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June 2013

June 10, 2013

Remaking America: Who was Prescient and What Will Come? – UPDATED

"Very soon you'll be able to boil your mother in oil on the Pont Royal--and...

June 10, 2013

PRISM: Political Theater, fast change, Snowden idolatry – UPDATES

Part of my morning ritual involves logging into Twitter to see what people are talking...

June 09, 2013

Smart Move: PRISM Whistleblower Outs Himself – UPDATED

A few days ago, Glenn Greenwald tweeted to this link. Go, read. Perhaps it was...

June 07, 2013

NSA Inevitability and what Ted Kennedy Knew! – UPDATE

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the...

June 06, 2013

Remembering Bobby Kennedy and Missing Great Oratory

Today is the anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy. On Facebook, Bishop Christopher...

June 04, 2013

Men on Strike: Fathers, Family, Frank Talk and First Things

Two weeks ago at First Things, I wondered what it would be like if Rep...

June 01, 2013

If Atheists want a creed, they ought to have one

In Florida, some atheists, peeved that a monument to the Ten Commandments could not be...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

When Workplaces are Wussified

:::WARNING: The very funny and insightful essay and link I am about to present to...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

The prescient genius of Paddy Chayefsky’s “Network”

Recovered from the Wayback Machine, April 28, 2006 The prescient genius of Paddy Chayefsky's "Network"...

April 15, 2013

Using Gosnell to Snip at Obama, or the Press? – UPDATED

"If these children are being born alive, I have confidence that a doctor..." That is...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Our Future Will be Hunger Games USA

The nation is already accustomed to watching "reality shows" where ordinary folk -- their foibles...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Sanger’s Racist Genocidal Plans and The Masque of the Red Death

I haven't commented about the creepy "Happy Anniversary Video" celebrating 40 years since Roe v....

January 23, 2013

“Abortion Ends Life? So What?” Here be Monsters. – UPDATED

So, here is a title, over at Salon: "So what if abortion ends life?": Writes...

January 22, 2013

Think you’ve heard it all about abortion? Then think again!

(image courtesy of shutterstock.com) Someone asked me, recently, what I thought the status is of...

January 15, 2013

Pastor Louie Giglio and the Chill Wind of Correctness

(image courtesy of Shutterstock.com) Considering the wide media attention accompanying the announcement that laywoman Myrlie...

January 10, 2013

The Paradoxical Meanness of the Minimum Wage

Over at dotcommonweal, Paul Moses links to this Bloomberg piece on the pay gap between...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

What the hell is WRONG with these people? – UPDATE

If you ever doubted that there is a battle going on all around us --...

December 14, 2012

Newtown and the God who Knows

"In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of...

December 06, 2012

“Monstrous Evil” Indeed

If I were not already feeling sick this story found by Mark Shea would get...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

Like I said…UPDATED

About three years ago, a Democrat congressman -- I think it was Stark but I'm...

November 16, 2012

Susan Rice is a Diversion from Obama’s own Words to UN – UPDATES

The mainstream media keeps wondering about UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and the fact that post-Benghazi...

November 06, 2012

Come, Pray the Luminous Mysteries with Me!

Aside from being aggravated by some minor, but continual, issues with my computer today, I'm...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Benghazi Emails: Media Silence and “Theology is Stupid”

A few days ago I wrote of Benghazi story: Please tell me that when our...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Is it too late? Are we “past” civility? – UPDATED

I meant to link to this piece by Lisa Hendey yesterday, but the day got...

September 25, 2012

MSM Holds Its Freedom Cheap; Ours, Too

(Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com) My column at First Things this week chronicles the almost surreal...

September 20, 2012

No Snark: Someone needs to remind Obama

A completely snark-free post, because the issue is serious: With the news (and the admission)...

September 11, 2012

9/11: A Bag of Tomatoes and an Empty Sky

Today is as it was. The day is so perfectly vivid in my mind, that...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

The Cross always threatens Communists – UPDATED

Found Via Deacon Greg: Government authorities from a district in the Central Highlands last week...

August 16, 2012

Obama meets with Biden, Clinton _ UPDATED

Apparently today President Obama met with his gaffe-stricken veep and his Secretary of State. A...

August 15, 2012

Man Walks in with Chick-fil-A Swag and a Gun…UPDATE

It almost sounds like a joke, right? "Stop me if you've heard this one, before:...