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"Shut up and Clap!"
Mark Shea finds a jewel of a piece in the WaPo: It is 110 yards from the "E" ring to the "A" ring of the Pentagon. This section of the Pentagon is newly... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"Transporting the Sperm out of the Country Without Consent is Also Illegal."
If that title isn't strange enough, read the rest of the story: Earlier this month a widow in her early 40s, referred to as Ms H, obtained a court order in the... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2013 SOCIETY -
“So Who Will President Obama Identify with in This Case?”
The case being the murder of a promising Australian baseball player by supposedly 'bored' teenage thugs. The problem is that Alan West is the one asking the... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"The Stupidity and WTF-ness of Your Remarks Boggle My Mind."
I touched on this subject this morning but moments ago I found something related that makes the point so much more eloquently and effectively: Here are some... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"The Common Misconception is That to Be Devoted to Mary is to Worship Her."
An interesting, even fascinating, interview with Chicago White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers: His wife, Nancy, has been a tremendous influence on renewing the... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 SOCIETY -
Pope Chris Christie, the Bishop of the Office of the Governor of New Jersey,...
Hear ye, hear ye... Pope Christie has decreed that homosexuality is not a sin and is governing New Jersey with that decree as a basis for signing a bill... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"Do the Right Thing and Move Or Euthanize Him!!!"
How cruel, sick and twisted can one become? This cruel, sick and twisted: Ontario police are aware of a disgusting letter sent to a woman caring for an autisti... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"Where is President Obama?"
Where indeed: As church after church is put to the torch in Egypt by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, one of the things that is going up in... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2013 SOCIETY -
Obama Should Back Egypt's Provisional Government
Frank Weathers is making the case, comprehensively: The Coptic Christian Church in Egypt has put out the following statement, “The Egyptian Coptic Church is... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2013 SOCIETY -
“Listen, I Want You to Do One Thing for Me When You Get up There… Then I’ll...
Father Lawrence Hummer ministers to a death row inmate up to his execution, then something remarkable takes place: Hummer, a priest for 40 years, has a... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"The Truth of Where We Are Heading"
Rebecca Hamilton draws conclusions after reading the words of one of her commenters: The Christian Bashers Defense team has pretty much taken over the comboxes... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"Shockingly Arrogant and Anti-scientific"
Charles Krauthammer takes it to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell for saying ""I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior." H/T... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 SOCIETY -
“Are We Going to Have a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy for Christians So We Don’...
The inevitable result of forced tolerance is intolerance: A 19-year veteran of the Air Force said he was relieved of his duties after he disagreed with his... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 SOCIETY -
The Church is Under Siege in Egypt
The untold story of the chaos in Egypt: Fr. Rafiq Greiche, spokesman for Egypt's Catholic bishops, told Vatican Radio today that "40 churches - 10 Catholic and... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"Today in America, SWAT Teams Are Deployed About 100 to 150 Times Per Day..."
We are paying the price in many ways for society's movement away from the boundaries provided by religion. What follows, via the Huffington Post, arguably... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 SOCIETY -
How Long Before Drive-in "sex Boxes" Are Promoted in America?
I suspect some will figure out how to tie them to women's health issues and blame the Republican War on Women for blocking their implementation: They look like... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 SOCIETY -
So You're Still Someone Who Thinks the Abortion Rights Movement is About...
Then don't be offended if I think you're a complete idiot: In the wake of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s homicide convictions this past May, several... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 SOCIETY -
Obama Really Does Think He's King
The words in the title of this post are my own, words I came to after reading the latest George Will column at the Washington Post: President Obama’s... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"I Believe in the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary..."
The Anchoress is tossing scripture and science together in a bowl and serving up a great mix: While the dogma was only made definitive in by Pope Pius XII in... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 SOCIETY -
"... the Absence of Any Policy and a Lot of Empty Words"
Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post is sticking it to this administration, and righteously: Put it this way: President Obama’s Egypt policy is about as... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 SOCIETY
