Honestly, I don’t know if this is farce or tragedy or a little bit of both, but this Super Bowl Ad featuring Tim Tebow is certainly making a mark, even before it airs. Bookworm, a classical liberal still living and working (under some cover) in a “progressive” enclave has declared that Tebow is the sort of man she’d like her daughter to date: I can’t think of a better lesson for young people. And that’s why I want my daughter... Read more
Like Instapundit, I have no problem with inaccurate news stories being corrected (although pulling them altogether is a bit dramatic), and so I am happy to read the correct information, which the press has quickly presented to us. The official said when the administration saw the story, published yesterday afternoon, they contacted one of the Reuters White House correspondents. The White House pushed these points: – Our budget explicitly calls for permanently extending the Bush tax cuts for households making... Read more
Coming our way from Julie at Happy Catholic: For a young girl who is making a decision about an unplanned pregnancy. She wants to give the baby up for adoption but is being pressured to have an abortion. Lord, move her to stand up against pressure, to make the decision to love the little life inside her, and send her the support she needs to have her baby and to thrive. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to be... Read more
Abbey of St. Walburga Over at St. Walburga’s Abbey, in Virginia Dale, Colorado, they are celebrating the entrance of another young woman into their novitiate, where she was clothed in the Benedictine Habit. They have some great pictures of their joyful new novice, Sr. Kathryn. Nuns in this community take their new names-in-religion upon first vows. I am struck, though, by the wonderful talk given pre-clothing by the Abbess, Mother Maria-Michael, who said: A vocation isn’t something we decide we... Read more
It’s one thing for a nobody-former-Dem-former-feminist-blogger like me to say this sort of stuff; for a mainstream journalist writing in the Washington Post, a defense of Tim Tebow and a pro-life ad during Super Bowl time is truly noteworthy. This is dynamic truth-speaking to a stagnant and hypocritical establishment. This is someone who claims to be liberal actually writing like a liberal –as liberalism used to be defined; it is someone secure enough in her own abilities to reason that... Read more
It’s not a broadcast piece, but after reader Dick T sent me this video of Lady Gaga at last night’s Grammy Awards, NPR invited me to submit my thoughts on it, which they have published here. Check it out. Leave a comment, over there, if you like! Hit “recommend!” I feel like spreading myself around, today, like candy! Here is the video in question, btw: Read more
Brian J. Stevens, a former reporter with the Haitian Times newspaper writes at America: . . . As non-governmental organizations and foreign governments flood the country with desperately needed food, water and medical supplies, Haitian voices once again do not appear to be playing a role in helping to direct the aid where it needs to go. Residents of the southern Haitian city of Grand Goave told the Inter Press Service News Agency that there is “a network of seven... Read more
Tied up with a project today but wanted to pass along this piece by Richard Fernandez, wherein he takes a wee look at worries over in Davos about “American instability” and those usual suspects who blame the stability on America people who won’t just sit down, shut up and let their betters tell ’em what’s what. The source of this worry appears to be the reluctance of the American voter to follow the leader. Friedman writes “You can understand why... Read more
Over in Haiti, in Petit Goave, Missionary Ed says there were some new faces at church today. Hello, my entire world has crumbled around me, but I still managed to put on my best clothes for worship. Beautiful child…humbling picture. Meanwhile, the UN is just doing a bang-up job with their relief efforts. Or not Writes John Bolton: Many people ask why, instead of the United States invariably taking on the burden of “first responder” to humanitarian disaster, the United... Read more
Our friend Fr. James Martin has been recently imprisoned in a stuffy, soundproof booth, recording his modern classic My Life With the Saints. Over at America, he has a delightful post up about his adventures in enunciation and I am so happy to know that I am not the only person who really has no idea how to pronounce Mother Teresa’s birth name: I didn’t know how to pronounce everything. The team had to clue me in on the most... Read more
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