Your Vote = Their Power Politics is about power. The two political parties are not political parties as we once knew them. They are consortiums of special interests. They operate on behalf of these interests for one purpose: to get and keep power. Everything else they say is a lie. The next time you feel like bowing down to your political party, remember this, and stand upright. Don’t bend your knee to the R and the D. Register for whichever... Read more
Sabine Moreau, a 67-year-old women from Belgium, wanted to go about 90 miles to pick up a friend at a train station. But instead she followed the directions from her GPS all the way to Croatia, 900 miles away. She told the press that she wasn’t paying attention. Here’s the story: Put too much faith in technology and you may wind up in Croatia. A 67-year-old woman from Belgium learned that the hard way after she followed (faulty) directions from... Read more
Public stardom is difficult for anyone to handle. Based on the outcomes we’ve had with several “star” priests, I would say that clergy don’t handle it any better than anyone else. That said, I have to admit that I’ve noticed the nice-looking man standing in the background in several photos of Pope Benedict XVI. I wasn’t aware until today that the Italian press had dubbed the good father “Gorgeous George.” I tend to associate the moniker “gorgeous george” with a... Read more
President Obama has indicated that he will use executive orders to side-step Congress in his push for gun control. The use of executive orders has grown over the decades. In my opinion, it has reached the point that it verges on making Congress obsolete. Aside from whatever issue is in question at the time executive orders are used, there is another, underlying issue. Is Congress going to be reduced to a bombastic cypher? Are we in effect electing a dictator... Read more
Big names sell magazines. Eye-catching covers sell magazines. Eye-catching covers with big names sell lots of magazines. Who’s got the biggest name of all? Let’s look Read more
Stop slogan-voting. Stop hate-voting. Stop being manipulated. We are in a fight for religious freedom in America. Religious freedom is sometimes called the “first freedom.” It is, after all, enshrined in the First Amendment. But there is another reason to call it the “first freedom.” Religious freedom is the basic human freedom on which other freedoms are built. It strikes to the core of our souls, of who we are as individuals and how we view ourselves and other people.... Read more
Nine Days Of Prayer, Penance And Pilgrimage On January 22nd and January 25th our nation will remember the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since that tragic decision, more than 55 million children’s lives have been lost to abortion, and the lives of millions of their parents have been shattered. As part of the bishops’ recent call to prayer, “Nine Days of Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage” will take place January 19-27, 2013. This time period, focusing on the theme of... Read more
It is not, ever, about us. It is not, ever, about this country. Congress is once again heading for another titanic fight over a deadline. This time it’s the debt limit. Now, I ask you, what would you consider important enough to shut down the government, damage America’s credit rating (all you credit card holders out there, think what happens to your payments when your interest rate goes up) and further traumatize an already traumatized citizenry? The HHS Mandate? Would saving... Read more
If your computer goes wacko, don’t blame Obama. NASA scientists say the sun itself is getting testy these days, and the way things are turning (literally) we might be in line to get a blast of that testiness here on planet Earth. Solar flares, which have been relatively quiescent in recent history, are revving up. Not only that, but the sun is rotating and the planets are aligning in such a way that one of these blasts might be on... Read more
It isn’t civil disobedience. It’s disobedience of bullies with a word processor. Refuse to let them tell you what to do. That’s all it takes to stand up to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the self-appointed United States Supreme Court in absentia who rains down threatening letters on unsuspecting government officials at laser printer speed. Just don’t do what they tell you to do. A case in point is the Jackson Country School District in Ohio. They’ve decided to keep... Read more
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