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The Debt Disaster

June 5, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Debt Disaster

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — both of whom are career politicians — made a deal this past week. They agreed to let the federal debt increase without any limit whatsoever until January 1, 2025.For career politicians that date has special significance: It is after the 2024 elections, but before whomever wins those elections takes office.It is a date designed to minimize debate over the debt in the days leading up to the election.Republican Cong. Michael Cloud of Texas spoke to this point at a press conference the House Freedom Caucus held on Tuesday, May 30. “When we put a debt ceiling out there, we don’t even have the courage to…Continue Reading

Biden — The Catholic President

June 4, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden — The Catholic President

By BARBARA SIMPSON I don’t know about you, but I hate it when politicians — or any other public figures, for that matter — use their religion to gain support for some political position they are taking.I hate it, but it doesn’t stop them from doing it and the media capitalize on it in their headlines. It gains the politician attention and sometimes even gains them support and votes.President Joseph Biden has capitalized on his Catholic religion all through his political career and he hasn’t decreased it during his current role as president. It hasn’t seemed to matter whether what he does or says agrees with his official faith, he just goes ahead and resists any reaction to his actions.…Continue Reading

It’s “Pride Season”: Big Gay Wants YOU!

June 3, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on It’s “Pride Season”: Big Gay Wants YOU!

By HARLEY PRICE (Editor’s Note: This article is an updated version of one of the 46 essays in Price’s new book, Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays on What You Can’t Say or Even Think, available from fgfbooks.com and amazon.) + + In Toronto, where I live, June is “Pride Month,” and the fun is already (as the Rodgers and Hammerstein lyric goes) “bustin’ out all over.” Worldwide, late spring and early summer have become the official season of “pride,” when, as Chaucer famously described it in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the “licour” of universal fecundity commences to course through the sluice-gates of biological nature, and the birds and the bees, reviving from their winter sleep, begin again…Continue Reading

Do I Love A Parade?

June 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Do I Love A Parade?

By DONALD DeMARCO As a Boy Scout I was proud to march in a parade. I was part, however small, of a civic celebration. The spectacle of drum majorettes twirling their batons, slowly moving and elaborately decorated floats, bands piping John Philip Sousa marches, and the town mayor waving to the crowd from a sleek automobile, were all in good fun. What could possibly be questionable about a parade? Fred Astaire and Judy Garland capitalized on the glamour in the parade in Easter Parade. Parades were not only fun, but joy filled.The parade, however, has become intensely controversial and is no longer a spectacle that allcan enjoy. As June gives way to July, many are relieved that the Pride Parades…Continue Reading

Happy Birthday USA . . . How Many More Will There Be?

June 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Happy Birthday USA . . . How Many More Will There Be?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO This week we celebrate the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I guess you might say that I’m a patriotic guy: I easily tear-up when a band strikes up America the Beautiful,” and I joined my college ROTC program after landing 344 in the draft lottery — they would have taken candidates with seeing-eye dogs first!Unfortunately, I wasn’t very much of a soldier; I couldn’t read a map or climb a rope — you know, those kinds of things that soldiers should be able to do well. I did have one accomplishment during my lackluster military career: training as an artillery spotter, the shot I called in actually made…Continue Reading

Feminist Professor Who Vandalized Pro-Life Table . . . Gets Fired After Holding Machete To Reporter’s Neck

June 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Feminist Professor Who Vandalized Pro-Life Table . . . Gets Fired After Holding Machete To Reporter’s Neck

By MICAIAH BILGER WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeNews) — A New York City art professor accused of vandalizing a pro-life student display and later threatening two journalists with a machete has been fired from her job.Shellyne Rodriguez, of the Bronx, was an adjunct assistant professor of art at Hunter College, a public, taxpayer-funded school under the City University of New York (CUNY).On Tuesday, May 23 college spokesman Vince DiMiceli told the Catholic News Agency that Rodriguez’s actions were “unacceptable” and she was fired.“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez, and has taken immediate action,” DiMiceli said. “Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”Earlier in…Continue Reading

A Symptom Of Urban Crime’s Toll On College Students

June 1, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Symptom Of Urban Crime’s Toll On College Students

By ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS In recent years, there has been a surge in violent crime in our nation’s capital, and unfortunately, our college students have not been spared. This issue has become symptomatic of a larger problem that plagues urban cities across the nation, where college students are being robbed and carjacked, all at gunpoint. As these young adults work to educate themselves and become productive citizens, they are faced with a harrowing reality: Crime can find them even in the hallowed halls of academia.Washington, D.C., the city that represents our nation’s values and aspirations, has become a chilling example of the challenges these students face.As parents send their children off to college, they envision a sanctuary of learning, growth and…Continue Reading

San Quentin Prison And School Choice

May 31, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on San Quentin Prison And School Choice

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When I was a boy, I spent some time inside San Quentin State Prison and got to know a few of the inmates there.The San Rafael Little League played its games in that prison and a group of inmates known as “trustees” umpired them.The grounds of San Quentin were considerably larger than the high-walled facility where the worst prisoners were kept — and the trustees who umpired our games did not live behind those walls. They lived instead, as I recall, in Quonset huts that sat west of the big lockup and south of the field where we played ball.These trustees did a remarkable job of maintaining our Little League field. The grass was always brilliant…Continue Reading

Stumbling Toward Heaven?… Will Biden Repent Of His Evils Before A Serious Fall Could Harm Him?

May 30, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Stumbling Toward Heaven?… Will Biden Repent Of His Evils Before A Serious Fall Could Harm Him?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Does Joe Biden understand the generosity that God continues to extend to him and his allies who keep trying to drag nations into degeneracy and death?Even though Catholics have come to expect the promotion of awful immorality by some of the U.S.’s most powerful reputedly Catholic politicians — all of them left-wing Democrats — it still was an awful sight to watch Biden and former House speaker and Cong. Nancy Pelosi feeling glory by lending their presence to the national gala of EMILY’S List, a fund-raiser organization for strongly pro-abortion female politicians.The Hill political news site reported that Biden made an unscheduled appearance at the May 16 radicals’ event in Washington, D.C., praising Pelosi and Vice President…Continue Reading

As His Cause Moves Forward… Joseph Dutton’s 180th Birthday Celebrated

May 29, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on As His Cause Moves Forward… Joseph Dutton’s 180th Birthday Celebrated

By PEGGY MOEN Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu was invited to Stowe, Vt., to help celebrate the 180th birthday of Joseph Dutton, according to a report in The Hawaii Catholic Herald by Patrick Downes, editor. If canonized, Dutton will be the third saint honored for service at the Hansen’s disease settlement in Kalaupapa, Molokai, the other two being St. Damien de Veuster, canonized in 2009, and St. Marianne Cope, canonized in 2012.Dutton’s road from service in the 13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company B, to 40-plus years on Molokai was as rocky as the shores of the Kalaupapa peninsula. Born in Stowe, Vt., April 27, 1843 and raised in Janesville, Wis., Dutton had a Christian upbringing. He attended two different Sunday…Continue Reading