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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, 34, lives in Kents Store, Virginia and is Supervisor for the Columbia District of Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Category Archives: Culture
Foreign Affairs: Poker Lessons From Richelieu
ShareAn incomparable diplomat, Cardinal Richelieu more nationalist than statesman or prince of the Church: For the next two decades, Richelieu was a crucial player in French and European politics, but with his position resting on his ability to please and … Continue reading
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New Statesman: Atheism and Childish Certainties
ShareGreat line in The New Statesman in a review of de Botton’s Religion for Atheists: The paradox of an immensely powerful mind mistrusting the intellect is not new. Pascal needed intellectual humility because he had so many reasons to be … Continue reading
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Best National Anthem Ever…
Share Whitney Houston, dead at age 48.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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