Here’s SERE trainer and former US Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance on Cheney suck-up Marc Thiessen, who has become the Designated Court Prophet for Raymond Arroyo and the go to guy for distorting the obvious teaching of the Church in order to make it compatible with the needs of the Rubber Hose Right. No word yet on whether Thiessen will take up Nance’s waterboarding offer, but I’m betting not. Like his boss, he has “other priorities”. Read more

Faisal Shahzad buys a car on Craiglist under a false name, uses a disposable cell phone to do it (which the cops traced back to him), and immediately tries to skip the country back to the bosom of the Umma after the bomb he placed in the car failed to detonate in Times Square. What can we learn from this? If you said, it was probably “somebody with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something”... Read more

I wonder what St. Thomas would make of this. Read more

All the Pope’s Men, in which Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman battle papal assassins and home in on the Evil Nazi Pope and his cadre genetically engineered pedophiles. Soon to filmed in 3-D Self-Congratulation-a-Rama! I wonder if Roman Polanski is directing. Read more

what I think about French Catholic schools welcoming Muslims. I think it’s great. For the first time in history, we are seeing large number of Muslims being exposed to a Catholic education in an environment where Catholics are perceived as friends and even protectors and not enemies. Muslims, being remarkably like human beings, respond to things like love, truth, goodness and beauty much as other human beings do. I reckon there are probably Fortress Catholics upset by this. But I... Read more

Granny bravely defies a “taboo”. Tragically, society does not understand. It will take several more news articles and puff pieces to move the public from “ewww” to “heh, heh! That’s kinky and risque!” to “Who’s to say what’s right and wrong?” to “God bless their courageous defiance of stifling convention” to “Equal rights for Intra-Familial Lovers!” I hate being right all the time. Read more

on the monstrous evil of creating human beings from three genetic donors. The longer I watch the “progress” of the West, the less I believe that Islam is going to carry the day. My reasons are both practical and biblical. Islam is technologically backward. They have to steal our stuff in order to even launch attacks on the West. That doesn’t mean they can’t inflict real damage. I won’t be surprised if some Islamic nut manaqes to nuke a city... Read more

Here is a clip from the greatest production of The Taming of the Shrew ever staged. It was done in 1976 by the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco under the direction of William Ball. It’s done in the crazy slapstick style of commedia dell’arte and is absolutely hilarious from start to finish. I saw it on PBS 30 years ago and have been trying to find it ever since. Happily, you can now get it from Amazon (and I... Read more

A reader writes: Dear Mr. Shea, I am a student at Texas Wesleyan University, which is located in Fort Worth, Texas. Wesleyan has a student-run (but school-sponsored) weekly newspaper called The Rambler. This week’s edition of The Rambler featured a column (linked here) by Chuck Fain, the opinion editor of this paper. In this column, Mr. Fain opines (among many other offensive remarks) that the Catholic Church is a “multinational terrorist organization”. Mr. Fain is certainly entitled to his (peculiar)... Read more

Thank you so much for your prayers for my son last week. The problem is mostly resolved, and it happened more quickly and smoothly than I could have predicted. I know that must be because of everyone’s prayers, so I’m very grateful. I would just like to ask you to pray a bit more about the medication the neurologist put him on. Pray that it goes well, that he doesn’t experience side effects and that, if this is not the... Read more