I just gave a quick perusal of today’s blog and saw your post on Palin: *********************On the other hand…. I gotta give Palin full props for this. My sole caveat is “This makes her a great role model for the culture of life. It does not automatically anoint her as having what it takes to be Prez.” ******************* What struck me about this post was the contrast with your words last week: *************************. . . Palin’s hastily-ghostwritten bit of self-promotion... Read more

Guys who fudged lots of science in the service of the Favoritre Panic Generation Machine of the Left are fumbling around complaining that you can’t look at their lies since they are stolen lies. Didn’t hear that stuff about the Pentagon Papers. Oh, and can we *please* stop sticking “gate” on to every scandal? Read more

Somebody, after enduring that Gap Ad down below, writes: “Solstice: does anyone really celebrate this? Is neo-pagan claptrap really being put on equal footing with Christmas?” To which the invaluable John C. Wright replies: No, not at all. You see, ‘neopaganism’ has nothing to do with real paganism and everything to do with antichristianism. Real pagans celebrated Saturnalia — if they were Romans or Quviasukvik — if they are Eskimos. The Germanic tribes had a winter feast day no doubt... Read more

This is way funny! Read more

My wife and I are looking for a specific Padre Pio movie – we saw it on EWTN and now we cannot find it again. We have the two movies “Padre Pio– Between Heaven and Earth” starring Michele Placido and as well “Padre Pio – Miracle Man” starring Sergio Castellitto, but neither shows the scene we think we saw (full disclosure, my memory is really bad on this one). We don’t want to buy another until we are sure (our... Read more

There is no god but Moloch and Kennedy is his prophet! Meanwhile, a reader writes: I thought you’d find the following interesting. As you may know, there is a primary on Dec. 9th for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. Boston being what it is, 3 out of 4 candidates are self identified Catholics. And Providence being less than 2 hours away, +Tobin’s response to Rep. Kennedy is of great interest on the local news channels. So naturally... Read more

In which we shout into the winds of brain-dead pro-torture rhetoric from the Thing that Used to be Conservative and am met with gale force denial, excuse-making, euphemism and consequentialism in the comboxes over at Inside Catholic. Torture: The American Way for the Thing that Used to be Conservatism. How depressing. Read more

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7576633&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo. H/T: Mike Flynn Read more

In which we continue looking at the Sanctifying Gifts of Confirmation. Read more

has some thoughts about Advent. Read more