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“I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign… One comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the church.”
– Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (2002)
Pope Benedict XVI—formerly known [...]
“Whenever I see the U.S. government, its subordinate governments, the UN, the drug industry, the CDC, the AMA, the American hospital association–all these vast powers within the medical and scientific world–united in pushing one extremely expensive thing and crushing any dissent, I think its time to have another look.”
Despite their [...]
The Wall Street Journal has published an article on what has now become a distinct genre in political journalism: why libertarians should vote Republican. Normally these articles warrant no rebuttal, amounting to little more than hysteria about “Obama-the-Socialist,” but this piece was written by Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He [...]
If you’re looking for a sober intellectual dialogue on the state of American public policy, don’t watch presidential debates. Tonight’s debate will repudiate every requirement for such a discussion. It will remove serious ethical questions from their philosophical foundations and offer answers fit only for bumper stickers and thirty second soundbites. It will teach us [...]
“These ‘skeptical libertarians’ on Facebook seem to be most skeptical of actual skeptics i.e., people who question the media-approved version of events, or the infallibility of the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, which these alleged skeptics treat like a holy priesthood,” writes author Tom Woods. “I am fine with the scientific method. What I am not fine [...]
“Bilderberg conspiracies have become a handicap for the Liberty Movement,” says conservative commentator Jack Hunter in a recent article. “Bilderberg conspiracy theorists have become a political handicap. The Birthers probably have a few interesting points to make, but this doesn’t change the fact that their argument is toxic. It doesn’t change the fact that their [...]
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