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“Are You Nice?”
The Editor reminds everybody to be nice and asks if you have a minute to notice the author's name. New York City is littered with groups with causes, especially since…
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This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time
Because this week has been especially doom-laden, we're pushing up our bulletin a full day. Indeed, conditions were so rank these past seven days that they almost qualify to be…
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What Does Losing Tax Exempt Status Of Churches Mean? Or, The SSM Takedown. Updates
We've been busy with all things sustainability, so it's only now we can get to the Supreme Court's oral arguments over whether to abandon marriage and give over to the…
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Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)
Today's post is at Crisis. The title the editor John Vella wrote is AUs---parsecs, even---above mine. His: "Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm". Mine? "The Church Burns To Jump Into…
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Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates
So the Vatican conference is off and running. I'm not there, and have no insider view, so that best that can be done is to point our telescopes that direction.…
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Why Progressives Believe Global Warming
Everybody believes propositions based on arguments of some kind. All progressives (so far as I know) believe in global-warming-of-doom, defined as if-we-don't-do-something-the-world-boils. What argument are they using? Probably more than…
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How Come The Leftward, Lurching Drift? Riot Update
Because I was on a secret mission yesterday, the regularly scheduled tour through Summa Contra Gentiles has been preempted. It returns next week. The Western world, particularly in these once…
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Sustaining Envy—Guest Post by Jim Fedako
According to Helmut Schoek (Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour), envy is a driving force behind the way societies are structured. And when a society succumbs to the collective force…
