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Biden's Bishop responds Bishop

Posted on October 28, 2008
Biden's Bishop responds Bishop Malooly says: In his interview with The News Journal published Oct. 19, Sen. Joe Biden presents a seriously erroneous picture of Catholic teaching on abortion. He said, ?I know that my church has wrestled with this for 2,000 years,? and claimed repeatedly that the Church has a nuanced view of the subject that leaves a great deal of room for uncertainty and debate.

Poll and be damned The American

Posted on October 28, 2008
Poll and be damned The American Thinker predicts a McCain victory. The argument is seductive: the news we are getting is coming from the media that has been in the tank for Obama since February and the media is ignoring the number of hard-core Democrats who are not enthused about, or are actually opposing, Obama: Earlier this week, I attended a John McCain campaign event in New York City.

Hope Blogger Dean Barnett passed

Posted on October 28, 2008
Hope Blogger Dean Barnett passed away the other day at 42 from Cystic Fibrosis. I didn't know Barnett, but his post on his condition and the human connections that brought hope into his life is worth reading.

News of the Weird. Adultery rates

Posted on October 28, 2008
News of the Weird. Adultery rates increase as older generation raised with the idea that infidelity is somehow "very wrong" dies off. The study also points to increase access to pornography and contraception as part of the reason that infidelity is increasing, but that can't be right because those things were supposed to strengthn marriage by encouraging honesty, trusting and sharing...

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For people who want to read a book

Posted on October 28, 2008
For people who want to read a book and feel smart Carl Olsen points out that Ron Howard is coming out with the next Dan Brown-based movie, "Angels and Demons," which is touted as being much better than the tranquilizing bomb "The Da Vinci Code" because Tom Hanks loses his mullet and wears a speedo...

There beats in the heart of liberalism

Posted on October 27, 2008
There beats in the heart of liberalism a deep contempt for the average American Check out this regional opinion essay from the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "White people shouldn't be allowed to vote." The precis of this piece by a "lifelong Caucasian" is that the people he has "broken Kielbasa with" are so stupid and beset by fear that they will believe that Obama "going to fire all the white

Spiritual India Catholic nun raped

Posted on October 26, 2008
Spiritual India Catholic nun raped and paraded through the streets.

Poll places McCain within 2 points

Posted on October 24, 2008
Poll places McCain within 2 points of Obama IBD/TIPP was supposedly the most accurate pollster in 2004. The poll shows McCain with a 9 point lead among Catholics, and, weirdly, a 52 point lead among 18 - 24 year old voters. What's with that?

What's to worry? Cracking down

Posted on October 24, 2008
What's to worry? Cracking down on ungoodthinkspeech. Liberal fascism Round 2 - Group asks IRS to investigate Catholic bishop against Obama.

The New York Times is Junk Here

Posted on October 24, 2008
The New York Times is Junk Here is the story.

Holding Paper CNN's biased use

Posted on October 23, 2008
Holding Paper CNN's biased use against Palin of Byron York's criticism of media bias against Palin reaches of almost palindromic level of absurdity. There's no apology and CNNC is making York's complaint about their biased use of his criticism of their bias a reason for making the biased reporter, Drew Griffin, a profile in courage...

There's no reason to worry The

Posted on October 23, 2008
There's no reason to worry The guy leading in the polls has close connections to someone who calmly and methodically analyzed how to kill 25 million Americans who might refuse to be re-educated. It must have been like time-traveling back to Germany in 1920 and sitting in on an organizational meeting of the NDSWP, except these lunatics had graduate degrees! On which point, some professor who

The next right that some court

Posted on October 22, 2008
The next right that some court will find in the Constitution Check out this Times Online (UK) article on the Brave New World of incest. Or not, if you don't feel up to it. Let's see, we have a constitutional right to privacy, which means keeping the government out of our bedrooms, and that constitutional right means that we can't stigmatize the way that people want to pair off - for now -

Cannibalism, spirituality and why

Posted on October 22, 2008
Cannibalism, spirituality and why does a body have to have a soul Check out this thread to this comment. It was a fairly ecumenical and irenic thread, even with the Catholic-to-PCA convert venting hysterically about the "whore of Babylon." The real action is at the end when Bryan Cross of Principium Unitatis directly and simply explained laid out a Thomistic approach to the major questions.

Enough already.. I get the message Checking

Posted on October 21, 2008
Enough already.. I get the message Checking out at Whole Foods, I noticed the two magazines facing the check-out line. One was Atlantic magazine with a stern visaged McCain next to a teaser about "War is the Answer." The other was Men's Health magazine with a smiling, relaxed Obama next to a teaser about "Health and Fit...

