Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history. How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to...
"Social Justice is a Modern 'Hybrid,' Not a Christian Virtue...shifts the focus from individual virtue [& Heaven] to an abstract, structural obligation of the state to guarantee equal conditions...'politics of compassion' serves as a powerful engine for the expansion of state power"
Google AI overview: 1 Fr. Ernest Fortin —a prominent Catholic theologian, political philosopher, and student of Leo Strauss — extensively used Clifford Orwin’s essay " Compassion " to launch a profound critique against the modern Catholic concept of "social justice" . [ 1 ] Writing in works like Classical Christianity and the Political Order and his collected essays, Fr. Fortin explicitly cited Orwin to argue that modern Catholic social teaching had unknowingly abandoned its classical, Thomistic foundations (rooted in virtue and the common good) and replaced them with a secular, "politics of compassion" inherited from Jean-Jacques Rousseau . [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] Fr. Fortin applied Orwin's insights to the problem of social justice across three major areas: 1. Social Justice is a Modern "Hybrid," Not a Christian Virtue Fortin famously argued that "social justice" is a modern, 19th-century invention rather than a traditional Christia...