Category: Society & Common Good

Rick Santorum Distributing Movie: The Christmas Candle
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Rick Santorum Distributing Movie: The Christmas Candle

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by on Nov 18, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Interviews, On TV and Movies
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“Marketing a movie rivals to some degree running a Presidential campaign.”  So says two term US Senator and 2012 Presidential contender, Rick Santorum.  During last year’s election cycle, Santorum exhibited his organizational and communication skills in winning eleven Presidential primaries, enough to give Mitt Romney a run for his money. In part, no doubt, it […]

Supreme Court Considers Landmark Case on Public Prayer
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Supreme Court Considers Landmark Case on Public Prayer

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by on Nov 16, 2013 in Featured, Law & Justice
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The Supreme Court is hearing a landmark case whether public meetings may begin with prayer, but it could have wider implications on the foundational American principle of freedom of religion. The town of Greece, New York, opens its public meetings by allowing citizens to voluntarily deliver prayers. In February 2008, Americans United for Separation of […]

Middle East – Meeting With Pope and Prayer for Peace
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Middle East – Meeting With Pope and Prayer for Peace

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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Hopes are high, ahead of the meeting of the Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East with the Pope. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, which is in full communion with Rome, spoke to the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), remarking that he expects […]

HHS Mandate Challenge Headed to the Supreme Court
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HHS Mandate Challenge Headed to the Supreme Court

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Featured, Law & Justice
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The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, late Tuesday, filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court asking for review of the HHS Mandate Challenge filed by the Law Center on behalf of Michael Potter and his natural food company, Eden Foods. Erin […]

Appeals Court Blocks HHS Mandate for Catholic Business Owners
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Appeals Court Blocks HHS Mandate for Catholic Business Owners

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of ObamaCare’s controversial contraception mandate in the case of two Catholic business owners. Cyril and Jane Korte, who own and operate Korte & Luitjohanm Contractors, Inc., and the Grote Family, which owns and manages Grote Industries, Inc., argued that the law forces them to violate their […]

Force the Vote!
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Force the Vote!

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with a third of his colleagues as co-sponsors, has introduced in the US Senate a bill to protect children from abortion starting at 20-weeks of fetal age (“22 weeks LMP”). The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has already been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, has been enacted in […]

ObamaCare’s Marriage Penalty
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ObamaCare’s Marriage Penalty

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Marriage
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Would you pay $10,000 a year to stay married to your spouse? Some American couples are being faced with exactly that decision as they consider their health insurance options under ObamaCare. One of the most controversial provisions of ObamaCare is that it requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, whether they want it or not, […]

Lilypad Ecopolis, 2008, Vincent Callebaut Architectures
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Apologies from Utopia

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by on Nov 12, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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What was once character has become branding.

Obama 2013 vs. Reagan 1988
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We Were Warned

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Obama vs. Reagan

Teddy Roosevelt on Horseback
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Theodore Roosevelt and Veterans Day

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Roosevelt strove to promote peace by strengthening the United States.

Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington Cemetery, May 1943
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Cultural Alert! The Disappearance of Heroes – Perception or Reality?

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by on Nov 10, 2013 in Featured, The Social Order
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It is important to hold tight to our heroes.

ObamaCare: Advancing the Abortion Industry
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ObamaCare: Advancing the Abortion Industry

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by on Nov 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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On a Friday night back in December 2009, Senate Majority Leader Reid was in tense negotiations with then-Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, as Reid desperately needed Nelson’s vote to secure Senate passage of ObamaCare. Finally, Nelson had what Politico described as a “breakthrough” that lead to a deal, as Politico reported a few days later. […]

National 20-Week Abortion Ban Introduced in U.S. Senate
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National 20-Week Abortion Ban Introduced in U.S. Senate

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by on Nov 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Ben Johnson also contributed to this article. Nearly five months after passing the House, a bill to end abortion after 20 weeks has been introduced in the Senate. Yesterday morning Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, introduced the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act, which passed the House of Representatives in June, would ban abortions […]

Demolishing Berlin Wall, November 12, 1989
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Tear Down This Wall: Celebrating Victories Over Communism on World Freedom Day

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by on Nov 08, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice
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Nov. 9th is World Freedom Day.

An Open Response to: "Should America Have a One-Child Policy?"
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An Open Response to: “Should America Have a One-Child Policy?”

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by on Nov 07, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Social Order
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Last Tuesday, the Washington Times published an article by Joseph Cotto entitled, “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?” Despite the provocative title, the article does not present a stimulating thought-experiment, but rather a series of half-truths and inconsistencies with dangerous implications. Because such half-truths have been at the ideological root of every forced abortion […]

What We Say and How We Say It
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What We Say and How We Say It

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by on Nov 06, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics
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It’s become a favorite pastime among the press and punditry to blame the Tea Party for the problems plaguing the GOP. If those radicals would just shut up and go away, Republicans wouldn’t be having so many problems. If the Tea Party had stayed out of the way in Virginia, for example, then Bill Bolling […]

Catholic Bishops Say ENDA Could ‘Punish’ Traditional Religious Views
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Catholic Bishops Say ENDA Could ‘Punish’ Traditional Religious Views

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by on Nov 05, 2013 in Featured, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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A bill to forbid “discrimination” against homosexuals and transgender employees could “punish” those who hold to traditional views about sexuality and biology, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) warns. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would penalize employers accused of discriminating against gay, bisexual, or transgender employees. But the Catholic bishops and other Christian critics […]

Rabbit Fire © 1951
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Ta-Daaa! Coronate Ineptitude: Dance the Obama Two-Step

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by on Nov 05, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Remember when Bugs would get in trouble?

Obama Disney Castle
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Government is Magic

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by on Nov 04, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Economy
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Our modernity is style rather than substance.

Godwin's Law
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Godwin’s Law and the American Liberal

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by on Nov 01, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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When the left stifles speech it is chic and heroic.

Like Your Plan Keep Your Plan - Obama
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Why President Obama Lied

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by on Oct 31, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Video
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A 1994 TV ad explains much.

Can Obamacare Inform Us If a Plan Covers Abortion? Sebelius Unsure
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Can Obamacare Inform Us If a Plan Covers Abortion? Sebelius Unsure

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by on Oct 30, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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During testimony this morning before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she doesn’t know whether the administration can commit to ensuring that Americans seeking to purchase health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) exchanges can be told which plans do or do not cover abortion. Rep. […]

The Trainwreck: Obamacare System Down
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The Emperor Has No Clothes

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by on Oct 30, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics
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“Obamacare isn’t a political abstraction any longer. Its success doesn’t depend on spin or solidarity. What matters for the law — and for the people who are depending on it — is how well it actually works. So far, it’s not working well at all.” So concludes Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein (no Obama antagonist) […]

Mottos - Truman - Obama
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Presidential Mottos

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by on Oct 29, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Out of the loop.