Jefferson County, WV. …In December my county will hold a referendum to decide whether or not table games will be permitted at the local race track/slot machine palace. Only two years ago the same referendum was brought before
September 2009
Rock Island, IL…. A reader sufficiently alert to what happens when he reads may sometimes catch a whiff of an incoherent or fragmented self rising up from his glands and escaping at his collar, usually about the time he
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY—Via the Batavia Daily News, Tom Gahr’s lovely essay on walking in Batavia: http://thedailynewsonline.com/articles/2009/10/03/opinion/letters/5993934.txt…
My new book is an anthology of writings on economic liberty. Unfortunately, I’m not actually able to read the published edition, since it is in Romanian. My co-editor, Dr. Ovidiu Hurdezeu, asked me to put this anthology together to introduce…
Claremont, CA.… On the flight home, I read an issue of Delta Sky Magazine that listed the Panama Canal as one of “70 Wonders of the World.” The canal was listed, along with places like the Golden Gate Bridge and
Moorpark, CA…. The first time is not always the best, but it is often the most revealing. The first time I saw Casablanca I brought a borrowed memory of seeing it. “Here’s looking at you, kid” fell on my
Having found fault with Dr. Iliff’s admirable efforts, it is incumbent on me to show whether distributism has any real answers or practical plans. There can be no question that the health system is in need of reform. Some sign…
Adding to the many discussions thus far here at FPR about the ongoing health care debate, an open question, especially directed to Messrs Stegall, Medaille, and Iliff:
How should a distributist or localist or communitarian in America feel about proposals…
Above: The Empire State Building lit red and yellow in honor of sixty years of Chinese Communism.
Below: What is really going on … “Say loud!”…
FPR’s friend and contributor on his home blog:
The way I see it, unless you’re a Friedmanesque fiscal conservative and genuinely believe that any possible health care reform which comes out of Washington DC will positively bankrupt us once and…
“The burqa is not welcome in French territory,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a June 22nd speech at Versailles. He was referring to the head-to-toe garment worn by some Muslim women which covers their faces. It is banned in…
Rock Island, IL…
In the introduction to Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey denied any interest in “true underlying reality, having never met any.” “I am pleased enough with surfaces,” he said; “in fact they alone seem to me to be of
Greet the newest columnist for “The Hoya,” Georgetown’s biweekly student newspaper. In today’s column (which runs fortnightly), I question whether the current academic swooning over “globalization” is the newest iteration of “the secularization thesis,” i.e., a false and mistaken elite…
Kearneysville, WV.… At 10:00pm on New Year’s Eve 2008, just as his shift was ending, Patrick McCarron was asked to turn in his badge and keys and to clean out his locker. This was his first official notice that his
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Rock Island, IL…
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