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KELO takes a church; utilitarianism on the march

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Heather Wilhelm details how a church (non-tax-paying) is being taken to make room for tax revenues! Since the Supreme Court’s controversial Kelo decision last summer, eminent domain has entered a new frontier. It’s not just grandma’s house we have to worry about. Now it’s God’s house, too. “I guess saving souls isn’t as important,” says Reverend Gildon, his voice wry, “as raking in money for politicians to spend.” The town of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, has plans to take Centennial Baptist... Read more

Tales of the wiretap!

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Bruce Feirstein in the NY Observer has a witty take on the “scandal.” For almost 10 years, almost everyone who labors in the made-up spy trade has used the National Security Agency—and Echelon—as the all-purpose, all-knowing, “this-is-your-worst-nightmare-of-government” Big Brother stand-in of choice. We all know the key words that trigger Echelon. They’re listed on hundreds of Web sites. We all watched Steve Kroft’s Sixty Minutes report in February 2000, exposing the potential abuses of the system and its use by... Read more

I’m gonna “home COLLEGE” Buster…

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

After reading Sigmund’s account of a campus forum ostensibly meant to forment understanding well…this is troubling, as Joe Biden would say, very troubling: In any event, the presentations were made and they were followed up by questions. Naturally, the self absorbed undergrads immediately took to the floor and predictably found novel ways to repeat the same thing, that we all need to get along. They ended their profound remarks with misunderstood quotes from Khalil Gibran, Kierkegaard, Andy Warhol and their... Read more

Slain Soldier and Daughters of St. Paul

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

My L’il bro Thom sends this along – a story of a young life lived in service, one way or another. Sgt. Myla Maravillosa and friend Family and friends said a U.S. soldier from Hawaii who was killed in Iraq on Christmas Eve felt honored to serve her country but that she also was contemplating a different kind of service — religious life. Sister Susan John Kraus, a Daughter of St. Paul, said Sgt. Myla Maravillosa was thinking of joining... Read more

“Come on in, it’s awful!”

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Julie links to happy news, at least for us Catholic, as Owen and his family complete the trip to Rome. Welcome, friends! I know it’s not an easy trip – I am so glad for all the good you will bring to our church, and we NEED you! The other happy news: Moneybags is gonna be a priest! Congrats! And so is one of my Elder Son’s pals from highschool, who enters seminary in September! Then there are these Dominican... Read more

The war that can be stopped? UPDATED

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Niall Ferguson suggests Pre-emption is the key but wonders if the world has the nerve for it. He suggests diplomacy will not work with Iran. Since the president of Iran feels like he is on a mission to usher in a sort of messiah, Ferguson’s guess is probably right. Here, he forecasts what history will say: The devastating nuclear exchange of August 2007 represented not only the failure of diplomacy, it marked the end of the oil age. Some even... Read more

Will the Barrett Report be spiked?

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

While some conservative news outlets – most notably talk radio and Fox news have discussed The Barrett Report (the ten year, 23 million-dollar investigation into the Clinton-era HUD-nominee, Henry Cisneros and the goings on surrounding his nomination) the major news outlets have written nary a word. The heavily-redacted (25%) paper will likely go under-reported, just like stories of voter fraud in Wisconsin and arrests of real terrorists, planning real terror made thanks to the NSA wiretaps. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr... Read more

This time of year, my inner gay-man is out!

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

You folks haven’t seen my inner gay man since last year’s Oscars but he’s in there, and he’s just chomping at the bit trying to get out and gush or bitch at the gowns as Hollywood begins its season of self-congratulations. I miss my brother, S. He and I used to watch the “red carpet” walks while on the phone with each other, and no one was bitchier than he, particularly if a dress was so full of fronds and... Read more

Good Wishes and Girl Crushes

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I’m actually a few days late in offering congratulations, but I was under the weather. Happy Blogoversary to Victoria, who confesses to having a “woman crush”. This is the kind of post that you should not approach if, being male, you don’t have Kleenex and Kiehl’s hand lotion near you, or, if female, without memories of that time at spring break in Cancun. Namely, it’s about a woman, a heterocurious woman (sadly), admitting she likes certain other women. I frankly... Read more

Show of “good faith?”

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

So, in Scotland, there is a Catholic school with a student body that is 90% Muslim. The Campaign for Muslim Schools said 90 per cent of pupils at St Albert’s Primary, in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, are Muslim, yet children are having to take part in Catholic rituals like saying the Lord’s Prayer and attending mass. Osama Saeed, co-ordinator of the alliance of Glasgow’s main mosques and Muslim organisations, said he could see no reason why the main faith... Read more

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