Deep Thinker Joe Biden summarizes

Posted on October 21, 2008
Deep Thinker Joe Biden summarizes 2,000 years of Catholic theology: If it's complex and difficult, then the answer is "do it, if it feels good for you." Reading this stuff can make your ears bleed if you actually are, you know, thinking and have any knowledge of the subject that you didn't read off a NARAL brochure: How do you reconcile your Catholic faith with your position on Roe v...

Does anyone think that the Obama/Biden

Posted on October 21, 2008
Does anyone think that the Obama/Biden Administration will not raise your taxes, promote gay marriage, expand quotas or do any of the other liberal things that they say they don't support? Ignatius Insights has this "revelation" about Joe Biden's position on gay marriage: And now there is this breaking news: On [yesterday?s] episode of ?Ellen,? Joe Biden told Ellen DeGeneres ?that if I lived

Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, Del Monte) According

Posted on October 21, 2008
Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, Del Monte) According to NRO: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi?s home district includes San Francisco. Star-Kist Tuna?s headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi?s home district. Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi...

One Percent Difference in Race

Posted on October 21, 2008
One Percent Difference in Race According to Battleground Poll Check it out here. Of course, who knows what it really means? And it's the electoral votes that matter. Perhaps the media should hold off on the coronation until after the election.

Well, of course, he's not Muslim.

Posted on October 20, 2008
Well, of course, he's not Muslim. His pastor was a Black-Nationalist, America-hating Christian. Zero Updates points out that the quickest way to dispel Colin Powell's claim that McCain's camp is spreading a rumor that Obama is Mulsim would be for it to start talking about his real pastor...

Re: the Problem with "Joe" was

Posted on October 20, 2008
Re: the Problem with "Joe" was Obama's Answer Rush Limbaugh writes: RUSH: I went back, because I remembered something. This past summer, Gallup put out a poll, McCain needs to hammer this. It was June 27th, headline: "Americans oppose income redistribution to fix economy," by 84-13%...

Biden is still a Bozo This quotation

Posted on October 20, 2008
Biden is still a Bozo This quotation from Biden is obviously true, but what a bozo for saying it: ?Mark my words,? the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. ?It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy...

Media Malpractice Instapundit

Posted on October 19, 2008
Media Malpractice Instapundit posts this from a CNN broadcast from "Reliable Sources": On media coverage of money raised during the campaign KURTZ: Mark Halperin, we learned this morning that Barack Obama in the month of September raised $150 million, the early estimates had been about $100 million...

"If you can't ask questions of

Posted on October 19, 2008
"If you can't ask questions of your leaders anymore, that gets scary" Amen! As he points out, Obama was in his neighborhood and he asked a question...and the media is treating him like a class traitor. Hey, media, the problem was not the question, the problem was Obama's answer.

Too funny Fox is running a story

Posted on October 19, 2008
Too funny Fox is running a story on the New York Times' scurrilous attempt to get information from the McCain's 15 year old daughter while scrolling the phone number to cancel "your NYT subscription." The New York Times stock value is falling farther than Bush's favorability rating.

The media has spent more time reporting

Posted on October 18, 2008
The media has spent more time reporting on "Joe the Plumber's" tax problems than on Obama's ethical violations. The Volokh Conspiracy documents the ethical violations that Obama's tax returns show, but which the national media have zero interest in reporting.

Not there yet, but getting closer Science

Posted on October 17, 2008
Not there yet, but getting closer Science Fiction author Jerry Pournelle writes: It doesn't take a Ph.D. in political science to realize that those getting an earned income credit "refund" are likely to vote for those who offer to increase that payment...

More Trials and Tribulations for

Posted on October 16, 2008
More Trials and Tribulations for Generation Narcissus More weirdness among the Generation Narcissus clergy. Did you hear the one about the Catholic priest at Fresno's Newman Center who told the parishioners during his sermon that he was going to vote "no" on Proposition 8 - the Marriage Restoration Initiative? Fresno's Bishop Steinbock removed him from his ministry at the Newman Center,

1984 + 24 When did we move to

Posted on October 16, 2008
1984 + 24 When did we move to Stalinist Russia? According to the New York Times: The chief executives of the nine largest banks in the United States trooped into a gilded conference room at the Treasury Department at 3 p.m. Monday. To their astonishment, they were each handed a one-page document that said they agreed to sell shares to the government, then Treasury Secretary Henry M...

Wanted by the Left for Ungoodthinkspeak The

Posted on October 16, 2008
Wanted by the Left for Ungoodthinkspeak The Left goes after Joe the Plumber. Get back on your reservation, blue-collar worker guy!

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