Interesting followup to the Joe Carter piece

Another refugee from the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism wakes up:

The Empire will end, whether through voluntary recall of the troops and abandonment of our faith in building the Great Society abroad–or through the collapse of our economy and civilization. If you will not obey the law of God and common sense–you will obey the law of gravity.

On a related note, let me say that Catholics are not bereft of guidance if they turn away from the leadership provided by the disk jockeys and Machiavellians who have taken over the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism. It turns out the Church still has some rather good teachers who not only conserve what should be conserved, but give us help in applying it in sensible ways that put human beings, rather than party or ideology, first. If one is an X-Con who has not connection to history and has been living in the Talk Radio Echo Chamber, one good way of escaping that stultifying and fetid cell is to get in contact with a Tradition that has roots going back 4000 years.