Congressional Budget Office: 30 Late-Term Abortions Each Day

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:04 am By Rebecca Hamilton

According to the Congressional Budget Office, doctors in the United States perform at least 30 late-term abortions each day. The CBO analysisof HR 1797, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act said in part: “Based on data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CBO estimates that, each year, about 11,000 abortions take place 20 weeks or more after fertilization.” Any honest person who has dealt with this issue can tell you that this number is bound... Read more

Even Water Moccasins are Cute When They’re Babies

Last updated on: July 8, 2013 at 8:11 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Even water moccasins are kind of cute when they’re babies. Kind of. However, it doesn’t take too long before they turn into fat, stinky, ugly poisonous death dealers that will come at you over the water like they were on patrol. If they bite you, I guarantee that it will ruin your day, your week, possibly your life. But they do look harmless when they’re babies. As, I would imagine, do Black Mambas and Gaboon Vipers. Everything has its harmless-appearing... Read more

Samuel Adams: Once Might be a Mistake. Four Times is a Pattern.

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:05 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Kathy Schiffer wrote a post yesterday that moved Samuel Adams beer from a purveyor of too-politically correct advertising to dedicated Christian basher and misogynist. I wrote a couple of days ago about the Samuel Adams beer commercial in which the company aired an ad that conflated their beer with the Declaration of Independence and then paraphrased it to take the words “endowed by their Creator” out of this quote? Once the not-so-surprising backlash began, Samuel Adams issued the meaningless comment... Read more

I Believe

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:05 am By Rebecca Hamilton

I taught my kids the Apostles Creed when they were little. During the homeschooling years, we prayed the Apostles Creed after our daily Bible study every morning. We were Protestants at that time and I wanted to prepare them for the marketplace of ideas and ideologies that make up the wide world of many denominations. I told them that if a church did not believe what the Apostles Creed teaches, then it was not a true church and they should... Read more

Death. And What Comes After.

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:06 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Death. And what comes after. Near death experiences happen to a lot of people. I know people who have been through near death experiences. I know that what these people say is the truth as they understand it. What do these things mean? Well, first of all, the person did not die. They were near death, not dead. So, I think it’s safe to say that what they experienced was not death itself. At the same time, these are not... Read more

Tornado Recovery One Month In

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 10:10 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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I drive by the path of the May 20 tornado almost every day. Recovery is moving along, even though it is painful. In the first days, people went back into the areas to sift the rubble in an attempt to salvage what they could. I went to the 7-11 with one of my sons late in the evening a couple of days after the storm and we spoke to a man who had lost his house. He had somehow managed... Read more

Political Correctness and Editing Historic Documents

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Does the code of your professional organization require you to change the wording on historic documents? How about the foundational document of our country? Does the code of your professional organization supersede that? Samuel Adams Beer manufacturers are claiming that it does. Their 4th of July commercial traded on the fact that their brand of beer carries the name Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The actor in the commercial is shown... Read more

We Always Knew. Now, It’s Official.

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Public Catholic readers are already beginning to comment on this bit of news. The Vatican announced today that Pope Francis will canonize both Blessed John Paul II and Blessed John XXIII. As one reader commented, canonizing these two men together will “confuse the ideologues.” Hopefully, it will point these “ideologues” away from the false idols of their own personal ideologies and back to the person of Jesus Christ, who both Popes served with faithful courage. For the rest of us,... Read more

Lumen Fidei: Pope Francis & Pope Emeritus Benedict Co-Author Encyclical

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:08 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Pope Francis is a pope of firsts. His first encyclical, which was issued today, is no exception. Lumen Fidei, the Light of Faith, is the first encyclical in history authored by two living popes. This is because Pope Benedict XVI began the encyclical before his resignation, and Pope Francis took it up and finished it. A pope’s first encyclical is usually taken as a harbinger of the directions he will take with his papacy, in particular the areas of the... Read more

Freedom Isn’t Just about Fireworks

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 11:09 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Today is the 5th of July and everyone in my family is back at work. I asked my husband and sons why they weren’t taking today off and got explanations that amounted to one thing: Habit. They go to work. Every day. It wasn’t until I got up this morning, and started … um … working … that I realized I’m just like them. However, less habitual people all over this country are enjoying the second day of a... Read more