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Why do we have children? Reflecting

Posted on January 29, 2011
Why do we have children? Reflecting on his two year old daughter's death, Timothy Dalrymple reaches a Thomistic conclusion: We have children because love overflows. I believe as a Christian that I am created in the image of a God who is Love, a God whose love so desired an object that it brought us into being...

Father Barron on St. Thomas Aquinas. Here

Posted on January 29, 2011
Father Barron on St. Thomas Aquinas. Here is a Father Barron post on the death of St. Thomas Aquinas. And here is a transcript of the video. Thirdly, Thomas Aquinas was a deep humanist, precisely because he was a Christian. He saw that since God became human in Christ, the destiny of the human being is divinization, participation in the inner life of God...

We need global warming. Given

Posted on January 28, 2011
We need global warming. Given the fact that we are living through the end of a temporary inter-glacial period in a glacial age which is moments away from ending (in geological time), this is not the best news we could read: Himalayan glaciers are advancing: Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually

"If only prison officials could

Posted on January 27, 2011
"If only prison officials could marry." Mark Shea points to this story on the scandal of sex abuse in youth prisons and notes: And let's hear it for the bang up job Laurie Goodstein and the NY Times are doing tracking those pervert prison officials with their customary prosecuting zeal...

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The problem with Free Speech is

Posted on January 27, 2011
The problem with Free Speech is that... ....if you let everyone have it, then people can't help but to learn things. For example, I saw the headline of a post about a bunch of rabbis slamming Glenn Beck for slamming George Soros for collaborating with the Nazis and not feeling bad about it, but that was when he was 14 years old and I'm willing to cut 14 year olds a lot of slack when it comes to

"All your money belong us." Patterico's

Posted on January 26, 2011
"All your money belong us." Patterico's Pontifications points out this line from President Obama's State of the Union Address: He said it in the prepared text and in the speech itself: The bipartisan Fiscal Commission I created last year made this crystal clear...

Remember the victims of Communism

Posted on January 26, 2011
Remember the victims of Communism and see this movie. I am listening to Richard Pipes book on Communism on my Ipod.  I've just gone past the horrific tale of Stalin's Terror where 1,000 people a day were summarily executed to meet a quota and millions of innocents were consigned to the hellish conditions of the Gulag...

Water is wet, the sky is blue,

Posted on January 25, 2011
Water is wet, the sky is blue, Richard Dawkins makes another "silly ass" strawman argument. Over at Boing-Boing, Dawkins makes an argument about .... based on .....loosely related to ....whatever.....the discrimination practiced by the University of Kentucky in not hiring "alleged Creationist astronomer Martin Gaskell" because he's an "alleged Creationist...

When did the intellectual class

Posted on January 25, 2011
When did the intellectual class stop believing in free speech? Probably around the time that the intellectual left realized it had lost control of the valves of public discourse. The American Sociological Association calls for Fox News to censor Glenn Beck for pointing out that Sociologist Frances Fox Piven had called for violent riots along the line of the violent riots in Greece: As officers

Holding Paper - Keith Olbermann. Check

Posted on January 24, 2011
Holding Paper - Keith Olbermann. Check out the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawick's  take on Keith Olbermann's legacy at MSNBC.  Also, check out David Shuster - the doctrinaire liberal apologist for MSNBC -  who denies that Olbermann and his cohosts heckled the GOP victors they were interviewing on election night...

And now for our next number, "Die

Posted on January 23, 2011
And now for our next number, "Die you running dog lackeys of capitalist oppression." Chinese pianist plays anti-American song at White House dinner. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online...

Schadenfreude Alert. Keith Olbermann

Posted on January 22, 2011
Schadenfreude Alert. Keith Olbermann fired at MSNBC. Have you no job, sir!

Peter Leithart Contra Munde As

Posted on January 22, 2011
Peter Leithart Contra Munde As Peter Leithart points out in his ?Defending Constantine: the Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christianity,? Emperor Constantine has often been made into the bête noire of those who have some particular grievance against the world they live in...

This is why I recommend going to

Posted on January 21, 2011
This is why I recommend going to community college for lower division... it is cheaper and the teachers actually teach. People are shocked - shocked! - learn that half of all students are not learning anything during their first two years of college...

The Angry Atheist. The New atheists

Posted on January 21, 2011
The Angry Atheist. The New atheists seem like an angry bunch.  Christopher Hitchens, for example, regular likens God to a North Korean dictator and Richard Dawkins thinks that parents commit child abuse when they raise their children in a religious tradition...

A little boiling water, a little

Posted on January 20, 2011
A little boiling water, a little melted butter, and it goes right back to legendary status. Scientists discovery new species of "legendary" giant crayfish. In Tennessee! In Tennessee, reports recently surfaced of a gigantic crayfish that no one had ever seen before...

