Call your congressman today and tell him the most needed legislation in America is a symbolic resolution denouncing idiotic symbolic resolutions. Like this one : Republicans in the US House of Representatives called a vote on Tuesday to reaffirm ‘In God We Trust’ as the national motto. . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t bring guns to Church, Wisconsin bishops say Reuters , John Rondy One More Reason the Reformation Still Isn’t Over DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed , Kevin DeYoung Mississippi takes on abortion issue with Nov. 8 vote Washington Times , Wesley Pruden A Last Bastion of Civility, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The day I changed the name of this blog away from Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Obama Administration anti-Catholic or just inflexibly pro-abortion ? A contentious battle between Catholic groups and the Obama administration has flared in recent days, fueled by the new health care law and ongoing divisions over access to abortion and birth control. The latest dispute . . . . Continue Reading »
D.C. city councilman Harry Thomas Jr. knows where he stands . Ditto Jack Evans of Ward 2: “I don’t want to solve global warming . . . I just want bacon with my breakfast.” These are the same comedians who swapped interpretations of the Nativity story on the City Council . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeffrey Polet kicks back on his rocker, and proceeds to shred a whiny-but-poignant-sounding Atlantic article, about motherhood refused and about the true consequences of the sexual revolution denied, to pieces. In a gentlemanly way, of course. Not to be missed. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . in a BIG THINK introduction. . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama has signed an executive order intended to promote sufficient supplies of neccessary, but unprofitable, medications—such as some chemotherapy drugs. That’s good. But from what I could read, the order does not get to the bottom-line cause of the problem. . . . . Continue Reading »
That was the name game . Now we’re playing (and have been for quite some time) the blame game. The Occupiers, with some encouragement from Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the White House, have been blaming the financial industry for their woes. There’s more than enough . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia shares what she’s learned from the saints: In the Office of Readings for today, Saint Bernard instructs: “The saints want us to be with them, and we are indifferent. The souls of the just await us, and we ignore them . . . We should . . . . Continue Reading »
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