Category: Society & Common Good

GOP Elites and the Abolition of Marriage
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GOP Elites and the Abolition of Marriage

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Well, this is helpful. A clutch of Republican elites have run to the Supreme Court demanding the judiciary shut off debate on gay marriage. The story has predictably been front page news at the New York Times and in the world of the liberal media, the Times leading with this: More than two dozen Republicans […]

Who’s Behind India’s Barbaric Mega Sterilization Camps?
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Who’s Behind India’s Barbaric Mega Sterilization Camps?

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Raw video footage shows unconscious women in saris being unloaded from a filthy plastic stretcher and lined up like butchers’ carcasses on the ground to recover from surgeries at a “mass sterilization camp” in India. The Indian television network, NDTV, aired the film in February, reporting that 103 women were sterilized by two doctors in […]

My Mother and Father School the Senate
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My Mother and Father School the Senate

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My Mother and Father School the Senate “All right,” said my mother, standing before the members of the U.S. Senate, “it’s time for you to get your act together.” “That’s right,” said my father. “You fools haven’t passed an annual budget in more than three years!” “What is this thing you call a ‘budget’?” said […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits: 3/8/13

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#Julia’sCaesar Even Me & Folly Cartoons has felt the ravages of SEQUESTER!! Due to a minor cut in our projected budget we’ve had to sell off all our inks and paints and send our cartoonist to work in a salt mine in Puerto Rico. We still had enough money for crayons, pencils, and this budget-slashing […]

‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist Rejects Plea Bargain to Avoid Death Penalty
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‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist Rejects Plea Bargain to Avoid Death Penalty

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Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist charged with eight counts of murder for allegedly snipping the spinal cords of newborns and overdosing one patient at his squalid Philadelphia abortion facility, has rejected a plea bargain agreement that would have spared him the death penalty if convicted. Gosnell was brought to court on Thursday from a jail […]

What We Need in a New Pope
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What We Need in a New Pope

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“I hope we get a nice pope,” a good Catholic woman told me soon after Benedict XVI announced his resignation. “I don’t care whether he’s nice or not,” I replied. “I just hope he’s strong.” Actually, I’d be glad if the next pope were nice, with a winning smile and a friendly manner. But vastly […]

The Idol of "Human Rights"
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The Idol of “Human Rights”

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 Our first parents, endowed with every good gift and living in friendship with the benevolent Creator, yielded to the temptation to assert an autonomy that was never their own, exalting themselves over God.  Thus, as illustrated in the masterwork of St. Augustine, was the “city of men” set in conflict with the “City of God.” […]

Empty School Hallway
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Who Needs the Family?

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When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.

Putting Politics Over Public Safety
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Putting Politics Over Public Safety

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An ominous pattern has been developing, particularly of late:  The Obama administration seems determined to subordinate public safety to political expediency.  If a course-correction is not effected promptly, the result is predictable.  Americans will be needlessly harmed, and perhaps killed. The most recent and obvious example was the release last week of hundreds of reportedly […]

Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs (Part III)
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Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs (Part III)

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Concerning the question of sending American women into combat, we have thus far looked at the trajectory of the feminist movement, specifically how it went from advocating basic equality between the sexes to perverting and deconstructing sexuality altogether. There have been two distinct and deliberate effects of this radical feminism: the first being a blurring […]

Gender-Bending Child Abuse
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Gender-Bending Child Abuse

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On February 26, 2013, the Denver Post ran an article that contained the following: Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban The parents of a transgender 6-year-old have filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division because Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain banned the first-grader from using the girls’ restroom. The […]

European Courts Issue New Adoption Law Rulings
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European Courts Issue New Adoption Law Rulings

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This month the European Court of Human Rights and Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (which often takes a leading role in human rights jurisprudence which is frequently cited also by Supreme and Consitutional courts in countries outside Europe) have published decisions regard two separate cases involving the adoption of children by same-sex couples. In Germany, adoption […]

The Absolute Easiest Worm Bin Plans and Instructions on the Entire Internet
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The Absolute Easiest Worm Bin Plans and Instructions on the Entire Internet

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If you have a garden you probably already know that earthworms are good for your garden. You may be aware that one of the best fertilizers is worm castings. If you already compost and do your best to amend your soil with organic matter, you are already going a long way toward attracting these garden […]

Recognizing Population Control in Ethiopia
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Recognizing Population Control in Ethiopia

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Still a Pro-Life Nation The African nation of Ethiopia has a Christian history which dates back to the New Testament, even before Saul’s conversion. In the Acts of the Apostles, we learn that Philip baptized an Ethiopian eunuch who was a member of the court of Queen Candace. Happily, Ethiopia has not abandoned its ancient […]

Washington - Capitol - Mall - Monument
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Meet Mr. and Mrs. Sequester

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The Sequesters — John and Jane — have been married for eight years. They aren’t Hollywood Stars, professional athletes, or nightly-news anchors, so they’re not exactly multi-millionaires. John does have a good job, though. His employer’s business in recent years has been growing, and John has gotten an eight- or ten-percent raise every year for […]

Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity?
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Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity?

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Not so long ago, most ecclesiastical officials and Catholic academicians emphasized solidarity as a political ideal. Owing to a common misunderstanding of both government and solidarity, that emphasis was almost always at the expense of subsidiarity. In recent years, however, the tide in favor of subsidiarity has begun to turn. It remains true that concern for […]

Plutonomy
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Plutonomy

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Plutocracies are societies where majority wealth is controlled by a shrinking minority. They are driven by economies powered and consumed by the wealthiest class over a mass population dependent upon their fortunes. Wealth creation is the principal motivator in these economies and corporations are their vital actors. Snatching public policy away from the hands of […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits 2/22/13

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A Catholic Third Way: Pope Benedict and the Crisis of Global Capitalism
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A Catholic Third Way: Pope Benedict and the Crisis of Global Capitalism

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Benedict’s vision for an alternative political economy resonates with people of all faiths and none.

Abortion and the Morality of Exceptions Clauses in Anti-Abortion Legislation
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Abortion and the Morality of Exceptions Clauses in Anti-Abortion Legislation

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“No exceptions. No compromise.” That is the goal of every true pro-life citizen when it comes to abortion legislation. Rape, incest, and the life/health of the mother have been wedge issues that have been used to establish the principle for acceptable/legal abortion that have led to the more liberalized laws accounting for 55+ Million abortions […]

Lincoln Presenting Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet
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Abraham Lincoln and Slavery

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He insisted for three decades that slavery was a moral evil.

Ronald Reagan - April 4, 1984
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Erasing Reagan? The Illiberal War on Truth

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Falsehood is the enemy of human progress.

Dr. Benjamin Carson - National Prayer Breakfast 2013
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God for Obamacare … Dr. Ben Carson’s Heresy

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Liberals are apoplectic over remarks by Dr. Ben Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson, a prominent pediatric surgeon from Johns Hopkins University, dared to weigh in on healthcare—something he knows something about. In the liberal mind, Carson committed a grave transgression; he disagreed with President Obama on healthcare at a faith venue, and in […]

Defending the Right to Self-Defense
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Defending the Right to Self-Defense

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The recent spate of mass shootings has prompted President Obama and his allies in Congress to pursue new gun control laws with special urgency.  Mr. Obama is correct in sensing that the American people are ready for serious action on this issue, but he is mistaken in thinking that they are in agreement with him […]