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Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson - who has written 42 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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The Coming of Caesar

Posted on 18 November 2009

We have a problem. This could be “the big one”—bigger than coping with the Ahmadinejads, Kims, and Chavezes of the world and bigger than our current economic woes. Our republic, our society, may be heading for a crackup. We are…

Psyching Out the Stock Market

Posted on 13 November 2009

It is usually the stock market that psyches us out, not the other way around.

There’s something about stocks that turns us upside down. For example, normally when something goes on sale, we tend to buy more of it; yet,…

Sex, Life, and Death

Posted on 05 November 2009

Two summers ago, while passing through an airport, I caught a TV news story: double homicide in Ohio. The victims were a young woman and the nine-month-old fetus she was carrying. The murderer was her lover, the unborn baby’s father.

I…

Cap-and-Trade Update

Posted on 31 October 2009

On Sept. 30, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) unveiled their proposal for cap-and-trade (C&T) legislation. The Senate bill calls for a 20 percent reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions by 2020, and an 80 percent reduction by 2050—targets…

Honduras and the United States: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on 13 October 2009

As this is being written, Manuel Zelaya, the ousted and exiled ex-president of Honduras, is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, having been smuggled there on Sept. 21. His followers acted like the anti-capitalist protesters…

The G-20 Meeting is Over (Thank Goodness!)

Posted on 29 September 2009

Count me among the cynics when it comes to G-7, G-8, and now G-20 meetings. They seem to involve little more than photo ops and platforms for politicians to bore us with platitudinous pronouncements—at great expense to the taxpayers in…

Monetary Madness

Posted on 10 September 2009

China, Russia, et al. are talking about shifting their monetary reserves out of U.S. dollars. Gold has hit $1000 per ounce, even though wholesale and retail prices exhibit a deflationary bias. The United Nations has called for a new world…

The Healthcare Reform Fiasco

Posted on 27 August 2009

Barack Obama ran a brilliant campaign for president. Unfortunately for him, that strategic brilliance did not carry over to his campaign for healthcare reform. His push for greater government control of healthcare has struck a majority of Americans as radical,…

A Trillion Here, a Trillion There

Posted on 20 August 2009

About 50 years ago, Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL) uttered his famous quip, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

Today, we’re talking about a trillion here, a trillion there — a thousand-fold increase…

We Could Use a Man Like Warren Harding Again

Posted on 13 August 2009

The popular 1970s television series All in the Family had a cute theme-song sung by Archie and Edith at the beginning of every episode. One lyric was: “Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.” Well, the show was…

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