Your Civics and Your Spirit

July 9, 2010 By

As we head into the weekend, let me give you three pieces to read, all on rather different subjects, but all important to us, as Christians and as civic-minded folk. First up, read J. Peter Nixon, who recounts last night, in Oakland: . . . there I was, making a last minute decision to remain [...]

Filed Under: America, Misc.

Happy 4th, or, umm…UPDATES

July 3, 2010 By

When I was in elementary school, the typical class had 52 students, with one nun in charge of getting information into our heads. The public schools had a better student-to-teacher ratio, but outside of religion the courses were the same, and they included a quaint little class called “civics.” Civics class taught you things like: [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, America, Education, Leadership, Nanny Statism, Parenting, Pop Culture

Buyer's Remorse Among the Seniors

June 23, 2010 By

Bookworm has a very good piece up, wherein she wonders at how our president can run the gamut of emotional and intellecutal circuits, from A, as is Apathy, to umm…A, as in Anger. Health care bill: Apathetic. (Yeah, it passed and, yeah, he made the talk show circuits, but he was a follower, not a [...]

Filed Under: America, Barack Obama, Crooks and Liars

One man, six votes – UPDATED

June 17, 2010 By

I don’t even know what to say, except I’m thinking it is setting a dicey precedent. Is this part of the “remaking America” thing? Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, America, Voter Fraud

Has Social-Justice been Co-opted?

June 17, 2010 By

Over at Patheos, Timothy Dalrymple offers Part I of what he is referring to as a “Three Part ‘Tea Party Suite’”. Here he asks the thoughtful question, Is the Tea Party a Social Justice Movement? Since it is intent on the formation of a more accountable and more restrained government that will better serve the [...]

Filed Under: America, Culture of Life/Death, Faith, Faith Perspective, Tea Parties, The Perpetual Adolescents

Speaking of Nino & Other Things

May 19, 2010 By

Playing with the ongoing non-story of SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation, Michael Kinsley has written a rather amusing satire about the sex lives of Supreme Court Justices: Why does Justice Antonin Scalia, by common consent the leading intellectual force on the Court, have nine children? Is this normal? Or should I say “normal,” as [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, America, Barack Obama, Bloodless Coup, Bush Good, Catholicism, Obama Bad?, Oil Spill, Scandal, SCOTUS, Socialism doesn't work, The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents, Touch of evil

The Wussification of the Workplace- UPDATES

May 18, 2010 By

:::WARNING: The very funny and insightful essay and link I am about to present to you contains a variation of the “S” word and several renderings of the “F” word. If you cannot handle the “F” word in any context, please do not follow this link. Go write me a letter about how scandalized you [...]

Filed Under: America, American Genius, Celibacy, Critical Thinking, Culture of Life/Death, Economic woe