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• “It Again Shows the Great Values and Traditions of the Game and the Honesty and...

  

  We need more people exhibiting this kind of moral rectitude: He plays a sport dominated by exactness and a long tradition of honor and truth and rule adherence ... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Focus Mr. President... Focus... for Once

  

  I just came across this Obama quote, made in front of donors no less at a fundraiser last Monday night: “As someone from Hawaii, that water [at Martha's... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “It’s Just Not True That All of Them Are Safe — They Are Not”

  

  Yesterday, the President of the United States, speaking about the situation at Mount Sinjar, said: "We broke the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “The Biggest Challenge of All That We Face Right Now”

  

  If you heard someone utter that phrase today, what would you think that person might be talking about? The ISIS threat?  The humanitarian crisis at our borders? Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Hiroshima’s Lesson For The War On Terror

  Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen From Sultan Knish comes a lesson in history on how to deal with a fanatical enemy, how fighting “smart” wars actually... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Pinprick Strikes Weren’t Enough to Stop a Much Weaker Osama Bin Laden"

  

  This past Saurday, I wrote: I don't think pinprick bombing campaigns are going to stop ISIS.  I don't think blustering words from Western leaders who've... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 SOCIETY

• What You Likely Didn't Know About Robin Williams That Speaks Volumes About the...

  

  Coming our way via Brian Lord: For those outside of the entertainment industry, a rider lists out an artist’s specific personal and technical needs for hosting... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "There Was Not a Dry Eye on the Aircraft."

  

  CNN, covering the ISIS crisis in Northern Iraq, has dramatic video footage of helicoper rescue attempts of trapped Yazidis: The face of 15-year-old Aziza says i... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “... Something That Had to Be Done, Otherwise [the Islamic State Forces] Could...

  

  John Allen at the Boston Globe is chronicling the Vatican's apparent about-face as to use of force: For anyone familiar with the Vatican’s recent history of... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Think What You Will About Newt Gingrich...

  

  ... but it's hard for me to find anything here I disagree with: Radical Islam is going to have be dealt with and Mr. Gingrich is ringing the alarm bell here.... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Church Has Been a Rock for Me and My Family in Some of Our Darkest and...

  

  Gary Sinise is a man to be emulated, all the more so now that I've learned he and his wife are converts to the faith: His knowing smile and everyman... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Now It's the Yazidis Who Are Told to Convert Or Die

  

  Via The Telegraph: Hundreds of terrified families belonging to the besieged Yazidi sect have reportedly been threatened with execution if they refuse to... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Family, Honestly, is the Least Important Thing. There is a Higher Purpose....

  

  What follows is nearly 11 minutes long.  This means most of you will immediately move on to other things.  11 minutes of time today is about 9 minutes too long... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Only the Tools and Language of Faith Can Comprehend the Supernatural Origins an...

  

  Elizabeth Scalia explains why the ISIS threat won't be defeated easily: Western culture has become staunchly secular humanist, and believes itself to have... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "...wouldn’t It Be Terrible..."

  

  Tod Worner is drawing parallels the whole world needs to be drawing: The Nazi war apparatus and its machinery of genocide began as a small, fledgling movement... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "It is the Pivot Point on Which the World Turns"

  

  Tom McDonald has written a beautifully thoughtful piece explaining, within the context of world events, the crux of our Christian faith: Christians have one... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "But She Had No Head. She Was Dead. Beheaded."

  

  Sam Rocha has published a post every parent, every grandparent, every Western leader ought to read: I hold my daughter firmly, hands hooked under arms, fingers... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Where is the Western World?

  

  This is horrific, made all the more so by Western silence: A prominent Christian leader of the Chaldean community unveiled the "systematic beheading of children... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Why Ms. Coulter? Why?

  

  There are many things Ann Coulter could be writing about... many things that she could use her pugilisitc style to attack, to criticize, to impugn ideas and eve... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Something is Right When Nobody Disagrees, So We Will Make Our Beliefs Right by...

  

  Tony Woodlief is writing about the newest way to discern truth: It’s comforting, in these confusing times, to know at least some truths are beyond dispute. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 SOCIETY