It indicates that all of you hard-line conservatives who write me, scolding that I am “not a true conservative” are quite right! How did you score? Via the folks at Inside Catholic Blog who score mostly centrist/libertarian, which might surprise those who think serious Catholics are all a bunch of restrictionists. It didn’t surprise me at all. Part of Catholicism is about striving for balance. Fausta has another fun test over at her place. UPDATE: Perhaps the fact that so... Read more
Don Surber writes that Voter ID makes sense and I agree. There is no “hardship” in requiring ID from people – we require it to buy a sixpack, tobacco or to take out a library book, and honestly, if people want to vote, and they’re too poor to have appropriate ID, they should be able to bring their birth certificate to their local town hall, or whatever, and be supplied with an appropriate ID. I mean…this is the 21st century,... Read more
Wrote about Jonah’s book earlier this week. Apparently, as Glenn Reynolds points out, some chuckleheads are making Goldberg’s case for him: JONAH GOLBERG’S LIBERAL FASCISM is now up to #20 on Amazon despite the best efforts of the anti-Jonah lefty blogosphere. Somebody even hacked the page — an Amazon first, I think — and replaced the cover photo with one of Jonah with a Hitler mustache It makes me wonder if some folks are not quite sure what fascism is.... Read more
Via by St. Thomas Aquinas Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, Quæ sub his figuris vere latitas; Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit, Quia te contemplans totum deficit. Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur, Sed auditu solo tuto creditur. Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius; Nil hoc verbo veritátis verius. O memoriale mortis Domini! Panis vivus, vitam præstans homini! Præsta meæ menti de te vívere, Et te illi semper dulce sapere. Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio, Oro, fiat illud quod tam sitio:... Read more
Godtube has erected a prayer wall, where you can post your prayers, express your concerns or your thanks. We none of us say “thank you” enough. And when you’re done you can read the prayers of others, maybe whisper up a prayer for someone you don’t even know. I have found that sometimes the best way to deal with something in your own life – illness, worry, stress, grief – is to pray for someone else…maybe even to offer your... Read more
My Li’l Bro Thom sent this Maureen Dowd piece my way with the observation: She does her best writing when it’s about the Clintons. I’ll say! Today’s column is a stunningly good. At the Portsmouth cafe on Monday, talking to a group of mostly women, she blinked back her misty dread of where Obama’s “false hopes” will lead us — “I just don’t want to see us fall backwards,” she said tremulously — in time to smack her rival: “But... Read more
Sung by nuns from St. Elizabetha Monastery, Belorussia “Lord,Jesus Christ, Son of God, have Mercy On Us, Sinners!”- Иисycoва молитва-Поют сёстры монастыря Св. Елизаветы. Белорусия Gorgeous, from Love to be Catholic Related: A Light Shines in the Darkness A Gift of Morning Prayer Read more
As Ed Morrissey says here: No one can pretend that this wasn’t a huge victory for Hillary Clinton. All of the pollsters had her tanking in the days between Iowa and tonight, and I mean all of them. She not only got to be an underdog, she got to write a comeback script for a media that loves them. CNN’s pundits scratched their heads all night long, expecting that narrow gap to disappear, and it never happened. My only concern... Read more
As Ed Morrissey says here: No one can pretend that this wasn’t a huge victory for Hillary Clinton. All of the pollsters had her tanking in the days between Iowa and tonight, and I mean all of them. She not only got to be an underdog, she got to write a comeback script for a media that loves them. CNN’s pundits scratched their heads all night long, expecting that narrow gap to disappear, and it never happened. My only concern... Read more
Don Surber semi-fisks a NYTimes op-ed piece by a pissed-off-sounding Gloria Steinem (she’s in italics): Steinem tells Obama to give up his seat to Miss Hillary. In analyzing Iowa’s caucuses, I said the winners were Huckabee, followed by Obama. Hold on there, came a reader comment. You overlooked the historic significance of the first black man to carry a white state in presidential politics. Good point. It just never occurred to me that his skin color is all that important.... Read more
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