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ShaunKenney.com is one of Virginia’s oldest political blogs, focusing on the role of religion and politics in public life. Shaun Kenney, 33, lives in Kents Store, Virginia and is Supervisor for the Columbia District of Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Category Archives: Culture
Is There a Redskins Game On?
ShareNo? Guess who’s very happy not to be watching football’s version of the Yankees and Red Sox tonight?
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The New Yorker: To What Ends Incarceration?
ShareGreat article in the New Yorker regarding America’s prisons and the sense of “timeless time” that pervades: That’s why no one who has been inside a prison, if only for a day, can ever forget the feeling. Time stops. A … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, National Politics, Virginia Politics
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Pope Benedict XVI and Wealth Redistribution?
Share So sayeth the Huffington Post, ergo it must be true… Noting a “rising sense of frustration” at the worldwide economic recession, Pope Benedict XVI said that a more just and peaceful world requires “adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Culture, Economics, Self-Sufficiency
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Distributist Review: Hard Times in Farm Country
ShareFarmers in Oklahoma are struggling to meet the drought: The news from Oklahoma is that the drought is “officially” extreme, over half the state, and getting worse everywhere else. The fact that we don’t see giant dust clouds in the … Continue reading
LR.com: Walter Williams is Missing The Point…
Share I love reading Lew Rockwell’s daily e-mail. I don’t always agree with the articles he passes along, but they are always good for thought. This one just happens to be one with which I vehemently disagree, where Walter Williams … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, National Politics
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UK Independent: The Book In an Age of Distraction
Share?”The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks,” argues Johann Hari. …with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being gored by the death … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Social Media
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The Feast Day of St. Thomas More
Share “Most would understand the phrase that the mind of More was like a diamond that a tyrant threw away into a ditch, because he could not break it.” — G.K. Chesterton Today is the feast day of St. Thomas … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Culture, Fluvanna, National Politics, Philosophy, Pro-Life, Video, Virginia Politics
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On Memorial Day…
Share IN FLANDERS FIELD In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. … Continue reading
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Curiosity in Philosophy
Share For those with a more philosophical bend, the New York Times as re-started their philosophy column/blog entitled The Stone. To kick things off, Justin E.H. Smith asks whether specialization to the exclusion of curiosity is really all that beneficial … Continue reading
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Baja Arizona and State Secession
Share Every once in awhile, you hear the talk from Northern Virginia about how they pay more into state government than they get back, that Richmond bleeds them dry, and that they should secede from the Commonwealth writ large … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, National Politics
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