Author: Gary Richied

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Kingpin Economic Justice

Hard to believe it has been 25 years since the Farrelly Brothers’ comedy Kingpin graced the screen. In a fit of nostalgia for some 90s laughs, I watched it last week. Most of it was still funny. As expected, everything that Bill Murray did and said within that movie as antagonist extraordinaire, “Big Ern” McCraken, is…
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Anatomy of a Disagreement

Why I am an anarcho-capitalist is summarized in this fantastic episode of the Human Action Podcast, hosted by the ineffable Jeff Deist with the great Ryan McMaken. To read Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State is to open up a worldview that I can only equate to going on a hot air balloon ride and…
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FreedomFest Bound

It’s official: I’ll be speaking at the great Mark Skousen’s FreedomFest in South Dakota in July. I’m scheduled to debate the great libertarian Doug Casey on the subject of liberty and Catholicism. Will be standing room only… I’ll also be serving on a panel about Bitcoin. Catholicism and cryptocurrency go well together. Finally, I’m honored…
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Storming the Vatican

Pope Francis is a reprobate and a heretic. He should have been deposed long ago. The Catholic faithful and people of good faith throughout the world really deserve someone who actually has an original thought in his head. We deserve a pope who views Sacred Scripture and Sacred Doctrine not as confining obstacles but rather…
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St. Joseph: Father, Worker, Rebel

He was a skilled carpenter. He wed a woman who was pregnant and not with his child. He travelled with his wife to Bethlehem, and there he witnessed awake what he had only experienced in dreams. He quieted his mind and heart so as to always listen to God and his messengers. He fled to…
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The “I-Word”

During Lent, we Catholics are instructed not to say the “A-word”, i.e. “alleluia”. It’s use is suspended until Easter. In the worlds of politics, economics, and finance, agents this season are leery of using the “I-word” namely “inflation” unless it is a referent to a phenomenon immediately dismissed as unworthy of concern. After all, the…
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Film Review: Fatima (2020)

It must be admitted–albeit reluctantly–that film is an elusive media for the things I hold most dear; namely, Catholicism and the liberty movement. Catholic faith-based films, often in spite of some sizable budgets, come off as overly saccharine, inauthentic and corny. Liberty themed films usually meet the same fate. There are exceptions of course. Mel…
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Report on Bitcoin

The report on Bitcoin for which you have been waiting… 32+ minutes of pure, hard money, economic bliss.  

The Good Sons Versus GameStop

It has been a while since I saw the movie The Good Son (1993) so please do pardon my fuzzy yet necessary and ultimately beneficial recollection of the plot. Essentially, a boy played by Macaulay Culkin has everyone tricked into believing him to be a good boy. He has all the airs of a good…
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Contra Cupich

What an embarrassment. Blase Cupich is a priest who was CONSTANTLY at the bottom of his seminary classes–and in the era he attended–that Is quite the feat. One had to almost try to be dense in that collection of low wits. Blase Cupich is a bishop who when in Spokane, urged seminarians in his diocese…
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