Links for 06/17/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 06/17/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Berkowitz demonstrates his neoconservative credentials in attacking the boycott movement as it relates to Israel and the territories.  He would have a point if the Likud chose an Israeli Arab to lead it and the Kinneset.  That even suggesting this would leave people dumbfounded makes the point of the boycotters.  Indeed, if Israel did not welcome Palestinians to work in those ugly and inconvenient jobs in Israel then send them back every night (unless they are blockading them and depriving them of work and food, he might have a point about apartheid or the lack thereof.  Still, I am not a boycotter, I would prefer acquiring a controlling interest in companies in offending countries and in that nation's debt and then use that leverage to demand change.  Berkowitz makes it sounds like we need to simply determine borders and sleeping arrangements, taking care of the situation and moving on.  Israel is what Ferguson used to be, a Sundown Town.  Time to change, and if the political establishment and its defenders find the suggestion that change is needed to be a form of anti-Semetism (funny, since I am Samaritan-Roma), something stronger is essential.



Acton is in Grand Rapids, conservatism central.  Still, as someone who at least does not scorn the concept of liberty - especially when it relates to the autonomy of the conscience and its use in discerning natural law, as well as my Catholicism, I might have found this fun - as long as someone was paying.  Still, libertarianism without some form of socialism, Catholic or not, is incomplete.  Indeed, socialism without a healthy respect for personal autonomy is also something to be avoided.



Trump is a pompous clown, which is hard to carry off with a straight face.  Its not Dr. Carson doing performance art, its Trump.  Leading his announcement by attacking Mexico is about the worst thing he can do to help the GOP survive in the long term or win elections in the short term, particularly in 2016.  The evening news was nice to him, not repeating his screed of financial self-congratulation.  He is the magnification of Carli Fiorina and Harman Cain.  Lets hope he is the last - or at least the last capitalist to do it.