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November 2015

November 16, 2015

It’s Time to Discuss America’s Immigration Policy.

Not all Muslims are terrorists. In fact, very few Muslims are terrorists. ISIS, despite its...

November 06, 2015

Faithful Catholic Politicians Need Our Prayers and Support

Kimberly Hahn, wife of prolific Catholic apologist Scott Hahn, got herself elected to an at...

November 04, 2015

Misogyny 1, Girl Athletes 0. Where are the Feminists?

Where have all the feminists gone? It appears they've gone to political correctness, save for...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

So, What Do These Polls of Presidential Candidates Mean in Real Life?

I haven't written about the obsessive early polling of presidential candidates for one simple reason:...

October 15, 2015

Studies Show Porn and Abortion are Allies

I was there when most of the tracks that led us to where we are...

October 14, 2015

PP Says They Will Stop Taking Money for Aborted Baby Body Parts. Do You Believe Them?

Planned Parenthood president, Cecile Richards, published a letter yesterday stating that Big Pink won't take...

October 12, 2015

Synod Leaders are “Log Rolling” Say Cardinals

A group of Synod Fathers, including Cardinal Dolan, have written a letter to Pope Francis...

October 10, 2015

History Repeats in USA, But Evil Will Never Triumph

What happens when evil appears to triumph? I wrote about that for CatholicVote. Here's part...

October 09, 2015

Here’s Why Euthanasia is Wrong: You Do Not Kill Innocent People.

The post I wrote for the National Catholic Register about California's new euthanasia law attracted...

October 08, 2015

Deep-Sixing the Ten Commandments. The Oklahoma Story.

I know more about the Oklahoma Ten Commandments Monument story than my sense of responsibility...

October 05, 2015

Gov Jerry Brown Forgot the First Rule: Don’t Kill Innocent People!

Governor Jerry Brown jumped off the cliff and into the volcano of mass murder today....

October 02, 2015

the Pope

If that’s true, then, my

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Is Speaker Boehner Going Home, or Is He Going to be a Millionaire?

Is John Boehner going home, or is he going to be a millionaire? Speaker Boehner...

September 29, 2015

PP Videos: Another Excuse Bites the Dust

Planned Parenthood has wiggled and wormed its way around the hideous truth revealed by the...

September 24, 2015

Address to Joint Session: Our Pope Channeled Jesus in a Present-Day Sermon on the Mount

This is my reaction to Pope Francis' address to the joint session of Congress today....

September 24, 2015

Pope Francis is at Our Capitol

Pope Francis is now in the holding room with the Speaker of the House, waiting...

September 23, 2015

How Did Your Senator Vote on the 20-Week Abortion Ban?

The United States Senate voted yesterday on the whether or not to limit debate on...

September 22, 2015

If We Don’t Fight for Life, This Hunger for Annihilation Will Devour Us All

My near death experience with Mama pushed me to considering a nursing home. I wrote...

September 21, 2015

Left Wing Media Tries to Hijack Pope Francis for Its Secular Agenda

Redefining Francis to fit their political agenda is the new game of the left. It...

September 18, 2015

House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood. What Happens Next?

The United States House of Representatives voted this afternoon to defund Planned Parenthood. Commenters are saying...

September 18, 2015

How Did Those People Get Invited to the WH Reception for Pope Francis?

The story is out there, circling the internet. It goes something like this: President Obama...

September 17, 2015

What Do You Put on the Altar of Your Heart?

Pro life people must not confine their pro life thinking to the tiny intellectual boxes...

September 15, 2015

It was a Mama Kind of Weekend.

My family and I had a rough weekend with Mama. Here's a summary of part...

September 14, 2015

Lone Vet Returns to Iraq to Fight ISIS

60 Minutes covered the plight of Iraqi Christians Among other stories, they found an American...

September 11, 2015

Office Depot’s Refusal to Print Pro-Life Flyer is Bad Business, But They Can Do It

Things are hopping in the culture wars. It seems that a clerk at a Chicago...

September 10, 2015

Kim Davis: Is This the Beginning of a Judicial Dictatorship?

This is another take on the question of judicial overstep by the judge who imprisoned...

September 08, 2015

Kim Davis is Out of Jail

There really ARE two kinds of people in the world: those who will go to...

September 05, 2015

Dying to Keep a Job … Freedom of Conscience and Abortion, Euthanasia

Do you support forcing doctors and nurses to violate their consciences by killing their patients...

September 04, 2015

When Chickens Trump Babies … Time to Re-Prioritize?

I think this is something that only a Harry Truman Democrat could write. I take...

September 04, 2015

Guess Who Didn’t Go to Jail?

How about when the shoe is on the other foot? From Daily Mail: An openly-gay...