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February 2015

February 14, 2015

The ‘Fifty Shades’ Controversy: Sicko Sex and Failed Feminism

What is it with women who read Fifty Shades of Gay and who will go...

February 13, 2015

Are the Murders at Chapel Hill a Hate Crime?

Is the murder of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill a hate crime? In some...

February 10, 2015

Is the I Aborted My Baby Because He was a Boy Story a Confabulation?

The I Aborted My Baby because He was a Boy story is almost too...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

January 22 and Bunnygate

I've ignored the flap over Pope Francis' latest airplane interview, mainly because it has no...

January 13, 2015

Every Person has a Right to Life; Even If They Say Offensive Things.

Photo Source: Flickr Commons, Francois Lacroix I wrote a post a few weeks ago...

January 13, 2015

Walking Mama Home

My mother is slipping away. Last week, she asked me, “Are we sisters, or cousins,...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Victim Blaming and Catholic Hating: What is Our Response?

It starts as soon as we can toddle out of our cribs. It rears its...

December 18, 2014

The Only Thing Sensitive About Late-Term Abortion is Justifying It

She killed her baby in the 28th week of his or her life because the...

December 04, 2014

The Murder of Innocents is Wrong and Every Human Being Knows It.

Human rights. Does that phrase refer to unalienable human rights that are ours by...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

The Hard Teachings: Are You Going to Leave Me Too?

If you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you will...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Book Review: Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore

To join the discussion about Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore, or to...

October 24, 2014

New York Police Officers Wounded in Hatchet Attack. Possible Terrorist Connections.

Photo Source: Zale Thompson’s web site. The New York Police Department is investigating a possible...

October 22, 2014

Canada: Hit and Run that Killed Soldier is Called Terrorist Attack

Canadian authorities are doing something that American authorities appear to be incapable of doing: They...

October 21, 2014

Haters Gonna Hate: Christian Ministers Forced to Perform Gay Marriage or Face Jail Time

Photo Source: Catholic News Agency Remember the lies? Gay marriage would not lead to...

October 14, 2014

Freedom from Religion Foundation Hits Oklahoma City School

Kathy Schiffer brought this to my attention. Then I discovered that the Blaze...

October 08, 2014

President Obama Sends Message to Killer’s Mosque. Did He Ignore Victim’s Family?

My mother was an amazing woman, loving wife to my father and adoring grandmother....

September 2014

September 25, 2014

German Committee Says ‘Incest a Fundamental Right.’

The German Ethics Committee, which is described as “a government committee” and which appears to have...

September 17, 2014

7 Reasons Why Doomsayers About the Catholic Church are Wrong.

Brian Cahill, a former director of the San Francisco Catholic Charities, recently wrote an...

September 13, 2014

Send it Back: Surrogates and Killing Their Manufactured Babies

It’s the new hot trend. Go online and pick an egg donor from photos and...

September 06, 2014

Britain, You’ve Got a Problem.

At the expense of being called a few names, I'm going to post these videos....

September 03, 2014

Rotherham and the Cowardly Act of Offering Up Young Girls to the Dragon of Misogyny

It’s an old myth, the story of villagers who sacrifice a virgin to the...

September 02, 2014

Christianity: The Religion of Life

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

If You Don’t Like Black People, You’d Better not Plan on Going to Heaven, Because There’s Going to be a Lot of Them There

Opio Toure Opio Toure was my friend. We knew one another before either...

August 27, 2014

Home and Family are Not Outmoded. They are Eternal Truths on Which People are Built.

A long time ago in a land not so far away, married couples often...

August 25, 2014

Black Mass News: Satanist Offers Twisted Tales About How He Got the Consecrated Host, and Catholic Bashers Bash On

Kate O’Hare did an interesting interview with the attorney who handled the consecrated Host...

August 21, 2014

Richard Dawkins on Down’s Syndrome Babies: “It Would be Immoral not to Kill Such a Baby in an Abortion”

I’m not going to say too much about this. It speaks for itself. Dr...

August 16, 2014

From Xyklon B to Machetes: Our Lady in the Age of Genocide

I wrote this a couple of years ago. Since I was too busy to write...

August 11, 2014

Governor Mary Fallin Condemns Black Mass

Oklahoma’s Governor Mary Fallin condemned black mass that is scheduled for Oklahoma City next month....

August 11, 2014

Be Our Defense Against the Devil

I first posted this in July, 2013. St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.Be...

August 06, 2014

Ebola. The Family Disease.

It’s been cooking for months. The question now is whether it will get out...