My beloved son, Lawrence Charles McClarey, passed away of a seizure last night. I found him this morning at 6:15 AM when I attempted to rouse him for the “Daddy Readings” that he and I had done daily since he was a small boy. Larry had autism, an infectious smile, and was a continual joy [...]
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Pentecost: Why Was the Holy Spirit Sent?
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 19th, 2013
Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his sermon on Pentecost, explains why the Holy Spirit was sent to us: I say, first, the Holy Spirit is sent without His needing to be sent. When someone is sent to a place so that an event may happen which could not happen unless he were sent, this [...]
May 19, 1863: First Assault at Vicksburg
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 19th, 2013
After his successes at Jackson, Champion Hill and Big Black River, Grant assumed that Confederate morale might be low enough that Vicksburg could be taken by assault and avoid a time consuming siege. In that he was mistaken. The Confederates lacked the strength to defeat him in open battle. but they had both the [...]
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No Comments »IRS Scandal: A Warning
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 19th, 2013
Hattip to CDR M at Ace of Spades. Once you have governments using their resources against political adversaries the results can be dire indeed. From the proprietor of the blog War News Update: I know that this news story is not a defense/war/conflict post …. but many are asking for my opinion [...]
IRS Scandal: When You Have Lost Piers Morgan…
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 18th, 2013
Hattip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. Let’s see, it was only back in January that Piers Morgan, Brit and obnoxious CNN talking head, pooh-poohed the idea that America could ever have a tyrannical government. Go here to read my comment at that time. In the above video, in which he is talking to [...]
The Southern Soldier Boy
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 18th, 2013
The gentlemen killed and the gentlemen died, But she was the South’s incarnate pride That mended the broken gentlemen And sent them out to the war again, That kept the house with the men away And baked the bricks where there was no clay, Made courage from terror and bread from bran And propped the [...]
IRS Scandal: You Are Going to Love Obamacare!
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 17th, 2013
This is almost getting farcial. The IRS bureaucrat in charge of the tax exempt division of the IRS during the persecution of conservative groups is now the head of ObamaCare enforcement for the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted [...]
IRS Scandal: Enforcer for Planned Parenthood
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 17th, 2013
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. Dave Barry Ronald Reagan used to say that in his neighborhood the IRS was regarded as a terrorist organization. I think a more apt current description of it is as an enforcer for [...]
Back When We Had a Real President
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 16th, 2013
The speech in the video is a section of Reagan’s Time For Choosing speech in 1964 that led to the beginning of his political career which culminated 16 years later in him being elected president. Reagan said of the Marines: Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to [...]
Obama as the Devil’s Advocate
Posted by Donald R. McClarey on May 16th, 2013
“What manner of men had lived in those days…who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and [...]
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