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• “I Think Our Friends No Longer Count on Us, No Longer Trust Us and Our...

  Brief but pointed comments coming from former Vice President Dick Cheney in this AP report: On foreign policy matters, Cheney declined to weigh in on... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 SOCIETY

• It's Not Just Because the Church Sez So...

  

  ... but because Social Science does: There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• CBS News:"There's Concern There Won't Be Enough Healthy People Buying Health...

  

  More bad news on the ObamaCare front: The disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov may have another serious problem: A CBS News analysis shows that in many of the 1... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done

  

  So let what Peggy Noonan is writing be done: We should not lose The Headline in the day-to-day headlines. This is big history, not small. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• “It is Chaos, It is Violence, It is Blood, It is Death. Life Has Been...

  

  The Washington Post's On Faith column takes note of the pending 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht and how for Christians from Syria to Egypt, from Iraq to... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "If Being a Sinner is a Word, a Way of Speaking, a Manner of Speaking, We Have N...

  

  Pope Francis touches on confession and why as Catholics we need not just to confess but to do so rightly: For many believing adults, confessing to a priest is a... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Obamacare Will Hurt the Rural Poor

  

  That from none other than The New York Times: As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama’s health care law, evidence is emerging that one of... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 SOCIETY

• A Privileged Place

  

  A privilege is defined as a special right or benefit not particularly granted to all.  It might also be defined as that same special right or benefit not... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 SOCIETY

• The Mercurial Presidency

  

  I see hope. I do. I see hope because finally the world is coming to the conclusion many of us have held for a very long time. This President cannot be trusted:... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "I Cling to My Catholic Faith with a Dogged Perseverance"

  

  The wife and I went to an ordination Mass on Saturday in Richmond. 19 new deacons were ordained, including two men from my parish.  It was a beautiful, moving,... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Let Me Guess... You're One Who's Looking to Be 'successful'?

  

  I might as well be guessing that you're one who's looking for air to breathe.  Seemingly, we're all looking to be successful in one way or another and it can... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Is the Press Beginning to Get a Little Fed up with the Obama Administration?

  I think those in the media who have integrity are... but... let's face it... that is likely a minority. Watch the following video of White House spokesman Jay... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 SOCIETY

• How Do You Spell Stupid?

  

  I think Rewoldt works. And maybe Kiolbasa. What follows will leave you shaking your head. A city in Colorado has agreed to allow the name of Jesus to be engrave... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Sir Nicholas Winston, Someone You Should Know

  Matthew Archbold over at CMR has found a jewel of a video that's well worth checking out.  Mr. Archbold writes: More than 50 years after saving over 600 childre... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Consumer Reports: "Stay Away from Healthcare.gov for at Least Another Month"

  

  How about staying away for... oh... a damned lifetime? Frustrated by trying to register on HealthCare.gov? You're hardly alone. Of the 9. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 SOCIETY

• The Healthcare.gov Debacle Deepens

  

  I can only shake my head at the ineptness: Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent company of CGI Federal, the prime contractor for the... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "... Confession is Primarily a Sacrament of Healing"

  

  Patrick Novecovsky reviews Vince Flynn's 7 Secrets of Confession: As a lifelong practicing Catholic, I know a thing or two about the seven sacraments. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 SOCIETY

• But What About All the Violence and Mayhem in the Old Testament?

  Atheists (and others) opposed to Christianity frequently substantiate their opposition on the basis of God's cruelty, using the violence found throughout the Ol... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Evil - Bombs in Confessionals

  

  No words: Bombs have been planted in the confessional box of one of the world's oldest churches in a Syrian town hailed as the country's last remaining centre o... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "Such a People is Ripe for Tyranny. And for Another Auschwitz."

  

  Yesterday I embedded a video posted at YouTube by a group called 94 Maidens and hoped it would go viral.  I hat tipped The Anchoress for the find and today I se... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 SOCIETY