Recently I encountered the inane phrase “redistribution of wealth.” We all know that it refers to the evil plan of…
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Confidently commenting on the execution of Libya’s long-time dictator, Barack Obama stated that “the death of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi showed that…
The Occupy Wall Street movement has yet to define itself, and remains in a state of flux and complexity. Commentators…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ, the EU’s supreme judiciary instance) [last Wednesday] issued a judgment (C=34/10, Brüstle vs. Greenpeace) clarifying that…
After nearly a decade of deployments, surges, and setbacks, after thousands of lives lost and over one trillion in taxpayers…
The important piece of news out of Rome today is that the Vatican has allegedly called for a “central world…
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace issued a document today titled, “Toward Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems…
I recently came across a perennially timely quote by William Penn — the colonial American proponent of democracy and religious freedom…
There is a lot of talk on the streets and in the media about a thing called “corporate greed.” This…
They say that money is the mother’s milk of politics, and now that the field of Republican presidential hopefuls has…