Hot Water History

Pope Leo XIV has a lot to say to ice and about ICE. About honoring radical pro-death politicians despite Scripture, Tradition, Church canons, and centuries of papal and conciliar instructions--well, with that, he all of a sudden becomes confused and very, very tight lipped. Modernism, religious and cultural relativism and judaizing all lead to the same destructive ends; namely, the destruction of...

You don't know what you've got until it's gone. Charlie Kirk was quite the rebel, as it turns out, and he was getting all the more rebellious against the status quo and powers that be, so he had to be "dealt with". Requiescat in pace. You fought the good fight. Patience is running out for those who believe the official narrative, all pumped out by the odious and certifiable professional liars in t...

While everyone is falling all over themselves to laud Michael Knowles for his presentation of Catholicism to Tucker Carlson, Gary thought he generally sucked in his interview, besides the occasional therapeutic diagnosis of what ills modern society. Knowles had opportunity after opportunity to refute historical errors about the supposed liberator, Martin Luther, and failed. He then totally dropped...

A deranged tranny--and there is no other kind--shoots up Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis and the pseudo, anti-bishop Blase Cupich rushes to vilify gun ownership. What a tool of all of the demonic powers that be, and as such, he is a perfect representation of the ape, intruder church. It should hearten the awake and the authentic Catholics that, while absolutely sinister, these boomer...

Gary and Charlie deep dive into the subject matters for Gary's next book--due out sometime next year--about Catholicism and anarcho-capitalism. Turns out that it's so radical, no one else of note is ready nor willing to work in the field. Ah, but the field is fertile, my friends. Jacques Ellul and Leo Tolstoy play supporting roles. Oak Parkers write letters to the editors of Wednesday journal. To...

You would think--given the number and kind of scams with which we've been bombarded over the past several years--that debunking the lies and liars would be somewhat heavy lifting. Not so. Perhaps it is because the narratives are so weak? Maybe it's the combined ancap and Catholic lenses through which we view reality? Whatever the case, Epstein didn't kill himself, Covid was a depopulation measure,...

From the guys who brought you ALL OVER THE PLACE 1 comes the long awaited sequel. Gary and Charlie debate whether Gary should attend his upcoming high school reunion, accounting for his passionate desire not to go. Stats and analyses from places like the Financial Times show that, like never before, college is not worth it for men. Maybe for women, but they're going into zombie jobs and careers. I...

The kleptocrats in California pull off yet another heist as people who had their homeowners' insurance pulled, then houses burned, then refused the right of return now wonder aloud where all of the aid money--private and public--has gone. The arsonist and firefighter have both made sure that not a dollar reaches their now-homeless hands. Larceny is always their game. Oak Park, by some miracle, avo...

INVERSION: FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE Is it not oddly fitting that the darkest of forces--demonic, nephilim, human--work to obscure the good, the true, and the beautiful to such an extent that our consciousness of the transcendent is dulled, often beaten to the point of near submission? Ours might be a time, like never before, that requires reliance on divinely enlightened powers; namely, instinct and...

The "bloviator-in-chief" of architecture. Is it not long overdue--in the spirit of Miri AF's "If You Know Their Name, They're in the Game" mantra--to question the supposedly unassailable genius and impact of Frank Lloyd Wright? All the more, modern Oak Parkers have placed him in their invidious, humanistic pantheon, so that status eggs Gary and Charlie on all the more. A great architect in his own...

Hard to believe but it has been three years since the release of A TWISTED HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1450-1945 and not only does it still ring true, the resonance is deafening. Synchronicity. Just as Trump's GOP Big Beautiful Omnibus Bill passes through the ever-impish Congress, 2025 marks the first year in American history that purely interest payments and non-discretionary spending will exce...

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 f...

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...

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 i...

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...

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 Ma...

Habemus Papam, but the real question is: Just what kind of a pope will he be? Early indications and Leo XIV's own words do not point in the right direction. Red flags abound from his previous statements, actions and inaction as bishop, and the men who elevated him to the papacy; namely Deep Church maidens Blaze Cupich, Robert McIlroy and Oscar Maradiaga. The Lord is telling us to rest not and to g...

What do communism and an Army helicopter pilot on the incompetent-to-deranged-to-kamikaze spectrum have to do with one another? A lot, as it turns out. Diversity, equity and inclusion has, after all, never been fully tried or implemented either, but its effects are sure being felt. Back when we had an actual pope, Pius XII recognized well that unlike St. Joseph, communists and socialists want ever...

What a relief. The Francis pontificate has come to an end, and despite Jorge Bergoglio, S.J.'s best efforts, the Church persists. There's a lot to be thankful for as Charlie and Gary reflect on the true Francis effect. God granted immense and powerful graces during this scourge, especially since Bergoglio served as a great demarcator; if you allied with him and saw him as a 'trailblazer' or 'apost...

In anticipation of some hot summer days, The Catholic Boys of Sound Economics (featuring a Jew nonetheless) replace the ol'Chicago Boys to refresh our holy understanding of the not-so-dismal science. Gary opines that Murray Rothbard's MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE reinforces fundamental Catholic doctrines pertaining to divine law, natural law, and human cooperation. All truth--especially of the most pro...

Heretics and apostates gravitate to the State because it fits them and serves their true master's needs. It strikes at individual rights, human freedom and even at the division of labor. Alternatively, true anarchism which is capitalism, and true capitalism which is anarchism shine as imaginative yet attainable alternatives, especially for those nauseated by the propagandized status quo. Gary's pr...

City finances and economic doldrums have real effects: restaurants shuttered, businesses seeking greener pastures, and commercial districts empty. Chicago appears to be on the accelerated path of Old Detroit from the 1970s and 1980s. Thus is always the unavoidable path when government insinuates itself into every nook and cranny of what would otherwise be a functioning free market. There is a magi...

Grok A.I. says that Gary sounds and writes like the great H.L. Mencken, and Gary is just plumb honored. Blush inducing. After introducing Mencken, both he and Charlie analyze some prominent and eloquent quotes from the eminent son of Baltimore. Mencken humbled more fools and crumbled more bad arguments than fellow Baltimorean Edgar Allen Poe offed characters in his stories. Quoth the Mencken, ever...

Conor McGregor visited the White House on St. Patrick's Day to report that the apparatchik-snakes have returned to the island in the form of parliamentarians and ministers. The doors were swung open by a purposeful abandonment of Christ the King in Ireland (and indeed greater Western Europe) in favor of a 'messianic megalomania' authored by the likes of Bill, Keir, Ursula, and Christine. By God, t...

The installation of apostate bishop Robert McElroy as cardinal archbishop of Washington occasions a reflection on the demon's playground that is D.C. In all of that darkness centered there, the good and the righteous--those filled with beatitude--shine all the brighter in Rachel Mastrogiacomo, Archibishop Vigano, and Thomas Massie. True martyrs all who remind us that the dawn from on high shall br...