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• "A Typical Specimen of Homo Academicus"

  

  Yesterday, I was turned on to a Business Insider piece identifying the 20 public colleges with the smartest students.  A number of University of California... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "There is Still Time Not to End up in Hell"

  

  Pope Francis courageously warns the Mafia... and the rest of us: Surrounded by survivors of innocent people killed by the Mafia, Pope Francis made an emotional... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "What is Considered Important Can Be Preserved"

  

  Not too long ago, I had a conversation, albeit brief, with my youngest son. I can't remember all the specifics but what I do remember is his stating that had... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 SOCIETY

• The Logical Conclusion to a Pro-choice (pro-abortion) Mindset

  

  A bifecta of leftist ideology, aborted babies used as fuel for green energy: The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Are All, in a Sense, the Woman at the Well."

  

  Deacon Greg's homily for this year's 3rd Sunday in Lent, is simply beautiful: In late February, I received an email from a woman in the Michigan. She had... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Don't Just Pass This Piece By... Read and Contemplate What is Happening

  

  Muslims in Syria are ritually sacrificing Christians as an act of worship to their God.   If this isn't the purest of evil, I'm not sure what is: A new angle... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "But None of Us Knows What Transpires in the Heart’s Final Beating"

  

  Tony Woodlief was moved to find meaning in the death of one man: Hatred is madness, and it is sickness, and it spreads with contact. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "One Doesn’t Simply Break Bad in an Instant; It’s a Long Process of Moral...

  

  I'm likely in the extreme minority of people in the western world who've yet to see a single episode of the acclaimed AMC television series Breaking Bad. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Is Estonia Next for Putin?

  

  You can't help but ask when reading what follows: Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Ever Heard of "triggering"?

  

  It's the new trending rage amongst leftists, particularly of the feminist persuasion: Twenty years ago, critics such as Christina Hoff Sommers, Daphne Patai... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "Special Consideration Shall Be Given To... Those of the non-Christian Faith"

  

  A Michigan teacher's union goes to great lengths to insure their hiring practices are... tolerantly diverse... though... not really: Apparently, no one at the... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 SOCIETY

• Flight 370 Debris Found off Australian Coast?

  

  The Australian Prime Minister is thinking so: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament that searchers may have spotted, via satellite, two... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 SOCIETY

• I Welcome the Pendant, It's an Easy Way to ID the Wackos out There

  

  Talk about your fashion accessories... do you think you'd like one of these? I attended a DC Abortion Fund holiday event last night in Dupont Circle. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "Dangerous Silliness"

  

  Fr. Robert Barron's take on Cosmos is a worthy read: Seth MacFarlane, well known atheist and cartoonist, is the executive producer of the remake of “Cosmos,”... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 SOCIETY

• “Lord, Your Church Says This is Okay And, If I’m Offending Your Glory in Any...

  

  Mark Shea writes of a personal encounter with the power of prayer.  It's powerful, inspiring and beautiful. Go read it. Just do it. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "A Simpler Explanation"

  

  There are many theories and speculative explanations for what took place with Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 but what follows, from a pilot with 20 years of... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 SOCIETY

• The Iron Man... He's Actually Pretty Soft

  

  This is a very neat story about Robert Downey Jr.: I was escorting my grandmother. There isn’t enough room in this essay to explain to you everything she was,... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 SOCIETY

• An Action Long Overdue

  

  Coming our way via Eye of the Tiber: Catholic Democrats voted to secede from the Catholic Church in a referendum yesterday, with final results showing that 95.5... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 SOCIETY

• "Atheism Has Become a Dogmatic Religion"

  

  David Lawrence is smacking around some of his fellow atheists: Hey, why am I reading in the New York Post about a group called American Atheists? I mean, I was... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 SOCIETY

• A Version of Dancing in the Dark That's Much Better Than Springsteen's

  

  I know, to some, that will be blasphemous, but hey, it's where I'm at and... let's face it... Ruth Moody is much more pleasing to the eyes.   That should end th... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 SOCIETY