The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Are Gentiles Human?

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Marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew .  "Whether a marriage ceremony was conducted or not, it is not considered a legal marriage, an...

Mary: Co-Redemptrix

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Major Premise: All grace comes from God. (dogma) Minor Premise: God enters the world through Mary's womb. (dogma, Theotokos) Conclusi...

Donald Trump: Democrat

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Trump ran as a pro-life Republican even though: " In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat,”  Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitze...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Student Debt

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Student debt is the only debt that cannot be gotten rid of through bankruptcy. This essentially makes those with student loans indentured se...
Friday, December 13, 2019

On the Usefulness of Regulations

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The Two Foundational Rules of System Design:  Systems always produce precisely the results they were designed to produce. What you intend...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Priests of EWTN

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A recent conversation about EWTN brought up the following interesting question: how many celebrity priests has EWTN gone through? This is ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Statues in the Tiber

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Ed Peters, the rather nonsensical canon lawyer who likes to get clicks to his blog, has certainly gone above and beyond himself. He usually ...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

The "Faithless Elector" Problem

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Let me begin by saying the electoral college is a brilliant idea, unmatched anywhere else in the world for balancing political interests, an...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

Immigration and Original Intent

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I love it when "conservatives" argue for Original Intent (tm) on gun control, but then promote Progressive arguments on immigratio...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

How to Get Out of Being On A Jury

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The elites like to control people, and the doctrine of jury nullification breaks their control, so they don't like it. If you ever w...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Vegans and Socialism

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Vegans and socialism go together like peanut butter and jelly, and have for at least a century: " The truth is that, to many people ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Vaccines

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I have no particular brief against vaccines. They work, they reduce and eliminate nasty diseases. They are an important tool in the medical...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

What's Wrong With Designer Babies?

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“What’s so bad about creating designer babies?”  asks John Stossel : “Jenna Bush Hager, who's the daughter of former President George ...
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