Christmas Climate: Lie down and die

December 11, 2009 By

Source The Christmas season is domestic; and for that reason most people now prepare for it by struggling in tramcars, standing in queues, rushing away in trains, crowding despairingly into teashops, and wondering when or whether they will ever get home. I do not know whether some of them disappear forever in the toy department [...]

Filed Under: Advent 2009, Bloodless Coup, Chesterton, Christians in Exile, Crisis & Opportunity, Crooks and Liars, Culture of Life/Death, Domestic Terrorism, Erosion of Rights, Faith, Freedom of Worship, Hoo-Hah & BS, Nanny Statism, Secularism, Socialism doesn't work, The Perpetual Adolescents

2012 Review With Spoilers

November 19, 2009 By

Very entertaining talk on why the new film 2012 is not worth spending a dime on, at least from my perspective. Fr. Robert Barron calls it “anti-religious” and “anti-Catholic,” although among people of faith Buddhists are allowed to be good people who live (there you go, Joseph, you’ll outlive me!). He has a good time [...]

Filed Under: Christians in Exile, Faith, Prayer, Secularism, TV/Pop Culture/Music

Prayer is ruining me for blogging…

November 12, 2009 By

Sourcebook I love my oratory. It’s so nice, so restful, so mine. Going there to pray every day (“going there;” it’s on the other side of my desk) just…shapes the whole day. But it’s really playing hell with my blogging and the direction of the blog. I mean, here’s my morning: I shower, get dressed, [...]

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Penn Jillette & Tommy Smothers

October 22, 2009 By

I watched this video just before turning in last night, and awoke with it still in my head: For those who are unfamiliar with the story of Jillette and Bible, you can come up to speed here; Jillette movingly describing his encounter with an Evangelical Christian fan who loved him enough to give him a [...]

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School Choice in DC; a no-brainer!

October 12, 2009 By

Take a few minutes to watch this excellent video from PJTV, focusing on the Obama administration’s ending a successful scholarship program that has allowed students to get out of the failing, miserable public schools in the District of Columbia (where more than $15,000 a year is spent, per student, with dismal results). The September 30 [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, Alternative Media, Bush Good, Education, Free Speech?, Obama Bad?, Parenting, PJTV, Secularism, The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents

Pushing Suicide when Love will do…

September 4, 2009 By

I don’t know how I missed this piece, a guestpost at Jim Blazsik, by someone I think I may have heard of before, a woman who calls herself Sr. Kerry of the Immaculate Heart. who gives a brief bio here and also describes the organization she is apparently in the process of forming, the Institute [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, Communion of Saints, Culture of Life/Death, Faith, Health Care, Medical, Secularism, Socialism doesn't work, Touch of evil

Equality of Opportunity or of Outcome?

August 19, 2009 By

Let’s look some more at this piece by Jillian Bandes, on Obama’s new “Chief Diversity Officer,” Mark Lloyd. I was a bit snarky yesterday when I wrote of this newly-created office: Does it seem to you that the Obama administration makes up titles and offices the way Bluto made up new names for Animal House [...]

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