John Reed, father of all PSFs
Katy says: If John Reed were alive today, he would surely be in Caracas reporting the glories of Chavez’s revolution. Say what you will about Reed, at least...
Life
Baduel drops a bombshell...
Quico says: Not much of the day-to-day political give-and-take in Caracas interests me enough to blog about anymore. That said, today’s statement by General Baduel was a no-kidding...
And a happy birthday to you!
Katy says: How will folks like these assimilate into XXIst Century Socialism? One wonders what planet these people live in. Sometimes I think *they* are the real enemy.
Required reading
Quico says: These days, “required reading” is just an empty cliché, a phrase drained of meaning by decades of lazy overuse. Normally, I avoid it. I have to...
Let them grow up
Katy says: Two kids are dead in my hometown of Maracaibo, shot down by the violence that is rapidly creeping into our nation’s soul and changing things forever....
Primero Justicia: an inside peek
Katy says: Eighteen months ago, some friends who work for Primero Justicia called me up and asked me if I would like to help edit the document containing...
Decision Makers
Here’s one more ingredient for my conceptual stew. In this post-2004 election piece for The New Republic, Christopher Hayes describes what it was like volunteering to knock on...
Venezuela's right-wing dictatorship
Katy says: I have been to Venezuela three times in the last year, and each trip brings a new insight into what is going on there, insights that...
Encyclical on the Nature of Human Liberty, 1888
Pope Leo XIII said: The end, or object, both of the rational will and of its liberty is that good only which is in conformity with reason. Since,...
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