The Timothy McVeigh trial was difficult for me. I won’t go into all the things I thought and felt. They are too private. But I will say that it engaged me and put me through a considerable emotional torque. Ditto for his execution. One thought allowed me to maintain an even strain through that experience: I didn’t sit on that that jury, could in no way ever be asked to sit on that jury, and that meant I didn’t have to... Read more
This post concerning the egregious violation of the First Amendment rights of Colorado baker Jack Phillips has garnered quite a few comments. A number of those comments have contained partial quotes from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s order requiring Mr Phillips to undergo court-ordered brain-washing, ie, “staff training.” The order also included demands that he re-write his business’ policy and file quarterly reports. Here, for those who are interested, is a photo of the original order in its entirety. ... Read more
Forbes has published an article labeling the babies-in-the-septic-tank story a hoax. The article, written by Eamonn Fingleton, who writes under the claim that he has “a sharp eye on media bias, official propaganda and globaloney,” says that the so-called septic tank is in reality a shaft burial vault. I’m not saying that this article is the final word on the mystery. But it does underscore the points I made earlier today. (1) We can’t trust a media with an agenda,... Read more
Father John Corapi was just a smidgeon (and a very small smidgeon, at that) this side of Jesus to a lot of people. I liked himself myself for quite a while. Then, one day, I was watching him on EWTN. He was talking about his escapades from his past and it occurred to me, “He’s not confessing. He’s bragging.” I noticed the way he almost leered when he talked about himself from what he was pretending he thought were... Read more
Americans have long deplored “thought police” and “re-education camps” in Communist regimes. We have thumped our chests and demanded human rights for those in other climes. We have been appalled by the violations of the basic civil rights of their citizens by totalitarian states; rights that we took for granted. These governments seemed and actually were hell bent on enforcing emotional/moral/social conformity at the price of individual liberty, religious freedom and the rights of free speech and thought.... Read more
New Jersey’s assembly advanced a bill Thursday that would allow doctors to prescribe killer drugs to their patients. Arguments surrounding the bill seem to be focused on the language of the bill and what kind of “safeguards” it has in it. Safeguards? The bill allows doctors to prescribe death-dealing drugs to their patients for the express purpose of killing the patient. I ask again, safeguards? Laws like this remove the “safeguards” on medical killing for all of us. There are... Read more
Now it’s beginning to make sense. Boko Haram, the mass murderers in the name of Allah who have rampaged at will over Northern Nigerian for years never made sense of me. They were heavily armed and appeared to be able to burn down churches and schools, engage in protracted assaults on large institutions, without undue interference from the government of Nigeria. Boko Haram could waltz into any location, kill, raze, burn and kidnap, then waltz back out and nobody stopped... Read more
Why does the Church teach that sex belongs in marriage? This video is a bit long, but well worth watching. Read more
In China, June 4, 1989 is the day that wasn’t. Tiananmen Square is the massacre that didn’t happen. And on this anniversary of the massacre that didn’t happen, nobody inside China had better say anything that intimates that it did. Welcome to the world of our trading partners. You know; the country to which we have exported our industrial base. I’m talking about the last major Communist stronghold, which America has cunningly built into a world economic power by... Read more
Evidently, there was an internet hate-off while I was off unpacking my office and getting acquainted with The Precious. I won’t go into the details because I don’t know the details, and also because I can see from a distance that the details are rife with petty malice, self-righteous viciousness and lies. It seems that Pope Francis kissed somebody’s hand and one of my colleagues said something about heresy and, of course, the money changer christians are all in a... Read more
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