The playing out of an old story. Unfortunately,

Posted on January 20, 2011
The playing out of an old story. Unfortunately, Romel Hawal's story has been that of a lot of Christians throughout the Islamic world - being the last Christian in a formerly Christian town, city or region: The last Christian man in town goes to church each morning to clean the building and to remember the past...

Abortion-related Violence. This

Posted on January 19, 2011
Abortion-related Violence. This is the kind of attitude that made for excellent Nazi Concentration Camp physicians. According to this story: A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said

"Dishonest or Deaf." This was

Posted on January 19, 2011
"Dishonest or Deaf." This was a silly debate format, but this excerpt fairly accurately depicts the dilemna of deciding whether Dawkins is intentionally dishonest or just asinine.

Famous journalist Seymour Hersh

Posted on January 19, 2011
Famous journalist Seymour Hersh explains to audience in Quatar that American military is controlled by the Vatican. According to Foreign Policy: In a speech billed as a discussion of the Bush and Obama eras, New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh delivered a rambling, conspiracy-laden diatribe here Monday expressing his disappointment with President Barack Obama and his dissatisfaction with the

Civility. At Theology for Dummies,

Posted on January 19, 2011
Civility. At Theology for Dummies, the latest kerfuffle involves "civility" and whether it is obscene to call someone a "silly ass." On the former, there is this interesting call for balance by Msgr. Charles Pope.  After citing some seemingly intemperate language by Christ and the Apostles, Msgr...

Lefties fostering a climate of

Posted on January 19, 2011
Lefties fostering a climate of violence. But this was different. This was a politically correct climate of violence. Back in 2009 - when dissent was still patriotic, rather than a horrifying foreshadowing of the incipient violence of right-wing anarchist, Dr...

The narrative changes, conveniently. Dissent

Posted on January 18, 2011
The narrative changes, conveniently. Dissent - patriotic under Bush, an incitement to violence under Obama. Question patriotism?  Anathematized under Bush, quite acceptable under Pelosi. And, now, as Liberal Blogger Mickey Kaus points out: Which leads me to wonder: If the current frenzy for "civility" means Republicans have to take the sharp edges off their Tea Partyish rhetoric, will that

"You can't handle the truth!" "Thou

Posted on January 18, 2011
"You can't handle the truth!" "Thou Shalt Not! The WaPo?s ?On Faith? Blog Spikes a Regular Contributor When He Writes on Islam." Apparently observations like the following were too hot to handle: 3. Because Jesus was a failure and Muhammad a success, Christians from the start learned how to be a minority religion and survived Jesus? failure only by the fact that he didn?t stay dead...

"Father, I'm Jewish." Saint Josemaria

Posted on January 18, 2011
"Father, I'm Jewish." Saint Josemaria Escriva talks to a Jewish girl about honoring her parents' wish that she not convert as a way to Christ.  It is a quietly fascinating moment, made more so by the saints obvious humanity.

Conservative reasons to love "Chuck." At

Posted on January 17, 2011
Conservative reasons to love "Chuck." At NRO. What's not to love when Major Casey observes: "We are under strict orders from President Clinton to seal this place up. While I might not like him, or his mouthy wife, those are the orders.? And:  ?Because the only thing I hate more than hippie and neo-liberal fascists and anarchists are the hypocrite, fat-cat suits they eventually grow up to

"Shut up," they dialogued in the

Posted on January 16, 2011
"Shut up," they dialogued in the "national discussion on global warming." "Why have the UK media ignored climate change announcements," asks the Guardians Climate Blog.  Apparently the answers - such as the serial lies and Stalinist tactics used by AGW advocates - were not the right answers because the Guardian moderators have deleted a majority of the initial responses.

Don't concern yourself with our

Posted on January 15, 2011
Don't concern yourself with our Dhimmis! Egypt withdraws its ambassador to the Vatican: Egypt had described as ?unacceptable? the Pope?s remarks about recent attacks against Christians in Egypt. In an address to diplomats Pope Benedict recalled the December 31 bomb attack on a Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria that left 23 people dead...

Astronomy and Astrology. You thought

Posted on January 14, 2011
Astronomy and Astrology. You thought you were a Capricorn?  Hah! Because of the precession of the Earth you are now are now a Sagittarius. Curse that wobble!

Breaking News from Soviet Canuckistan. Canadian

Posted on January 14, 2011
Breaking News from Soviet Canuckistan. Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council bans Dire Strait's "Money for Nothing." It was No. 1 in 1985, but it's unacceptable for Canadian eyes and ears today. The Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" was ruled by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to be "extremely offensive" and thus inappropriate for airing on radio or television because it uses

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