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Germany Looks Forward to Finally Being Good Guys in a World War with Racist Regime

Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Amerikkka under Donald Trump But, of course, the Alt Right Trump supporter notes that this is (((David Frum))).

Can you be prolife and anti-war?

In Pittsburgh, it’s not enough for people with a consistent life ethic that cherishes human life from conception to natural death to be opposed to war.  First, they must pass a completely irrelevant litmus test by believing and professing the goodness of abortion. Aimee Christine Murphy, God bless her, continues to bear consistent witness to [Read More...]

Steven Greydanus speaks the truth

So good white Christian Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter (a fact confirmed by dangerous Marxist network FOX)… and the Party of Brownshirt Lovers of Threats and Violence loved it, which is why Mona Charen had the unenviable task of trying to tell this party of neutronium-skulled thugs that they must stop denying, excusing and defending [Read More...]

The Copts of Egypt Astound and Move…

…the Muslims of Egypt with the power of forgiveness and their Christ-empowered will to mercy. Had dinner last week with an Egyptian family across the street.  Lovely, sweet folk.  They are Muslim and the husband’s best buddy growing up was Christian.  Just the nicest people.  The bulk of Egyptian Muslims are in their boat, watching [Read More...]

The Unquiet Conscience of Christian Civilization

Part 6 of my series on the Death Penalty over at The Catholic Weekly. But slowly and surely the Spirit presses on the conscience of Christian civilisation. The practices they inherited from their ancestors (and the cruelties they devised on their own) – evisceration, hanging, drawing, quartering, skinning alive, burning at the stake, drowning, pressing [Read More...]

Off to our Hidden Island Redoubt!

Back Tuesday!  Have a good Memorial Day Weekend!

Blunting Caesar’s Sword

A brief look at the history of the Church’s conflicted relationship with Caesar’s power to kill, aka Part V of my series on the death penalty at The Catholic Weekly.

The Immense Gamble the GOP is Taking…

…is in leaving a massively incompetent, stupid, and unstable narcissist in command of the mightiest military and national security state in the history of the world and betting that there will not be some really serious crisis not of his own making. The crises this buffoon has already visited on his party and his country [Read More...]

Not a Normal Human

After very intelligently confirming that he betrayed Israeli assets to the Russian while standing next to a mortified Netanyahu, one of the three or four smartest Presidents in the whole history of everything (according to Newt Gingrich) went to Yad Vashem and continued Operation Charm Offense or Offensive Charm or something like that. On the [Read More...]

The Latest Connecting the Dots is Here!

Doug O’Brien and I take a look at how a Catholic should respond to the latest assaults on normality and common human decency and intelligence: