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Rewriting Dante. More data explaining

Posted on April 03, 2010
Rewriting Dante. More data explaining why the Democrats think that we can balance the budget by spending trillions as Charlie Rangel declares Judas to be a saint who was "ultimately forgiven."

False but accurate in that Post-modern

Posted on April 02, 2010
False but accurate in that Post-modern narrative kind of way. Erin Manning calls B.S. on the New York Times: In the meantime, though, I would have been willing to bet that we all had that supposed "story" about Pope Benedict and Father Murphy all straightened out now, right? The pope didn't "cover up" anything or "cancel" the trial; the trial was still ongoing when Murphy died, and any "

Go out and buy Tinman. Neal McDonough

Posted on April 02, 2010
Go out and buy Tinman. Neal McDonough has been fired for refusing to engage in "TV sex scenes" with Viginia Madsen on "Scoundrels."  McDonough's reason for refusing is that it would conflict with his deeply-held Catholic beliefs. How rare for someone to have deeply-held beliefs that they sacrifice for...

Theological Tidbits... ...from

Posted on April 01, 2010
Theological Tidbits... ...from a discussion at "Theology for Dummies." 1. "Convert themselves" A. Arminians The language following "convert themselves" reads "by freely assenting to and co-operating with that said grace." Don't Arminiams believe that Christians freely assent to - and therefore cooperate with - grace in becoming converted? B...

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Spot the idiot. Richard Dawkins

Posted on April 01, 2010
Spot the idiot. Richard Dawkins on "Pope Nazi." Richard Dawkins from Young Australian Skeptics on Vimeo. This shows that Dawkins general level of knowledge outside of his specialty is no more sophisticated than that of the average person who buys into the "conventional wisdom...

Yet, these people think that they

Posted on April 01, 2010
Yet, these people think that they can create a new multi-trillion dollar entitlement and shrink the deficit a the same time. Check out Dem Congressman Hank Johnson interrogate an Admiral at a Congressional Hearing in order to express his deep concern that Guam might tip over because of "over population...

Good Question. George Neumayr

Posted on March 31, 2010
Good Question. George Neumayr asks: Pope Benedict has taken serious steps to address the abuse scandal in the Church. What steps have a degenerate liberal elite taken to protect children in society at large? The feverish drive to silence and smear the Pope?from the New York Times to pundits like Andrew Sullivan and Maureen Dowd to editorialists at the National Catholic Reporter?is not about the

Back when Dissent was Patriotic A

Posted on March 31, 2010
Back when Dissent was Patriotic A trip down memory lane.

Constitutional Law From the Cato

Posted on March 31, 2010
Constitutional Law From the Cato Institute - 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police

MSNBigotry Watch. NBC has apologized

Posted on March 31, 2010
MSNBigotry Watch. NBC has apologized for MSNBC headline claiming that Pope Benedict apologized for "touching a boy." NBC APOLOGIZES FOR MSNBC?S HIT ON POPE March 30, 2010 NBC apologized today for an article on MSNBC?s website entitled, ?Pope Describes Touching Boys: I Went Too Far...

Obligatory Newsweek "Think Piece"

Posted on March 31, 2010
Obligatory Newsweek "Think Piece" Crapping on Some Christian Doctrine in Time for Easter. It's as regular as the swallows returning to Capistrano. This year Newsweek takes on the most Easter of Easter doctrines - Resurrection. It's Easter?that most pleasant of springtime holidays?when children stuff themselves with marshmallows and stain their fingers with pastel dyes...

Great Moments in American Culture. 160

Posted on March 31, 2010
Great Moments in American Culture. 160 cheesy Schwartzenegger movie lines.

The End of Empathy. Dr. Helen

Posted on March 30, 2010
The End of Empathy. Dr. Helen Smith has a nice essay up on the reasons why man liberals can talk a good game about empathy and compassion, but don't seem to have any empathy and compassion when dealing with real life conservatives. What kicked off these reflections was Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom getting an e-mail from an old college professor who wanted his name removed from Goldstein's "

Dan Barker is a tool. I just

Posted on March 30, 2010
Dan Barker is a tool. I just listened to Barker's latest debate against Cardinal George Pell. Someone asked Barker to explain how he could criticize the life of someone who had given their life to others, such as Mother Teresa. He then spent a minute dumping on Mother Teresa as a fraud and a PR expert...

It's nice to know that I'm not

Posted on March 30, 2010
It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks at the "signs of the time" and says "WTF?" Victor Davis Hanson on the timing of the current mess: The strangest thing about Obama's gargantuan, trillion-dollar-plus new health-care entitlement is the timing...

The brave Washington Post gives

Posted on March 30, 2010
The brave Washington Post gives a platform to the crazy bag lady. It's a shame to see how far Richard Dawkins has descended into tinfoil hat craziness. It's also a shame that the Washington Post has so little concern for its own reputation that it would give a platform to something that would clearly be seen as "raving bigotry" if it didn't target the bete noir of liberals...

Who would have guessed that writing

Posted on March 30, 2010
Who would have guessed that writing off half of all potential viewers would not not translate into market success? Now is the time that we do "The Dance of Joy for the Suffering of Others." CNN loses almost half of its viewership in the last year. Plus a graph! Now we do the "evil villain laugh" - Bwahahahahaha!

Witchhunt! The legacy media is

Posted on March 30, 2010
Witchhunt! The legacy media is going to suffer another black eye on this one. Father Thomas J. Brundage, who was the judge in the canonical Criminal Trial against Father Lawrence Murphy, provides information in the Catholic Anchor - the official publication of the Diocese of Anchorage - that cannot be found in the New York Times...

The Myers Shuffle, or Why Terry

Posted on March 29, 2010
The Myers Shuffle, or Why Terry Eagleton thinks that Richard Dawkins is a Disgrace to Atheism Edward Feser writes: Well, the New Atheists have incorporated this ??give-it-a-name? maneuver? into their own rhetorical bag of tricks, and the name they?ve chosen is ?The Courtier?s Reply...

A Reply... ...to the Courtier's

Posted on March 29, 2010
A Reply... ...to the Courtier's Reply.

The Argumentum ad Publicity. If

Posted on March 29, 2010
The Argumentum ad Publicity. If we hear a lot about something, it must be true. Carl Olson at Ignatius Press responds to Maureen Dowd's recent vituperation attempting to tarnish Pope Benedict with an American priest scandal.  There's plenty of blame to go around, but - weirdly, in light of who Dowd chooses to blame - not as far as Benedict...

Since we are getting near Easter... ...it

Posted on March 29, 2010
Since we are getting near Easter... ...it must be time for the obligatory news stories scandalizing Christians. And, so, we learn that atheist author Philip Pullman - author of the "Dark Design" children books - has a new book where Mary gave birth to twins - a good one and a bad one...

Living History The Dominican

Posted on March 29, 2010
Living History The Dominican Rite.

Science Proves Catholic Doctrine. In

Posted on March 29, 2010
Science Proves Catholic Doctrine. In this case, it is social science proving Paul VI's predictions about widespread contraception were correct. Here is the abstract of the paper From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization...

Thomism and Intelligent Design A

Posted on March 29, 2010
Thomism and Intelligent Design A discussion.

Remember the old days under Bush?

Posted on March 29, 2010
Remember the old days under Bush? When dissent was patriotic... ...and recess appointments were evil? For the record, I have no problem with Obama doing what other presidents have done, albeit I have to wonder why he needs to make recess appointments since his party overwhelmingly controls the Senate...

Reaping the Whirlwind. Democrat

Posted on March 29, 2010
Reaping the Whirlwind. Democrat polling numbers post the Obamacare bill are looking like there is going to be a big blow-out for Republicans in November.

Debate Cardinal George Pell v.

Posted on March 27, 2010
Debate Cardinal George Pell v. Atheist Dan Barker

The Virtue of Anger I'm cross-posting

Posted on March 27, 2010
The Virtue of Anger I'm cross-posting this from Facebook so I can preserve a few links here: Even if there is such a thing as "righteous anger", and it seems to me there is, it wouldn't follow that "anger is a right". Do you disagree, Mr. Bradley? :)My response: Good question...

James Taranto... ...observes: ?One

Posted on March 27, 2010
James Taranto... ...observes: ?One sign that ObamaCare is both bad and unpopular is that since its enactment?indeed, since just before its enactment?its supporters have been laboring mightily to change the subject. They?re eager to talk not about their great legislative and social achievement, but about how violent, racist and all-around crazy ObamaCare opponents are...

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