Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Prayer in Time of Grief

  O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heavenly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel.       Hattip to A Catholic Mom in Hawaii.  Since the death of my son Larry I have [...]

Democrat Nightmare Come True

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… I have had but [...]

Ottawa Catholic school board amends partnership policy but critics fear scandals will continue

by Peter Baklinski OTTAWA, Ontario, June 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) amended its “Partnership, Sponsorship, and Donations” policy last week after repeatedly facing parental backlash over choices of school trips, events, and speakers that parents say were hostile…

Quotes Suitable For Framing: Saint John Fisher

    I am jumping the gun a bit as the feast day the great bishop of Rochester shares with Saint Thomas More is June 22, but any day is a good day to recall the eloquence, faith and learning of the martyr Saint John Fisher.  In his essay on Psalm 101 Saint John has [...]

IRS Scandal: Holly Paz

Holly Paz, a former IRS Supervisor in Washington has some interesting things to say: A Washington-based IRS supervisor acknowledged she was personally involved in  reviewing Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status as far back as 2010, Fox  News confirms — a detail that further challenges the agency’s initial claim  that the practice of singling out those [...]

Obama: Banning late-term abortion shows ‘contempt’ for ‘the Constitution,’ assaults women’s rights

by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has announced that, if Trent Franks’ bill to restrict late-term abortion nationwide passes, he will veto it. In a Statement of Administration Policy, the president called the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection…

Cuomo’s radical late-term abortion expansion act dies in NY State Senate

by Ben Johnson ALBANY, NY, June 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A controversial provision that would have struck down late-term abortion restrictions in New York state has died in the state senate. The measure, which would have radically expanded abortion-on-demand for reasons of “health,” among other…

Oldest Duggar child to head Family Research Council’s legislative arm

by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Josh Duggar has starred on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting for 11 years, but soon he’ll have a new role: at the helm of a pro-life, pro-family legislative action group in the nation’s capital. Josh Duggar, the oldest son of Jim Bob and…

GOP leadership adds rape, incest exceptions to 20-week abortion ban; House votes tomorrow

by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has required a late-term abortion ban include a rape and incest exception following remarks by its chief sponsor last week that the media have misrepresented as dismissing the impact of rape.…

IRS Scandal: Our Nomenklatura

In the old Soviet Union and its Eastern bloc satellites, those who administered the country through the vast byzantine bureaucracies that sprang up were referred to by dissidents as the nomenklatura.  In Marxist terms they were a privileged class, living off the work of others, ruling them and using their positions for their benefit and to attack [...]

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