Russians will elect Hillary .
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Pope Benedict vs. Traditional Catholics

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Your Holiness, please at least acknowledge that the sacraments and discipline we adhere to was the universal norm of the Catholic Church fo...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Income Inequality and Human Dignity

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God bless the secularists, but they are completely at sea. They are trying to resolve the problem of human dignity and income inequality, bu...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Why Homosexuals Are Poor

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Because Andy Rooney doesn't know how to read Scripture? First, the largest charitable organization in the world is the Catholic C...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Bad Idea: A Constitutional Convention

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A lot of people propose creating a constitutional convention to "fix" the problems in our current Constitution. For some reason, c...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Liberty Health Share

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If you need better health insurance than you have, check out Liberty Health Share . We pay $450/month for a family of six. It has a $1500 ...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Nullification: An American Tradition

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There are people who get upset because juries have the ability, nay the right, to refuse to convict someone of the violation of a law if tha...
Monday, December 14, 2015

How Excommunication Works

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Question: How does excommunication work? Based on the words of Christ Who said what is bound on earth is bound in heaven and what is loos...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Guns in the Constitution

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A lot of people don't like the Second Amendment to the Constitution. They argue that if the Second Amendment really means what it says, ...
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Mary Did You Know???

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Some Catholics are concerned about the blog post of a Jesuit priest which lambastes a Protestant Marian song because it supposedly contains...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Lessons from the Planned Parenthood Shooting

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Seen on the web: "What I've learned seeing the recent flood of left wing posts about the planned parenthood shooting : Suddenly...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

America's Body Dysmorphia

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" For most people , going blind is their worst nightmare, but for this North Carolina woman it was a dream come true.   Jewel Shupin...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

How Safe Are America's Mosques?

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According to 1998 State Department testimony by Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, “80% of American mosques teach extremism”. The Center for...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

The Wonders of Tautology

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Evolutionary theory says that the fittest survive. How do we know which are the fittest? Well, they are the ones that survive. I am not a ...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Do Books Think?

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I don't buy into the AI concerns. When I was taking my computer science degree, I asked one of my profs (a huge AI fan) the following qu...
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Mizzou: The Free Market At Work

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The Mizzou protests continue to capture the attention of the nation. Many people are upset because the adults (and they are adults) who pro...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

MIZZOU's Political Fumblerooski

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The Mizzou controversy is fascinating precisely because so much hoaxing is going on with both sides. Sure, the entire controversy is almost ...
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