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July 2014

July 02, 2014

Rush Limbaugh Continues Standard Conservative Francis-Hating Tactics

It's pretty simple. Take some MSM misreading of something Francis says--usually something a 10 year...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Just to be Clear

#MeriamIbrahim = Courageous use of social media to protest an obvious evil and advocate an...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

An Analogy

If Catholics for a Free Choice put out a T-Shirt with the Last Supper on...

April 28, 2014

Romans 2:24

Will somebody bury the Thing that Used to be Conservatism? It's really starting to stink....

April 25, 2014

Hard to Add to Perfection

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive

March 2014

March 10, 2014

Leah Libresco reports from CPAC

I can imagine few more concentrated forms of Lenten penance than being sentenced by The...

March 04, 2014

Hear, Hear!

My friend Dave Curp, a historian of Eastern Europe and a sane conservative writes: I...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

For the GOP, “prolife” means…

"anti-abortion except for humans who threaten GOP access to power. Then you can kill 'em...

February 26, 2014

One of the Many Reasons I Like the American Conservative…

...is that they have the guts to run absolutely brilliant and perceptive pieces like this...

February 04, 2014

Fresh on the Heels of our Recent Discussion of the Racialism of the Dark Enlightenment Crowd

...that is currently making inroads in some of the de-Christianizing younger generation of the Thing...

February 04, 2014

Memo to Glenn Beck: Oh, just. shut. up. Will ya?

Few things are more manifestly damning of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism than...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Who Even Knows *What* the Pope is Talking About?

Pope Francis writes these mysterious and inexplicable words: 53. Just as the commandment “Thou shalt...

January 24, 2014

404 Error

Dinesh D'Souza is not the Martyr you were looking for.

January 09, 2014

Conservapedia’s Conservative Bible Project

...is a particularly piquant and hilarious demonstration of the sheer hubris and insanity of the...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Fascinating Clash of Ideology and Reality

The old joke used to be about the Marxist who, presented with some plan for...

December 13, 2013

Rush Just Keeps Getting Better

Did El Rushbo Make Il Papa TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? "Now, I'm not...

December 13, 2013

Rush Limbaugh Explains it All For You

“My point is I've got no bias against it*, quite the contrary, and I was...

December 11, 2013

The Odious Stuart Varney…

...assists Adam Shaw's assault on pope Francis by carrying forward the video portion of the...

December 05, 2013

The Thing that Used to Be Conservatism Puts out a Hit on Francis

...in which we look at some of the emerging strategies that are being deployed as...

December 04, 2013

FOX: Our First Line of Defense Against Pope Francis

Well, apparently the ipsi dixit of Rush Limbaugh is percolating through the Rightwingosphere. FOX News...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

Lunatics Taking Over the GOP Asylum

Rod Dreher looks at how the battle lines are shaping up. Basically, in one corner...

October 15, 2013

One of the places a post-Christian conservatism can go

...is into the weirdest recesses of pagan race worship. A reader writes: Well, my college...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

Strangely, Pewsitter never linked this

The Most Popular Moral Heresy in the World Consequentialism is only a sin when the...

August 09, 2013

Another Place I Trust Christ’s Promise to Guide the Church

...is when the Holy Father speaks to the incredibly sensitive and sacred issue of that...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

Why the GOP Continues Begging to Lose

...and will lose. What sticks out is the sheer gratuitous stupidity of the thing, as...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Hear! Hear! Dr. Mirus!

Talking sense from the Tradition instead of nonsense from the dogmas and shibboleths of the...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Cheap Grace

Discernment-free conservatism rejoices at the spectacle of Mark Sanford, who ditched his wife for a...

May 02, 2013

Yeah. Pretty Much.

One of the major legacies of the Bush/Cheney Administration to American Culture. That, and massive...

April 2013

April 27, 2013

As I said before, nothing brings out the Right Wing Police State Neo-Fascist Sycophant

...faster than a little fear: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full...

April 16, 2013

John Medaille on the Spiritual Rot…

...at the heart of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism in his fine review...

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