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While a lot of the national focus has turned to the health care squabble a minor distraction to these eyes the ongoing scandal of government-sponsored interference with free market enterprise continues to disturb We speak of course of municipal fire departments and a pernicious reliance on govern

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If eloquence was the only measure that mattered in assessing political speeches President Obama hit a home run last night But the President does not wish to be remembered for giving an outstanding speech to a joint session of Congress He wants to be remembered as the President who finally achiev

All I know of the Bishop of Palencia in northern Spain Jose Ignacio Munilla is what I ve raked from Google which isn t much But he s mentioned because I was struck by an answer he gives in an interview to a question about the Spanish Church s failure to prevent the Spanish government s further l

I spied recently a notice for a new journal being inaugurated this fall The International Journal of Illich Studies Especially with the health care debate swirling around us it might be worthwhile to revisit the ex-Monsignor and radical social critic Ivan Illich I had occasion this summer to