Links for 02/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 02/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MG: Sadly, many of those who support Obama's immigration work are concentrated into more dense congressional districts - and I bet some who oppose want straight forward amnesty.  I certainly do.



Joel's article is almost light, until you realize that there are some who still believe that 9-11 was a government plot and the scientists who investigated it were liars.  Why is this happening.  Most people take little in High School and fewer in college - and not at a high level - such courses are reserved for majors.  Quite a few of those who did take it did not do well.  No wonder they don't trust science, either they can't understand or want to get even for that D.  Look at the Curia, especially the pro-life branch.  No understanding of Embryology whatsover.  If they understood it, Humanae Vitae would fall in about an hour.  Oops!  You didn't thik I would go there, did you.



Boudway's piece is interesting.  I do know a few libertarians - and left wing ones to boot - having served as a contributing editor for The Free Liberal online magazine.  A few, like me, are Catholic and the one who most definitely is is pro-life and does not disavow liberty.  Indeed, a few of us are part of what is called the Libertarian Reform caucus - which has taken some of the nonsense out of the Libertarian Party platform.  Of course, the libertarians that are the subject of the article are not LP members (who are, by the way, as likely to be pro-life as Ron and Rand Paul - wh are strictly so - although the plan to enforce this has not really gelled), they are, like the Drs. Paul, Republicans - with an anti-tax, but with also an anti-militarist theme.  Some of them can also be called corporatists or anarcho-capitalists - who think if only capitalists were unchecked by government, all would be well automatically in the working of the market.  I don't believe it either.  It seems that some people not only don't like science, they don't like history or economics either.



Thanks to MSW for the last gasp of Gloria, et al - unless we save the column.