The Obama administration is defending its use of drones to assassinate people outside of combat zones without due process. In the linked article, the organizations cited against the government’s position in the matter are all leftist (like, for instance, the … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
Lady Marines to Front?
Chivalry may not be dead, but it’s in critical condition. (The New York Times) The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer … Continue reading
The United Nations and the Vatican
As noticed in our last instalment, the Holy See under the last several Pontiffs has chosen to collaborate with the United Nations in a number of areas, apparently in hopes that “creative engagement” may guide that body in better directions … Continue reading
Terminally Ill Bishop Sends Ailing President Chavez a Challenge to Truly Repent and Make Amends
Here is a clip from the letter as posted by Catholic News Agency: There is a phrase Jesus uses in the Gospel, which, by the way, Cardinal Urosa just mentioned on television, which says: “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, … Continue reading
Ambassador to Vatican Hopes Hungary’s New Constitution Ignites a Christian Renaissance
Zenit: Hungary’s Ambassador to the Holy See is rather perplexed by the negative reaction of some European figures and institutions to his country’s new Constitution — a document he sees as offering a possible impetus to a “Christian renaissance” in … Continue reading
Diabolical Foreign Policy: Spreading Fruitlessness Abroad
Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon fostered a policy of government promotion of contraception. That is according to an article by Russell Shaw entitled “How U.S. government got tied up with contraception.” Mr. Shaw shows the complicity of certain high-profile Catholics … Continue reading
The Church and Globalism, Part I
For many orthodox Catholics, the word “globalization” immediately raises hackles — it evokes fears of loss of national sovereignty, of undesirable immigration, of Masonic conspiracy: in a word, the spectre of a Satanic “One-World Government.” Images of the Bilderbergers, the … Continue reading
Libya: ‘Mission Accomplished’ as Islamists Desecrate Graves
The SSPX site La Porte Latine has a video of Libyan Islamists — now free to do such things — knocking over headstones on Christian and Jewish graves, and mauling a stone cross erected in the cemetery. Below is a … Continue reading
Sandra Fluke: Insurance Must Cover Transgender Mutilation
“Sandra Fluke is not what she is being sold as. Instead she is a liberal activist pushing some rather radical ideas. Keep that in mind as the left holds her up in the spotlight.” So says Stephen Gutowski, who made … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan: Anti-War, and Old Right
With a mind for modern history rarely equaled by rival wags, the fired conservative bad-boy of MSNBC still keeps articulating the case for a sane foreign policy. Talking such sense is what got him canned in the first place, God … Continue reading
Thoughts Triggered by the Firing of Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan was recently fired from MSNBC after a ten-year association. Pat and I worship at the same extraordinary-rite Sunday Mass in the nation’s capital, but I haven’t had a chance to speak to him since his firing. I have … Continue reading
Nancy Pelosi: Spiritual Imbecile
Quoth the Congresswoman: “Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age that are Catholic use contraception. So, in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn’t … Continue reading
A Frightening Future If We Do Not Change
Review of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Patrick J. Buchanan, Thomas Dunne Books, 2011 This 428 page book, containing copious notes in the end note section (1104 of them to be exact), is so jam-packed … Continue reading
Obama’s ‘Unacceptable’ Compromise, and Lies
CatholicCulture.org and cnsnews.com both have coverage of the Bishops’ response to President Obama’s “compromise” on the HHS contraceptive mandate. Worth noting in the Bishops’ statement is their assertion that “coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients” is …both unsupported … Continue reading