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The March for Trump

Every year, the media reports the March for Life and every year the “prolife” movement whines that the media “totally ignored” the March. I think what this demonstrates is that the “prolife” movement listens exclusively to the voices in their own Bubble and does not actually read or watch the media, because they have lied […]

Well done, Gillette!

Of course, the backlash, led by such Christianist Court prophets as Matt Walsh, is massively depressing. Only the most wrong people on planet Earth could see an exhortation to be a gentleman and not a bullying jerk and decide they are so offended they must boycott Gillette forever. It says everything about you, not Gillette, […]

Stephen Lewis replies to the Voris Mob

He writes over at First Things: Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I assigned in a five-student advanced literature seminar at the Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS) during the Spring 2018 semester. Not wishing to further divide our university community, I trusted that my superiors at FUS would handle the matter appropriately and […]

Advice to Dems: Fight Smarter

I regard the GOP Cult of Trump as the gravest domestic threat the US has faced since the Civil War.  It is a cult of malignant and cruel sadists who hear “We’re going to build the wall, and Americans who have lost their homes in natural disasters are going to pay for it!” and *orgasms* […]

Vigano Distracts–Again

  Archbishop Viganò congratulates Cardinal McCarrick of Washington at a gala dinner sponsored by the Pontifical Missions Societies in New York in May 2012 (CNS) Look at the picture. It says it all. Vigano (on the left) was the one man on US soil from 2011-2016 who could have done something about McCarrick (on the […]

Repeating myself for the umpteenth time since I still seem to be a mystery to many readers

There is no prolife party. There is the party that is 100% responsible for the creation (via Roe) and entrenchment (via Casey) of our abortion regime and then there are the Democrats. Roe and Casey are GOP creations. Totally. And in addition, the GOP has authored and passed 8 spending bills since Trump was inaugurated, […]

Today’s phony Christianist “prolife” Panic du Jour

G.K. Chesterton once remarked that the task of the yellow journalist is to shout “ADMIRAL BANGS IS DEAD!” to a public that never knew Admiral Bangs had been born.  A good journalistic liar has a knack for getting his audience ginned up about the end of a story of which his audience has no notion […]

Franciscan University Hands Over Control to Church Militant

So a year or so ago, Dr. Stephen Lewis, who was, until this past Friday, the Chair of the English Department at Franciscan University, taught a class to students  in which one of the texts was written by an atheist who is deeply hostile to the Faith.  It included passages deeply insulting to the Blessed […]

Something to Amaze You on a Saturday

Rebecca Hamilton is an American Patriot and Therefore Cannot Be Silent

Here is a guest column she asked me to run.  I do so with pride: President Trump is threatening to grant himself dictatorial powers. He is making repeated statements about declaring a national emergency at the border and overriding Congress so that he can build his wall. Let’s be clear about this. Whatever is happening […]