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Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers SOURCE: CBS NEWS “Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago.” That’s how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today. The unequal economy that’s emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care […]
US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low: What’s Behind the Decline? SOURCE: LIVESCIENCE The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, about 3.8 million babies […]
Finland’s Welfare State Has a Massive Baby Problem SOURCE: BLOOMBERG The number of newborns has fallen to its lowest level in 148 years By Raine Tiessalo September 18, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT From You know you’ve got a problem when even the best don’t have the solution. Finland, a first-rate place in which to be a mother, […]
The anonymous author was a Carthusian monk of a French charterhouse who wrote in the 1940s. Meditation: …We know only too well the selfishness that is paramount in the world. The number of those who know how to give themselves (and want to do so) is not legion. This is because our “being” is so […]
John Quincy Adams on Islam: In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, [ Editor’s Note: Mohammed] combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and […]
Man should order himself towards independence. Obviously a man must be a part of a team or community (that is not the point here). Being a strong member of a team begins with your strength as an individual. The strength of the collective flows from the strength of the individual.
Those who might believe that redistribution of wealth by the state is something that the Catholic Church endorses should read: RERUM NOVARUM ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR Of note: 4. To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man’s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with […]