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Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?

August 6, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Where Are We Going? And How Do We Get There?

By DONALD DeMARCO I am not a very good reader. Speed reading is not in my DNA. I pick up a book or a magazine and commence reading. But I do not get very far. A provocative sentence stops me in my tracks. I am compelled to meditate on the sentence and draw from it all the intellectual nourishment that it provides.An example of my “read and stop” method is a sentence I came upon from an obscure text in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Although man has a natural inclination toward his ultimate end, he cannot attain it by natural means but by grace only, and this is because of the eminence of that very end.” This is…Continue Reading

Not A Good Deal

August 5, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Not A Good Deal

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his fiscal 1941 budget proposal on January 3, 1940, he introduced it by explaining how his administration had worked to increase the size of government.“The relatively low and constant level of expenditures throughout the nineteen-twenties accurately reflected the relatively minor role played by the Government in those years,” Roosevelt said. “The substantial increase in the past decade is a reflection of the degree to which the country, in response to changing economic and international conditions and changing attitudes, has turned to the Government to meet social needs recognized by our citizenship.“Nowhere are our democratic processes so faithfully depicted,” he claimed.“In the early thirties — prior to 1933 — fiscal policy…Continue Reading

Ron DeSantis Says Dems Are The Radicals On Abortion

August 4, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Ron DeSantis Says Dems Are The Radicals On Abortion

By STEVEN ERTELT WASHINGON, D.C. (LifeNews) — To hear it from the liberal media, pro-life Republicans are abortion extremists because they want to protect the lives of little babies before birth and help pregnant women.But in a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says Democrats are the real radicals because they want to kill babies in abortions up to birth.“So, I said I’m pro-life, I will be a pro-life president, and we will support pro-life policies,” DeSantis said in a recent interview with CNN. But DeSantis went further and called out Democrats like Joe Biden and those in Congress who want to pass legislation reacting to Dobbs that would restore unlimited abortions up to birth nationwide.“I think the danger…Continue Reading

CNN Caught Falsely Claiming Texas Abortion Ban Led To Increased Infant Mortality

August 3, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on CNN Caught Falsely Claiming Texas Abortion Ban Led To Increased Infant Mortality

By MICHAEL NEW WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — On Thursday morning July 18, CNN published a story citing a large increase in the infant-mortality rate in Texas. Data obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services via a public-records request showed that in 2022 the number of infant deaths in Texas purportedly increased by 11.5 percent. A number of other news outlets, including Axios, Straight Arrow News, and Truthout, were quick to cover this increase in infant deaths in the Lone Star State.Unsurprisingly, the CNN reporter was quick to blame the Texas Heartbeat Act, which took effect in September 2021. She made no effort even to discuss other possible reasons for the increase. Alternative causes include increased levels of illegal…Continue Reading

In Illinois… Forced Rentals For Illegals

August 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on In Illinois… Forced Rentals For Illegals

By BARBARA SIMPSON Anyone who has paid any attention at all to the situation at our Southern border, knows that we, as American citizens, have a great problem with people entering this country illegally and taking advantage of the benefits due to American citizens.There are millions of them, and we have no idea where they are or what they are doing. It seems as though every day the situation gets worse, depending on how you look at it.The latest that I saw deals with the state of Illinois and how it interprets its Human Rights Act. There is a new law in the state which deals with landlords and their rights to rent or sell their properties.The new law is…Continue Reading

Illegal Immigration Continues… Despite News Focus On Hot Weather, Politics

August 1, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Illegal Immigration Continues… Despite News Focus On Hot Weather, Politics

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Various aspects of life that were affected by the record-setting length of high temperatures here drew prominent attention in the news, but its impact on illegal immigration through blazing deserts in July didn’t seem to be one of them.Were illegal entrants being deterred by the heat? A report tweeted on July 21 by the conservative RAV-TV News, which isn’t a major network, showed a large group of illegal immigrants being processed for entry at a remote location on the Arizona border.As for the weather itself, one report said people were being burned by stepping outside. Well, no, that injury was caused by making contact with a hot surface. Prolonged exposure to a fierce sun could…Continue Reading

Chinese Communist Party . . . Humiliates Pope Francis With Shanghai Bishop Appointment

July 31, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Chinese Communist Party . . . Humiliates Pope Francis With Shanghai Bishop Appointment

By STEVEN MOSHER (LifeSiteNews) — On Saturday, July 15 Pope Francis caved. After many months of delay, he finally accepted the Chinese Communist Party’s candidate for bishop of Shanghai, a bishop by the name of Joseph Shen Bin.Shanghai, the most important diocese in all of China, was once the See of Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei (1901-2000), one of the most heroic bishops in recent history. Cardinal Kung spent three decades in a Communist prison cell (1955-1985) for refusing to bend the knee to the atheistic CCP and had been secretly named a cardinal by Pope St. John Paul II in 1979. He was exiled in 1987 and spent his remaining years in the U.S.Now the Shanghai cathedral is occupied by…Continue Reading

Should We Cancel Culture?

July 30, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Should We Cancel Culture?

By DONALD DeMARCO When future archeologists examine the ashes of a once proud country, they will find the cause of America’s extinction in her rejection of life. A symptom of her demise is the canceling of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with an entire month dedicated to those who can neither be mothers nor fathers. It was sterility that precipitated her downfall.T.S. Eliot predicted this many years ago where, in his monumental poem The Waste Land, he spoke of “The rattle of dry bones”…“dry sterile thunder without rain,” and “the empty chapel.”The American literary critic Leslie Fiedler has stated that modern man has decided to abolish himself, creating “impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the…Continue Reading

Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay The DEI Leviathan

July 29, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay The DEI Leviathan

By JOSH HAMMER On Thursday, July 20, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her disgraceful antics during the Stanford Federalist Society student chapter’s attempted hosting in March of a speech by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, which was constantly disrupted by outlandish student behavior and ultimately canceled.Steinbach’s resignation represents a modicum of justice following a grievous wrong. Now, Steinbach will have plenty of time to mull over whether the “juice” of her abetting an obstreperous law school student woke mob was worth the…Continue Reading

Biden’s Upside-Down Defense Policy

July 28, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s Upside-Down Defense Policy

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY For decades, federal law has prohibited the Defense Department from spending tax dollars on most abortions.Forty-two years ago, for example, President Ronald Reagan signed a defense appropriations bill that said, “None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.”Three years later, as reported by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Reagan signed a defense authorization that made similar language permanent law. It said, “Funds available to the Department of Defense may not be used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.”In 1988,…Continue Reading