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Politics

You Are Not Your Business
Are Corporations People?

Climate Change and Fundamentalism
Last Days

Textualism and Intentionalism
Scalia's Smoke Screen

One Minute Political Ads
Tell Me More

How to Become President
The Aptitudes Needed

Corporate Free Speech
Satire

Democratic Factions
Analysis

Republican Factions
Analysis

Conservatives and Liberals
The Real Thing?

Phoenix
A Wish for the Parties

Putin and Syria
An Easy Choice

Presidential Skills
What it Takes

Trump
Not a Politician

Radical Activism in the Supreme Court
History Still Matters

Judicial Activism
It Persists, and is Not Always Bad

Patriotism and Citizenship
Contrasts

Government for All
Civic Participation

Voter Management 101
Satire

Top Secret Memo On Iraq
Satire

Border Security and Immigration
A Distinction

The War On Terror As A Bad Metaphor
Disastrous Consequences of Calling It the War on Terror

Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
An Ayatollah's View

Conventional Warfare Against ISIS
Bombing Doesn't Work

Negative Political Ads
Stupid and Inflammatory

Political Ads
The Harmfulness of Negative Political Ads

Abortion
Slogans

Religion

Holy Week
Filled with Scripture

Holding the Cup
Retreat Talk

Drinking the Cup
Retreat Talk

The Catholic Bedroom
What's It About?

The Failure of the Cross
Failure?

Heaven
Do You Really Want To Go There?

Sunday Mass
The Structure

Marriage
Catholic Teaching

Poems

Border Collie
Poem

Being able to say Yes
Mysticism

Hounding Heaven
Poem

When You Come
Advent Hymn

By the Waters of Babylon
Psalm

The Call
Hymn

Two Poems about Machu Picchu
Translations

Je ne regrette rien
Translation

I know you only by the pixels on my screen
Poem

Travel

Historic Mount Vernon
A Great Little Town

Ancient Kingdoms
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam

Turkish Delights
A Trip to Turkey

Passage to India
A Trip to India