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Love And Death

July 16, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Love And Death

By DONALD DeMARCO There is a scene in the movie Moonstruck (1987) in which Rose Castorini puts to Johnny Cammareri, her near son-in-law, the question, “Why do men chase women?” It was a question that had bothered her for some time. Rose, played by Olympia Dukakis, knew who she was and was happy about her station in life. She was a wife and mother and found no reason to stray from these roles.Why would her husband and other men she encountered chase women? Johnny, played by Danny Aiello. is a weak and indecisive character. He tries to accommodate Rose and fumbles for an answer. He suggests that men want to get back what God took from Adam so that they…Continue Reading

Democrats’ Assault on “Our Democracy”

July 15, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Democrats’ Assault on “Our Democracy”

By JOSH HAMMER At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats and left-wing activists have invariably complained about the imminent perils threatening “our democracy.” Time and again, Democrats have depicted virtually any action they do not approve of — from uncouth Trump tweets to state-level GOP-led election integrity initiatives to standard originalist Supreme Court picks — as ushering in proto-authoritarianism or “democratic backsliding,” to use the corporate media’s favorite term of art.Taken at their word, Democrats and left-wing activists’ stipulated concerns about “our democracy,” which proliferated in particular after the Jan. 6, 2021, jamboree at the U.S. Capitol, would suggest a heightened concern…Continue Reading

Pro-Life Groups Want Pentagon . . . To Stop Forcing Americans To Fund Abortion Travel

July 14, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pro-Life Groups Want Pentagon . . . To Stop Forcing Americans To Fund Abortion Travel

By MICAIAH BILGER WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeNews) — Pro-life organizations urged U.S. House leaders this month to stop the Biden administration from forcing taxpayers to fund abortion travel for military members and their families.First reported at Fox News, the letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other leading Republicans says Americans want the military to “focus on winning actual wars, not fighting culture wars” and most do not want their tax dollars to fund abortions.Issued in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, the new Department of Defense policy requires taxpayers to pay for travel and time off for military service members and their families to have elective abortions. If allowed to continue, Republicans estimate the policy will result in approximately…Continue Reading

Rolling Stone’s Hit Piece On Matt Walsh… Only Proves The Success Of “What Is A Woman?”

July 13, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Rolling Stone’s Hit Piece On Matt Walsh… Only Proves The Success Of “What Is A Woman?”

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (LifeSiteNews) — A couple of weeks ago, Rolling Stone published an essay intending to expose the viciousness of “right-wing influencers” titled “The Right Boosted Trans Hate — And Ran Up Their Follower Counts.” The catalyst for the hit piece was the astronomical success of Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman? on Twitter, which racked up 170 million views, a number that may not refer to people who watched it all the way through, but is incredible nonetheless. Other metrics buttress the success — the documentary was shared over 837,800 times over the past 120 days.Predictably, Rolling Stone selected their interviews carefully, going first to the disgraced anti-Christian activist group the Southern Poverty Law Center, which…Continue Reading

Cultural Crisis Is Spiritual Crisis

July 12, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Cultural Crisis Is Spiritual Crisis

By PAUL KRAUSE St. Augustine explained how a society devoid of God, or any basic metaphysical center for a people and society to aim for, inevitably reduces itself into relativism. Augustine’s insights are simple yet profound. Cultural crisis and catastrophe are the result of spiritual crisis and catastrophe.The Roman philosopher Marcus Varro compiled 288 different philosophies and answers to the only question philosophers could agree upon, that the purpose of human existence is happiness. So, while the philosophers agreed that happiness was the purpose of life, Varro’s now lost book which provided those 288 answers, cited by Augustine in The City of God, reveals a stunning inability about how to achieve happiness.Yet even pagans like Marcus Varro, Aristotle, and Cicero…Continue Reading

“Walk Carefully! Drive Carefully!”

July 11, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on “Walk Carefully! Drive Carefully!”

By BARBARA SIMPSON While the news is focusing on the terrible snafus at airports — delays, cancellations, and just air-chaos for passengers — there’s a problem that is not really getting the attention it should be getting.Does anyone know about the number of pedestrian deaths in this country? Does anyone really care? The Governors Highway Safety Association does, and it is concerned. We should be as well.The latest compilation of statistics shows that the number of pedestrians who were hit and killed by vehicles in 2022 was the highest in 41 years — since 1981. These figures reflect the situation in Washington, D.C., and 49 states except Oklahoma, which had a technical problem with its data.Looking at figures since 2010,…Continue Reading

“Walk Carefully! Drive Carefully!”

July 10, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on “Walk Carefully! Drive Carefully!”

By BARBARA SIMPSON While the news is focusing on the terrible snafus at airports — delays, cancellations, and just air-chaos for passengers — there’s a problem that is not really getting the attention it should be getting.Does anyone know about the number of pedestrian deaths in this country? Does anyone really care? The Governors Highway Safety Association does, and it is concerned. We should be as well.The latest compilation of statistics shows that the number of pedestrians who were hit and killed by vehicles in 2022 was the highest in 41 years — since 1981. These figures reflect the situation in Washington, D.C., and 49 states except Oklahoma, which had a technical problem with its data.Looking at figures since 2010,…Continue Reading

Contradictions In High Places

July 9, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Contradictions In High Places

By DONALD DeMARCO The most fundamental of all philosophical principles is that a thing cannot be itself and at the same time be something other than itself. A square cannot be a triangle. A human being cannot be an aardvark. One would expect, if not demand, that people who occupy high places in the government would not only be familiar with this principle, but honor it in practice at all times.Yet, this principle of non-contradiction seems to be alien to certain political dignitaries. When it is violated, rational discussion comes to a halt.The Equal Protection Clause of the United States Fourteenth Amendment states that all U.S. citizens must receive “equal protection of the laws” and that their “privileges or immunities”…Continue Reading

Biden In The Wind

July 8, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden In The Wind

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Except for a modest number who go by ferry, almost everybody who travels between Marin County and San Francisco does so by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in some kind of vehicle.They may do it in a car, a truck, a bus or on a motorcycle — unless they are President Joe Biden.If you are Biden, you do not cross the bridge at all — and you do not take a ferry. Instead, you take a helicopter — even if you are only traveling the short distance from Crissy Field, which sits just below the bridge in San Francisco, to Mackey Field, which is about 10 miles north of the bridge at the College of Marin.The…Continue Reading

The Spanish Legend Of El Cid As A Metaphor Of Catholic Martyrdom

July 7, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Spanish Legend Of El Cid As A Metaphor Of Catholic Martyrdom

By JAMES MONTI Each year July 6 arrives in early summer as a day sanctified by the blood of two of the Church’s most renowned and beloved martyrs, St. Maria Goretti (+1902) and St. Thomas More (+1535). Both died on this day, albeit 367 years apart. Their shared death anniversary is a most fitting occasion to reflect upon the eternal splendor of sacrificing oneself for the cause of God and of truth as seen through the lens of an epic movie and epic legend about one of Spain’s most renowned national heroes.We have all heard the saying, “Truth is stranger than fiction,” and indeed it often is. But fictional literature and drama can just as strangely elucidate great truths. The…Continue Reading