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• We Should Be Alarmed, Particularly Given Who It is That Leads Us.

  

  This was apparently enacted two years ago but it's the first I've heard of it: The government's Insider Threat Program, a comprehensive initiative that stretche... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Vince Flynn Has Died

  

  Almost a month ago and I had no clue: Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 SOCIETY

• A Word of Caution to Backyard Pool Owners...

  

  ... that has nothing to do with drowning: While a nude female swimmer in his Camelot subidivision home's backyard pool had him distracted, the woman's accomplic... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 SOCIETY

• According to the CDC, 30 Children Are Killed by Gunfire Every Day? Did You Know?

  

  That's more children being killed every day than was killed at Sandy Hook.  I'm sure you're aware.  Right? Oh wait, wait... I'm sorry... I made a mistake...... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Silencing Those Who Give Voice to the Voiceless

  

  This should outrage anyone who cares about decency and truth: A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 SOCIETY

• “It is Like Setting off at the Traffic Lights in Your Car in Fourth Gear...

  

  It's looking more and more like pilot error was the cause of the air crash at San Francisco International Airport, particularly low air speed on approach by a... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "... a Moment of Selfless, Courageous Action..."

  

  The extended Fourth of July weekend is drawing to a close but it's not yet too late to draw our attention to stories of heroic and sacrificial acts that have... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 SOCIETY

• ‘I’m an Eligible Donor and I’d Like to See If I Can Give a Kidney to You.’

  

  There are two things that make the story I'm about to excerpt particularly noteworthy for me.   One, I happen to know this priest personally, in fact he's... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "... the Removal of the Definition of Marriage Between a Man and a Woman Means...

  

  The logic here is unassailable and the graphic even more so: Last week many in the country and around the world celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision regardin... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 SOCIETY

• The Face of Today's Tolerance Smirks

  

  Can you hear the smugness of the editor and the publisher as they each defend besmirching and mocking Catholics? A skimpy two-piece bathing suit, an... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 SOCIETY

• What Would You Like to Know About the New Papal Encyclical?

  

  What I know is that Jimmy Akin knows much more than I do: Pope Francis has just released his first encyclical, Lumen Fidei, or “the light of faith. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "Your Faith is a Remedy for What Ails Our Society"

  Are you one who looks around and wonders what is going on?  Are you one yearning to see things change? Cardinal Wuerl of Washington, via a homily... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "... the University’s Mission Statement — Which Includes Tolerance and...

  

  That an understatement from Audrey Jarvis, a 19 year old student working freshman orientation at California's Sonoma State University, after being ordered by... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "We Are in for a Very Long, Increasingly Harsh Battle"

  

  The Anchoress is reacting to the Hail Satan story and the title quote stood out for me: When the Christians began to sing “Amazing Grace” they had to know it... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Hail Satan... Really...

  

  That was the chant by pro-aborts in response to pro-lifers singing Amazing Grace at the Texas State Capitol: Cahnman's Musings hasn't been following the... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Why All This Fuss About Marriage and Its Definition?

  

  Among the many things that work against those of us opposed to the redefinition of marriage are two in particular that are troubling, apathy and ignorance.... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "... the Days of Defending the Freedom of Others to Think and Speak Outside of...

  

  There's much being written on the gay marriage debate that's really not about gay marriage.  Two pieces that caught my eye last night late and then this... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "... It Really is All About Us and Our Genitals."

  

  Tiberjudy believes today's marriage debate isn't new: The real truth is that people have been trying to mess with marriage since at least 1530. What do you thin... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 SOCIETY

• No, Hell No!

  

  Rick -- I just got a list of everyone who's pitching in to build Organizing for Action -- and it looks like you're not part of it. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 SOCIETY

• “If the Church Teaches It, Then I Believe It.”

  

  I can imagine how that comment grates on some of you.  A mere 5 years ago, it would've set me off.  But that's when I swam with the tide.  Today I swim against... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 SOCIETY