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February 2012

February 11, 2012

Molecular Biologist Gets Upset About the HHS Mandate, Writes the President

True story. The Catholic Science Geek responds to the Administration's "Accommodation" *cough* statement with "My...

February 11, 2012

Why the Constitution Means A Lot To Me

Dr. Beckwith allows that this quote contained therein, choked him up, "Our parents and grandparents...

February 11, 2012

As the Bishops Fight On, A Reader Writes Another HHS Mandate Petition

And kindly asks for your support. Hi Frank, I largely borrowed your wording from your...

February 11, 2012

FYI, The HHS Mandate Petition Skunked the Competition UPDATED

And here's why: meet the real Freedom of Conscience petition, y'all. Because although the NARAL petition...

February 10, 2012

Dear President Obama, Go.Pound.Sand.

Deacon Greg Kandra shares the New York Times story where someone in the Administration admitted,...

February 10, 2012

Seeings How Jail Time May Be in Our Future…

Call me Mr. Practical, but do you have a free hour and forty-five minutes? If...

February 10, 2012

The Official White House Response to the HHS Mandate Petition-UPDATED

I reckon this can be considered "breaking news," because the following note just landed in...

February 10, 2012

Marcel LeJeune of “Aggie Catholics” Teaches a Civics Lesson and Links a Plenty

for the tyrannically challenged. Why the HHS Mandate Is The Biggest Issue Since Roe V...

February 10, 2012

Fr. Robert Barron Makes it Clear…

This is a power grab and a push to secularize our nation and ghettoize Catholics....

February 10, 2012

Meanwhile, In Mr. Obama’s Old Stomping Grounds, John Kass writes…

in the Op-Ed pages of the Chicago Tribune, The way President Barack Obama has started...

February 10, 2012

The White House is Under Pressure, May Make A Statement Today UPDATED

That is the latest scoop, from ABC News this morning. Feb 10, 2012 7:04am White...

February 09, 2012

Our Evangelical Brethren Sound the Call to Meet Us At Helm’s Deep! UPDATED

Over on Christianity Today, that is the message that Timothy George and Chuck Colson...

February 09, 2012

Sen. Harry Reid Runs Headlong Into the Constitution, Comes Away Shaken

It seems there was some talk of amendments to a Transportation Bill, that got side-swiped...

February 09, 2012

The Nuns From Nashville are Awesome!

We should all go and hug them, immediately, if not sooner. Have you seen their...

February 09, 2012

Remember Yesterday’s Post by Steven Greydanus?

It's been updated. Go read it at once. Also, it turns out my Managing Editor...

February 09, 2012

The Latest Lawsuit Against HHS is Filed by EWTN

Details are at the National Catholic Register, which is owned by EWTN. Boogity. Send a message...

February 09, 2012

Mr. Obama? The Church Will Bury You

So says a couple of secular journalists in the Business Insider article with the greatest...

February 08, 2012

Senator Rand Paul Quotes a Papal Encylical?!

Yes.He.Does. Right here in his article in today's National Review Online. That is the third...

February 08, 2012

Steven Greydanus reminds us to never…

trust Lucy with the football. No, Obama is NOT looking to compromise or backdown.

February 08, 2012

NARAL’s Petition is still chasing us…UPDATED

It's kind of like this, folks. "Never tell me the odds!" Sign and share the...

February 08, 2012

The Blog “Whosoever Desires” asks the Question, “Why War?”

The answer is quite simple, really. Wars happen because the ones who start them think...

February 07, 2012

The President Remarks About Our Petition…Bravo Zulu

"I can't believe Frank Weathers brought that petition into my den, and then shot it...

February 06, 2012

NARAL Wants to Make this A Petition Race? UPDATED

Evidently. You see, not content with convincing the Administration into drafting a program that will...

February 05, 2012

The Neat Thing That Happens When Folks Get Excited…

about something that is larger than themselves is, they get really, selflessly, creative. For example,...

February 05, 2012

Here Come the Orthodox Christians! (Rescind the HHS Mandate)

Remember what the Anchoress said about thanking the Obama Administration for clarity its actions have...

February 03, 2012

If You Sign the Petition on the HHS Mandate…

You'll be joining a long line of patriots who have not knuckled under to bullies...

February 03, 2012

Eyewitness Account: Planned Parenthood Never Had Mammography Machines UPDATED!

Sure, by now everyone has heard the news that the Susan G. Komen Foundation has...

February 02, 2012

Do What Father Zuhlsdorf Commands…

Like a good Jedi. The Empire has conspired to turn the moon into a Deathstar,...

February 01, 2012

A Word From Your Captain: The USCCB Has Noticed The Petition

Via radio transmission from the U.S.S. Freedom of Conscience, Joe Six-Pack, USMC, Commanding Howdy folks....

February 01, 2012

Why God Created the Shotgun

So cool and geeky nano-bot engineers can watch ignorant Marines with high school degrees (and...