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2015-02-10T17:32:45-07:00

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

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 5:32 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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The I Aborted My Baby because He was a Boy story is almost too perfect. By “perfect,” I mean that it reads like someone took every crazy accusation anyone ever leveled against man-hating feminists and characterized them in a blog post. Is this story a not-so-funny first-person prank? Did someone make up a tale about how they murdered their baby boy with abortion? The bedeviling thing, to me at least, is that I’ve dealt with people just as crazy... Read more

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2015-02-10T07:30:59-07:00

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Ascension Press: Following Jesus to the Priesthood

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 7:30 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Ascension Press has released the beautiful video below to encourage young men to consider the priesthood. I am drawn to the raw honesty of these young men’s testimony. It also appeals to me that this is a video about vocation to the priesthood that focuses on God, instead of us. Too much of our discussion about vocations focuses on attacks on the liturgy, women in the Church and other things that are supposed to make us more worthy of God. That leads... Read more

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2015-02-09T12:12:23-07:00

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President Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Speech: Offensive, but Not Surprising.

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 12:12 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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President Obama’s tiresome predilection for offending Christians showed itself again at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. It seems that our prez will besmirch Christianity, even if he has to dredge up stuff from a thousand years ago and mis-characterize history to do it. I’m going to put a video of the full text of his speech below. Parts of it are good. But, as usual when President Obama talks about religion, he can’t resist taking a swipe at Christianity. This... Read more

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2015-02-09T12:18:03-07:00

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Pope Francis Calls Human Trafficking a Shameful Wound Unworthy of Human Society.

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 12:18 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

2015-02-10T05:46:04-07:00

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Woman Brags that She Aborted Her Baby Because He was a Boy

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 5:46 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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The woman in question is Lana. Lana wrote a post for a blog called Injustice Stories. I don’t know if Injustice Stories is a series of confabulations or not, but even if it is, it’s still horrifying. In one blog post she related how she murdered her baby boy with abortion just because he was a boy. As chilling as that is, the post is worse. It’s a long explanation about how this woman killed her own child because she saw... Read more

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2015-02-09T12:15:07-07:00

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Jordan Goes to War for Real

Last updated on: February 9, 2015 at 12:15 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Lt Muath al-Kasabeh, the Jordanian pilot ISIS burned alive, did not die in vain. Jordan has responded to this infamy with vows to “wipe out” ISIS and they appear to be willing to put firepower into the endeavor. Here are Jordan’s military objectives against ISIS: 1. Target top leadership, with al-Baghdadi at the helm. 2. Stop illegal revenues which ISIS has been getting from fuel. 3. Weaken and destroy training centers and logistical centers. These are sound military objectives. From... Read more

2015-02-07T10:29:40-07:00

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Book Review: Climbing Piano’s Mount Everest

Last updated on: February 7, 2015 at 10:29 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I love the piano. I mean, I really love the piano. The fact that I’ve taken it up late in life and have no ambitions about it — and I mean absolutely no ambitions about it — is part of the reason why I love it. My elderly mother is constantly telling me how much she regrets that she and my father didn’t give me piano lessons when I was a child. “You could have been someone really great, a concert pianist,”... Read more

2015-02-07T08:42:39-07:00

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Is Brian Williams a Star or a Journalist?

Last updated on: February 7, 2015 at 8:42 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I’ve been looking at videos of Brian Williams. The thing that jumps out at me is that he has been more of a personality than a journalist for quite a while. There’s something vaguely trashy about the anchor of a network news show performing as he does in these videos. However, it goes a long way toward explaining his I Caught a Fish THAT BIG story about coming under fire in Iraq. That story was part of the Brian Williams act,... Read more

2015-02-06T13:25:33-07:00

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Brian Williams and the I Caught a Fish THIS BIG Story

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 1:25 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Deacon Greg and the Anchoress have done a good job of covering the story. It seems that news anchor Brian Williams has, over the years, slowly dressed up a story about what happened when he was covering the Iraq war. A helicopter was shot at and forced down. Brian Williams was in another helicopter that was not shot at and was not forced down. But he was near the helicopter that was shot down. Not very near, but somewhat near.... Read more

2015-02-06T10:16:27-07:00

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10 Ways to be Pro Life This Year

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 10:16 am By Rebecca Hamilton

1. Pray a Rosary on Fridays for the unborn. 2. Make a pet project of one of your state legislators. Track their votes on pro life bills and send them a handwritten letter commenting on how they voted. Better yet, go to the capitol and tell them what you think — kindly — in person. If they vote pro life, send them flowers at the end of session. If they don’t vote pro life, tell them that you are deeply... Read more

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