2017-03-17T04:27:23+00:00

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

2017-03-17T04:27:24+00:00

We’re making a strike today, with the help of Iraqi forces, against Al Qaeda: U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation to strike against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists, the U.S. military said Tuesday, in an effort to build on a recent overall reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds. The division and brigade-level operation, dubbed Phantom Phoenix, will cover the entire country, the military said. “Phantom Phoenix will synchronize lethal and non-lethal effects to exploit... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:26+00:00

We’re making a strike today, with the help of Iraqi forces, against Al Qaeda: U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation to strike against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists, the U.S. military said Tuesday, in an effort to build on a recent overall reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds. The division and brigade-level operation, dubbed Phantom Phoenix, will cover the entire country, the military said. “Phantom Phoenix will synchronize lethal and non-lethal effects to exploit... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:30+00:00

Drudge has the siren up and is shouting that the Democrat turnout is so huge that they haven’t enough ballots. Iowa also had a huge turnout. We should remember, though, that in New Hampshire pretty much anyone, from anywhere, can show up and vote simply by declaring they mean to move there, so who knows just who is voting up there? Still, this is very interesting. It is wonderful to see big turnouts – great to see folks engaged in... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:32+00:00

C’mon, now…that’s a provocative cover. The title, daring to use the deplorable label that has been flung about rather-too-freely in the past few years; the cover, the classic “happy-face” – ubiquitous in the early 1970’s and plastered everywhere as societal conventions came tumbling down. Just past Haight-Ashbury and the Generation Gap, in the middle of the “unisex everything” years of protest and upheaval, everywhere you looked that simple yellow face floated before you and said “be happy!” The cover is... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:33+00:00

Since yesterday’s morning prayer video seems to have been a big hit – here you go. Visually stunning, aurally and spiritually delightful, the monks at Solesmes chant you through the scripture, and the video moves you through the big bang into the work day. No, really, it does! There are some very talented people out there creating videos like this. Enjoy! I’m looking for a good video of Compline to end the day. Related: Your Morning Dose of Beauty A... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:33+00:00

The new year is barely a week old and already it is fraught with drama – and tears. (Hello – I predicted the tears): What I dread most in this political season is the “genuine” moment – and it is coming, soon, sometime between today and tomorrow, or tomorrow and New Hampshire – when Mrs. Clinton, in her ongoing effort to turn herself into whatever the polls says she must be, cries in public. It’s going to be genuinely ghastly.... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:35+00:00

From Love to be Catholic The bells ring, the cock crows and golden sunlight beams in once more…the birds begin their morning song – all creation comes quite naturally, organically, to morning prayer, to lauds, a prayer of pure praise. The created creatures, all together in instinctive wisdom, take time – before their grooming, their hunting or their feeding – for praise. They sing! It happens with every sunrise, in every time zone. Every day, rain or shine. Creation takes... Read more

2017-03-17T04:27:35+00:00

Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed two? G.K. Chesterton Read more

2017-03-17T05:44:34+00:00

:::UPDATE:::: Bob Owens is getting fed up with the media’s breathless-seeming anticipation of the martyrdom of Osama::: END UPDATE::: The worst thing about the Baby Boom generation – besides their delusional belief that everything that came before them needed changing because it was all wrong or lacking in sufficient meaning, is that they keep wanting to re-create those “seminal” moments of their adolescence and young adulthood. That’s why in the late 80’s our entertainment was stuck on “The Wonder Years,”... Read more

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