What an absurd joke this field of candidates is. Today’s focus: The Android. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook That the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism cannot mount a credible campaign against an opponent as weak as Obama is all you need to know about the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism. Read more

A reader writes: I am too weak to continue fighting. I’ve reached the end. I need help from others to continue. My fatigue is so great that I want to die. I come to you to pray for us. Father, hear our prayer that your servant would receive the grace of faith, hope, and love and be delivered from despair through Christ our Lord. Guardian angel, defend him in battle and protect him from the snares of the evil one.... Read more

This killed me: I think our political discourse could be immeasurably helped if we could turn the sound down on the debates and just have this guy interpret for us. Read more

So Stephen Greenblatt has a mother tormented by fear of death as he grew up in a northeast corridor atheist household. He goes to college, reads the atheistic poetry of Lucretius and finds some measure of consolation there. Now here he is years later, an evangelical atheist out stumping for Lucretius and trying to attribute world-changing power to poetry which, while it may mean a lot to him personally, is not exactly well known to, like, 99.9% of the human... Read more

Join rebellious Magisterium and call for abolition of death penalty. It’s a sad day when Catholic theologians join their voices to the teaching of two Popes, the bishops of the world and the Catechism in calling for the end of the death penalty instead of listening to the voice of authentic magisterial teaching which can only be found in the comboxes of the Catholic blogosphere. Catholic moral teaching *only* counts when it is about abortion, as *serious* Catholics know. ““It... Read more

HT: Kathy Shaidle The other day, somebody was denouncing The Anchoress as one of them damn libruls. I have to wonder what bubble one has to live in to imagine that the Anchoress is a liberal. Leftism seems to have devolved into a remarkably tepid affair, nothing like the fire-breathing Maoists or butchers like Che Guevara. The ice cold machine-like men of slaughter like Stalin are gone (except for our dear, dear most favored nation friends in China).  Here in... Read more

A reader writes: Please ask your readers to pray today for a boy born 26 weeks premature in April. His name is Wyatt, and has been struggling with his lung development. He has had infections of his internal organs, and has needed extra oxygen, which unfortunately has damaged more lung tissue and impeded his breathing. I’ve been praying a novena for the intercession of Blessed Karl of Austria on Wyatt’s behalf, but the little guy needs a miracle. His mother,... Read more

I’m swamped with work when I’m not loading stuff on the blog, so I’ve been slow on the uptake about who else has taken up residence here at Patheos. So I wanted to take a minute and say “Welcome!” to the Crescat. Booyah! I haven’t had time to observe my surroundings better than that. But I plan on becoming a fully cognizant and functional human being soon, once the other gigantic work projects are pushed off my plate. Excelsior! Read more

A reader writes: So great to see you over at Patheos. Kudos for all you do! And that incredible post about the healing of the young child with e coli… just amazing and so inspiring. That post made me ask myself why I’ve never asked your readers for prayers for our daughter who’s been plagued for fifteen years with a severe eating disorder addiction. She has had many close calls the past several years but has always bounced back to... Read more

Contraceptive being pushed in Africa by the “Just of Enough of Me, Way Too Much of You” crowd of first world imperialists has the added “benefit” of doubling the chance of users contracting HIV. One does get the impression sometimes that our Population Planners aren’t *too* choosy about how to keep the numbers of brown-skinned and almond-eyed folk down. “Swarming and spawning” was, if I recall, the word Margaret “To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds!” Sanger used to describe the... Read more