One trendy diet lifestyle now making the rounds is part diet, part eco-activism and part religion. It involves more than just counting calories and steps. This craze is beyond fruits and nuts or the eco-friendly hunter/gatherer paleo-paradigm of diets past. Its followers exhibit an almost religious devotion to the earth. They make it their mission … Read more
The name “Global Minimum Tax,” should immediately set off red flags. No American likes to hear the two words “global” and “tax” in the same expression. It implies a surrender of sovereignty to a vague and mysterious world body. They also don’t like to see “minimum” and “tax” together. Experience shows that taxes rarely stay … Read more
People today live in make-believe worlds. They are conditioned to believe they can be or do whatever they want. Usually, such fantasies are limited by the real world. However, modern technologies now facilitate the illusions of making believe by creating illusions. The business world is not far behind by providing products that humor people into … Read more
In a Christian civilization, people are responsible for their acts before God and man. There may be attenuating circumstances that diminish a person’s guilt for crimes or destructive actions. However, the final responsibility always lies with the individual. For this reason, life is full of trials and difficulties. Acts have consequences that people of character … Read more
Marketers typically create excitement around a product to get people to buy the item and the experience associated with it. The greater the hype, the more likely the consumer will get it. Excitement equals profits. Perceived loss translates into a desire to buy. High emotions often trump actual need. However, a new niche market relies … Read more
In Butjadingen, Germany, there exists a farm unlike any nearby. It has animals commonly found on farms—cows, chickens, pigs, geese and dogs. However, the farm exists more to serve the animals than to contribute to the food supply. Hof Butenland, as the place is called, is an animal sanctuary, a kind of retirement home. The … Read more
The way the world treats Cuba is a mystery. There is no other way to describe it. Any ruthless military dictatorship should be denounced and ostracized. In the case of Cuba, there can be no excuse for failing to condemn its human rights abuses and or expose its socialist-driven poverty. Its rabid persecution of the … Read more
For students contemplating college this fall, the time has come to look at other options. So much has changed over the last year that some soul searching about the future is in order. For decades, people have clung to the myth that higher education will automatically result in better outcomes. High school graduates are told … Read more
Wherever the Church acts, She plays a central role in combatting modern errors. Thus, even in these secular times, the left cannot refrain from its irrational wrath against the Church. Because She exists, even in a state of crisis, the left finds ways to attack, vilify and calumniate Her. If the present problems in the … Read more
We are used to thinking about COVID-19 as a health disaster. However, it is also an economic one. COVID suffocates the body by preventing air from entering the lungs. In a COVID economy, we have flooded the system with money and suffocated the nation with debt. The decrees of the Federal Reserve work like a … Read more
