Hot Water History

Better bring choice stuff if one wants to challenge the greatest economists and thinkers of the 20th century, and despite his extended attempt to do so, Christopher Ferrera failed in knocking the Austrian School and its giants--Mises and Rothbard--from their rightly gained perch. Turns out, the economic system most defensive of natural law, property rights, proper consent, social cooperation and free markets weathers every quasi-socialist storm. God detests the false idol of the State. The Oak Park nominal Catholic crew mourns the inevitable closing of St. Catherine/St. Lucy church. The police blotter features a guy on a moped with a serious, self-inflicted headache. Links to Catholic Family News articles on Catholic economics: Christopher Ferrera: https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2025/06/24/the-catholic-economic-debate-against-the-austrian-school/ Caterina Lorenzo-Molo: https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2025/06/23/the-catholic-economic-debate-the-austrian-position/ @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX.

A one-sided, avalanche of lies, false narratives and idiotic logical fallacies: Hope Tucker Carlson was prepared for exactly what he got when he interviewed Ted Cruz on the Senator's full-throated and fully convicted Zionism. The nature of Carlson's smirky responses and queries indicate that he was. Sure, he could have pushed even harder, and Tucker--being far from an isolationist and even further from an an-cap--should have not ceded so much ground, but Gary and Charlie laud him nonetheless. Ted Cruz is a loyal soldier and patriot of the Likud Party of Israel; a Zionist maximalist who seems a bit lost in his native Canada and adopted United States. Lyndon Baines Johnson would be so proud. Oak Parker take to the streets not to protest the closing of Catholic Churches--after all, for them, that's a cause of celebration--but rather to rail against monarchy. Really, it's this particular king with whom they are unnerved, not the previous 20 or so to whom they afforded the most abject obsequiousness. Link to Richied article on Iranian Markets and the Petrodollar: https://hoth2ohistory.com/kish-me-once-kish-me-twice/ www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.com. BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX.

He's just not the bishop we need right now, mainly because Bishop Barron lives in a comfortable church wherein he has made quite the career in vacillating between the heterodox and the orthodox, all the while refusing to recognize the obvious sicknesses that abound. He's an intelligent man, apt at quoting sources both secular and religious--well, so long as said sources do not speak of a demonic infiltration into Holy Mother Church. Suddenly, the words are lost. Dropped a lot of balls in this one; a bunch of obvious opportunities to--dare we say "proselytize"--Tucker Carlson and his audience. Who wants to join a community much less a church where the club's leadership is so deferential to every other team?! Oak Park burns sulphuric incense by celebrating heinous sin and officially becoming a "sanctuary" for it. Pray for radical conversion. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 Buy TRIDENTINE BEER at: www.tridentinebrewing.com. Buy Gary TRIDENTINE BEER at: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied. Pax.

Owen Benjamin airs his masterpiece musical diatribe against the sport of golf; Gary and Charlie then run with the analogy given that successive Chicago City Halls as well as their lap dogs in the City Council have dug quite the financial hole for the Phoenix City. Turns out, eating the proverbial seed corn and hoping in the most irrational of ways that crops will grow nonetheless, is about as good an indicator of a sick culture as any. A second Chicago fire smolders but is bound to erupt. Oak Park and River Forest are still dealing with a homosexual-groomer baseball coach who thinks he did nothing wrong. The Village's united detestation of leaf blowers brings newfound appreciation for them from our heroic hosts. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER; www.tridentinebrewing.com BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER; www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX.

For whom do the alarm bells toll? They sound for us. Pope Leo XIV appears to be confirming very rational fears that he is going the way of Francis church with his approval of a new heretic-bishop for--of all places--St. Gallen in Switzerland and his appointment of a lesbian-nun to a dicastery for religious institutes. All non-canonical. All 'innovations' when we need apostolic tradition. Thomas Massie further embraces an Athanasian spirit in being the lone actual American left in Congress. He sounds the alarm bells over Trump's 'one, big, beautiful bill' that only adds more to the already monstrous federal deficit. Great going, GOP... Oak Park bids farewell to the good Ravi Parrakat and hello to supposed and costly infrastructure improvements. Anyone who has driven down a road in the village will know that it is tough-to-impossible to discern the difference between normal and construction zones. Oak Parkers rarely if ever get what they pay for. www.hoth2ohistory.com @HotH2OHistory @chuckwest20 BUY TRIDENTINE BEER, including their new offering of Second Amendment IPA: www.tridentinebrewing.org BUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER at www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichied PAX.