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From Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude The solitary life is above all a life of prayer. We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also,…
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So California is just the latest state to consider secession; Texas talked about under President Obama, and since the 90s there have been active secessionist groups in several states. They would do well to consider the lesson from history by studying what happened to South Carolina in 1860. In November 1860, immediately after the election,…
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“I use throughout [his book The Road to Serfdom] the term “liberal” in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by the muddleheadedness of…