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Iraq Calls for Suicide Squads to Strike American Targets & Interests No need to be concerned though. They haven’t actually done anything yet, so self-defense is out of the question.

Like Bill Clinton in the 8th year of his administration… Jim Post of Voice of the Fuddled continues to try to figure out what the hell their core beliefs are and assure everybody that it’s all under control and the critics are evil people conspiring against reform, not intelligent Catholics who agree that the Church [...]

Apropos recent discussions of Jew-hatred among Christians Marvin Olasky, who was raised in Judaism and is now an Evangelical, has some rather sensible things to say on what Christians can learn from Judaism. The piece reminds me again of how close the Jewish and Catholic worldviews are in so many ways. I hope Olasky becomes [...]

More money paid out to sex abuse victims I wonder how much will be paid in the end?

I don’t recall likening the coming war with Dresden but… a reader writes in with some intelligent comments: I was struggling with the comparisons you and others made regarding the Dresden bombing and the Iraq War plans. I was thinking if Dresden’s bombing was really morally unjustifiable and the Nuremberg trials were about bringing justice [...]

No evidence for an Iraqi connection to terrorism? Reeeeeeally? It’s not proof, but it’s rather compelling.

By the way, after a conversation with a friend I’m now leaning back toward favoring war with Iraq Just keeping you posted. Iraq has violated international treaties signed after the last war and is seeking to build weapons of mass destruction. It has been without inspectors for 4 years and harrassed them while they were [...]

Some people are saying the OKC bombing and 9/11 might be linked to Iraq Let’s go question Timothy McVeigh! This might be a valuable lead. Oh, wait. That’s right. We put him to death.

Capitalism has Something For all your Apocalyptic Needs

Cliff Garner pulls a David Brock Blames everybody else, says he can’t live a lie, then expects that, after a rich full life of keeping people in the dark about his involvement in outfits like St. Sebastian’s, we should now take his word for it that he’s telling the truth. Or rather, that he’s “Living [...]

More on Just War A reader writes: I saw your blog post on the immorality of the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in light of Just War theory. I am inclined to agree with you, but allow me to play the Devil’s Advocate for a moment. Consider this: how applicable is the demand to distinguish [...]