Last night, I was driving my son, Buster to his job and we had the radio on and tuned to talk radio. Buster was a little annoyed that I wasn’t allowing him to listen to a CD, but I told him – “You can listen to ELO anytime you want, right now the Pope is dying…” Buster has a vague appreciation of John Paul II. A few years ago he had to write a report on a global figure and... Read more
Look, I am very appreciative – to a point – of the fact that President Bush has strong feelings about protecting the office of the presidency from the taint of scandal, yadda yadda, all very good. But this situation with Sandy Berger just stinks to high heaven, and I’m disgusted that case begun under the Ashcroft Justice Department and culminating on the watch of Alberto Gonzales has given Berger such a slap on the wrist for stealing and destroying top... Read more
Reposted this date due to numerous requests: Suppose you are alive, but paralysed. Your mind seems to be in working order, but you can’t say much. You’re happy to see your family who come to visit you all the time, and you do make every effort you can to respond to your surroundings. You enjoy the sunshine in the morning, when your nurses open the curtains, and you like the sound of rain falling upon the window, and at night,... Read more
I am so sorry that when you died, your parents and siblings were not permitted to be with you. …the parents and their two other children “were denied access at the moment of her death. They’ve been requesting, as you know, for the last hour to try to be in there and they were denied access by Michael Schiavo. They are in there now, praying at her bedside.”It is completely and utterly heartbreaking to read this. Be at peace, in... Read more
I’ve been meaning to say something to you folks for a couple of weeks. I get some emails from guys in the military, and I often peek and find them reading the blog, particularly in the wee small hours – I’m always especially humbled to see whoever it is that’s reading me out of Baghdad – to think that someone whose courage and sacrifice and commitment I so admire is actually reading little old me. I thank you, and yes,... Read more
Dirty Harry is posting a tape of Terri Schiavo responding to her father, a tape made just two years ago. Listen to it here. Terri is clearly hearing and responding to her father. This is heartbreaking.While you’re at it, if you can bear it, after listening to Terri and understanding once again that she is being made to die, for NO GOOD REASON, listen to Bill O’ Reilly’s rant against the ACLU. I don’t usually watch him, but I’m glad... Read more
I thought this was a pretty good read. Found it at the Catholic Carnival.Merely knowing about the resurrection of Jesus pales into dusty insignificance compared to the everlasting comfort and ecstasy of actually knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord: having him in one’s heart, walking through life with him at one’s side, luxuriating in the many graces he showers on his faithful ones in the Sacraments and so many other ways.Yes, it’s real. Christ is risen. Jesus lives eternally... Read more
Ed Morrissey serves up a furious helping of completely correct and justified righteous indignation at the arrogant and condescending tone of the final opinion rendered by the Eleventh Circuit. Sez the court: “In resolving the Schiavo controversy, it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers’ blueprint for the governance of a free people our Constitution [sic].” Sez Ed:... Read more
But I didn’t shrug! I thought it was actually WAY kewl of LaShawn Barber (who looks great in green, btw) to highlight my humble thoughts on the Document of Dubious Origin on MSNBC’s Coast-to-Coast. You can check it out here, thanks to Ian at Political Teen. What a great kid! I was having a sort of yucky day, so that was a neat surprise. I think LaShawn is a natural, on TV, don’t you? She seems very comfortable. Trey and... Read more
I heard Peggy Noonan speak that line on a discussion panel some years ago, during the Clinton Administration, when “scorched earth” was the policy and when suddenly, it wasn’t enough to disagree with someone – you had to hate them, too. Decent people may disagree and still be decent people. I’m wondering if maybe that’s not a bumpersticker we need to see made. I wonder if we’ve had enough scorched earth, yet. I’m not talking about making nice-nice and smoothing... Read more
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