A commenter in The Debate: When Does Military Spending ENDANGER America? referred to President Dwight Eisenhower’s military industrial complex speech. Here is the full text of the speech. I had never read it completely through before tonight. I think it was prescient. We owe this old warrior a great deal, not the least of which is what we owe him for the honesty and love of his country exhibited by this speech. Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961... Read more
Is President Obama going to unilaterally take this country to war in Syria against the wishes of the American people and without the support of our greatest ally, Great Britain? Before I write about the situation today, I’m going to do a little re-wind and take us back to late October, 2012, and the presidential campaign debates. If you will remember, Governor Romney (the Republican nominee) was all agog about going to war with Iran. It didn’t take much of... Read more
Another young woman allows herself to be reduced to meat on stage. And the blogosphere lights up with kudos, indignation and whatzits all over the place. But … what does it mean????? Here is my bullet-pointed reaction to the latest pornifying of a young woman in the name of entertainment. Miss Cyrus has been heading in this direction for quite some time, so I wasn’t exactly surprised to hear she’d moved to soft porn on MTV. In my opinion, Miss... Read more
I wrote this post in response to the sexist coverage of the summer Olympics in 2012. I’m re-posting it now as a run-up to my next post, which will be on Miley Cyrus. Prominent news organizations blazed past their critics to take home medals from the 2012 Olympics despite complaints of unsportsmanlike conduct. Opponents claim that the publications emphasized women athletes’ weight, appearance and body parts rather than their athletic performance. According to the editor in chief of a... Read more
Every Christian has a vocation. In a real sense, we are our vocations. I’m thinking of the mentally-challenged teen who attends my parish. She’s almost puppyish in her expressions of affection with the other teens. In my public school, I saw teens like her get roughed up pretty routinely. In fact, one of the cruelest things I ever saw in a school involved the football team boys and a mentally challenged young man. This young man styled his hair in... Read more
Eggsploitation, or, as I call it, egg harvesting, is a deadly new form of prostitution, made possible by a combination of modern science, doctors who are willing to exploit, sell and endanger healthy patients in order to make money for themselves and a culture that regards women as a commodity to be bought and sold. A recent death in India highlights the dangers: SAN RAMON, Calif., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — News is just breaking in India aboutSushma Pandey, a 17-year-old... Read more
We have been faced lately with the defection of a number of highly-placed American Christians on serious matters of faith. In particular, there has been a large retreat among political and intellectual Christian leadership on the question of the sacrament of Holy Matrimony. They are either tossing marriage out the door altogether, or they are, as I was once counseled concerning abortion, urging the rest of us to leave our beliefs at home or inside our houses of worship.... Read more
I published this post last spring. I’m posting it again in response to a reader’s question. Allowing non-physicians to perform abortion is all the rage among the “reproductive health” folks. They’re introducing bills to allow this in states all around the country. I wrote a post earlier today, Woman Sues Planned Parenthood for Forced Abortion and Medical Malpractice in which I made the following statement: “Based on my experience with this issue, any attempts to impose regulations on abortion... Read more
I published this post about 10 months ago. I’m re-running it today because of the combox discussions on birth control. I am, as I’ve said many times on this blog, a feminist. I’m also no spring chicken. I remember back when feminists actually agitated for safer forms of contraception for women and criticized the marketing of dangerous chemical birth control to women without regard for their health and safety. No more. The “feminism” of today equates any form of... Read more
Will Smith has given my family hours of wonderful entertainment. He’s one of those actors who takes over the screen when he’s up there. Even though I know it’s extraordinary talent, I call it screen presence, because from where I sit in the audience side of things, that’s what it seems to be. What I didn’t know about Will Smith is that he’s a person with a lot of thinking going on in that handsome head of his. And they... Read more
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