Elizabeth Scalia
that is the moment when everyone should begin to fly their flags. It’s that simple. You either roll over and lose your country and your culture, or you fight. That doesn’t mean you destroy the others. You simply make them understand that you’re not changing who you are to please them. Cals College in IJsselstein [...]
Adorable and smart Jimmie at Sundries Shack has this week’s Watchers of Weasels Winners, and they’re really worth checking out. Full disclosure: I was once lucky enough to get an honorary mention by this gang and they’re pretty discriminating. Council Member winner: Dr. Sanity’s piece on the explosion of the Challenger. Awfully good and moving. [...]
Our guys are training them. And they seem to be working very hard. Running quietly down a pitch-dark dirt road outside Baghdad, Iraqi and U.S. commandos flowed from one house to the next, the red laser aiming devices of their rifles skittering over bushes, walls, and doorways. At each junction, they softly called out a [...]
Roger L. Simon provides us with this moving, apparently open, letter to President Bush that has been making the rounds. Dear Mr President;I heard your wonderful world loving speech ; it brought tears to my eyes ; you couldn’t imagine how you made me feel!!!Your policy is right about Iran ; please don’t let anyone [...]
This story is nothing short of miraculous. ISHON LEZION, Israel, Feb. 4 – Klara Bleier and Hana Katz thought each other dead, swallowed 61 years ago, like the rest of their family, in the maw of Auschwitz.The sisters were separated in October 1944 in the Budapest ghetto when Hana left one day to find work [...]
It always struck me as strange that in the early days of the Iraq war, when the embeds were filing remarkable stories, we lost the two (to my way of thinking) best journalists covering the war, the great Michael Kelly and the would-have-been-great David Bloom. And they both happened to be practicing Catholics. That struck [...]
Two of my friends got pregnant while on the pill. This lady in the UK did, too, and now she is pregnant with quadruplets and she seems sensible of the blessing. If God wants to bless you with children, He’s gonna bless you with children, no matter what birth control you’re using. You can accept [...]
Below, I linked to Dirty Harry and his tracking down of the presses 1998 reaction to Clinton’s words re Social Security (all positive) and their reaction to Bush’s words (all negative). Harry is on the job watching a live broadcast of President Bush talking up the plan in Nebraska and says only CNN is covering [...]
In the post below, I wrote a little about my 15 year old son, Buster, and his response to the Reid/Pelosi response to the SOTU, but I thought I’d relate a few more thoughts and observations this playful, but also very thoughtful, kid made during the speech itself. Buster’s response to Bush’s opening line re [...]
Well, that’s good news, I guess. I mean, heaven knows, you’re nobody if Chirac and Schroeder don’t like you. Or, maybe success has a thousand fathers, and Europe has suddenly figured out that supporting democracy is better than NOT supporting democracy, especially when in not supporting democracy you seem to be tacitly supporting tyranny. In [...]
Got a letter passed to me from a friend of a friend of a friend whose son is an Army doctor in Iraq:Dear Dad,The best laid plans of mice and men…General Order 1A states that there will be no fraternization between the sexes while stationed in Iraq- therefore, there will be no pregnant service members [...]
When you are Dirty Harry, all the best people give you the quotes: UPDATE: Barbara Boxer, “Obviously we have no assurance this doll will be treated fairly due to the Bush administrations refusal to accord small plastic fake people protection under The Geneva Accords.” UPDATE: John Kerry, “Hey! That’s him. The guy I was in [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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