Fr. Strebola, O.P. really got me today. A blessed and holy Lent to all Christians. Remember that we are dust and to dust we shall return: We thirst for His grace and salvation. *Henry Jones Sr. and Indy were right in The Last Crusade: Only the penitent man will pass.
When the question–as the question has been framed for not years but decades now–is no longer, “What policies do the differing candidates possess?”, and has instead become, “Which of the candidates is the least corrupt in the robber-cabal?”, or, “Which one is going to be slowest and most inefficient in stealing from me?”, that’s the…
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Cassie Jaye deserves some sort of medal, award or honor. Sure, it took heroic courage to release The Red Pill. But, all the more impressive was that–though she identified herself as a feminist at the start of the project–she ultimately came to recognize the axiomatic religiosity of radical, second wave feminism; that it is nothing…
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121 years ago today (in fact nearly to the hour I write this), the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy (!), Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Squadron of Commodore George Dewey to ready for an attack of the Spanish fleet docked in Manilla. That’s right: Before the Congress acted and without anyone’s knowledge, this warmonger…
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Is satire so much more effective when it lands so close to the truth?
The actually good presidents of the United States–that state designed to be the smallest and most limited ever created which has become instead, the largest and most ubiquitous in history–are not found on the top of the consensus “presidential” historians’ lists. They are nowhere among the top 10 of the public’s vision of the best…
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To be fair, I forewarn my students that–as we begin a study of the Constitution or Gilded Age economics for that matter–I tend to act like a toddler. Like a toddler, I repeat the question “why” throughout class. “Why is the sky blue?”; “Why do blow-pops tastes so good?”; “How does one get to the…
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Cardinal Dolan of New York writes in a WSJ op-ed today that the Democratic party has “abandoned” Catholic school children and the unborn. No shit, Sherlock. This just dawned on him today, or even this year? Why doesn’t he actually apply canon law and excommunicate Governor Cuomo and any other “Catholic” for whom it is…
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