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What We Can Learn About Life From Science Fiction

July 17, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on What We Can Learn About Life From Science Fiction

By DONALD DeMARCO It is paradoxical that science fiction writers can teach us something about life that is nonfictional. On the other hand, politicians can, and often do, turn the nonfictional into fiction. Science fiction writers, imaginative as they are, never lose sight of reality. Politicians, in their eagerness to win the approval of the masses, often stray from reality.In contrast with the politics of convenience (and what is more inconvenient than morality?) one of science fiction’s important lessons is that size does not diminish the value of human life. No matter how small a person is, he remains a person.In the 1966 movie, Fantastic Voyage, a surgical team is microminiaturized and injected through a hypodermic needle into a sick…Continue Reading

New York Times To Biden — Time To Go!

July 16, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on New York Times To Biden — Time To Go!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night on July 9, he likely did not expect to find a severed horse’s head under his bed covers.But there it was, courtesy of The New York Times.“At 79, Biden is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency” ran the headline over Sunday’s devastating front-page story.Message: Time’s up, Joe. Time to go. Second term is out.Biden officials and White House aides acknowledge, the story ran, that, “Mr. Biden looks older than just a few years ago….His energy level….is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire.…Continue Reading

Gov. Ron DeSantis Will Fight For Pro-Life Law In Court

July 15, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Gov. Ron DeSantis Will Fight For Pro-Life Law In Court

By STEVEN ERTELT (LifeNews) — Gov. Ron DeSantis says his administration will appeal a Florida judge’s ruling striking down a pro-life law to save babies from abortions.Less than one week after the Supreme Court upheld a 15-week abortion ban in the state of Mississippi, a Florida judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a 15-week abortion ban Gov. DeSantis signed to save babies from abortions.The law is estimated to save as many as 5,000 babies from abortions.“We’re here today to protect life,” Gov. DeSantis said at a large ceremony to sign the bill back in April. “We’re here today to defend those who can’t defend themselves.”But on Thursday, June 30, Judge John Cooper issued a ruling blocking…Continue Reading

Bishops Say . . . California Abortion Amendment Deserves Vigorous Opposition

July 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishops Say . . . California Abortion Amendment Deserves Vigorous Opposition

By KEVIN J. JONES DENVER (CNA) — California voters will have the opportunity to approve or reject a strongly pro-abortion amendment to the state constitution in November. The state’s Catholic bishops said the proposal gives a “boundless scope” to ending the lives of the unborn when human lives should instead be protected “at every age in every stage.”The proposed amendment “looks to enshrine the most extreme forms of abortion into the California Constitution,” the California Catholic Conference warned in a statement signed by the 12 archbishops and bishops leading the state’s ten dioceses and two archdioceses.“This constitutional amendment, as written, will legalize and protect abortion up to the point just prior to delivery,” the conference said. “It is distressing that…Continue Reading

An Unsecured Border Is A Mortal And Moral Hazard

July 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on An Unsecured Border Is A Mortal And Moral Hazard

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY It happened outside Brackettville, Texas, which sits about halfway between Uvalde and the border crossing at Del Rio.This was a shooting you probably did not hear about — in part, thankfully, because no one was hurt.A U.S. Border Patrol agent was on a road that runs out of Brackettville when he saw a Chevrolet Suburban heading north. It was just before 10:00 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2021.“The USBP agent activated his overhead lights to initiate a vehicle stop on the SUV in order to conduct an immigration inspection,” said a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.“A high-speed pursuit ensued as the SUV attempted to abscond from USBP agents,”…Continue Reading

A Lifeless Pontifical Academy

July 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Lifeless Pontifical Academy

By ANTHONY ESOLEN (Wanderer Editor’s Note: This essay is reprinted with permission from The Catholic Thing [www.thecatholicthing.org], published there on July 2, 2022.) + + We American Catholics who have been fighting for the life of the unborn child had much to celebrate when the Supreme Court at last retreated from its longstanding usurpation of legislative power, and declared that the dismembering of a child in the womb is no longer a right guaranteed by the Constitution. One might think that church bells would be ringing everywhere. We got this from the Vatican organization most concerned with the matter. It deserves to be given in full: + + The Pontifical Academy for Life joins U.S. Bishops’ statement on the decision…Continue Reading

Latest Symptoms Of A Disintegrating Nation

July 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Latest Symptoms Of A Disintegrating Nation

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In Stephen Vincent Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster, the tale is told that if you approached Webster’s grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?”“Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground.”Today, it would be untruthful to answer to the soul of Webster that our Union is “rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible.”For the divisions among us replicate those Webster witnessed in his last years before the War Between the States.A Gallup survey reports the lowest figure ever recorded, 38 percent, for that share of our population that…Continue Reading

A Child Of The Universe

July 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Child Of The Universe

By DONALD DeMARCO I wrote the following poem for our thirteenth grandchild who turns one year old on July 26, 2022. Poetry says more than prose, though its message is far more subtle. The reader must be sensitive to what it intimates. The unconscious has something to reveal that prose does not quite capture.Reading poetry is, indeed, a spiritual activity. I invite the reader to recite the poem aloud and then consider my follow-up commentary. Three hundred and sixty-five rotationsAnd one revolution,And planet earth returns to the very locationIt occupied exactly one year ago;A cosmic redundancy bereft of apparent meaning,Yet, making it possible for an earthly inhabitantTo create a solar system of her ownWith mom and dad, relatives and friendsCircling…Continue Reading

Biden’s Green New Deal Is Increasing Greenhouse Gases

July 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s Green New Deal Is Increasing Greenhouse Gases

By STEPHEN MOORE Here’s an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe Biden’s first year in office, emissions rose.In other words, not only have Biden’s energy policies been a disaster for our economy and national security as we have become more dependent on Russia and Iran, but they haven’t worked as a global warming solution.To understand the utter futility of Biden’s “renewable energy” crusade, we must go back about 15 years in time to when the amazing shale revolution, thanks to energy pioneers such as Harold Hamm of Oklahoma, the man who drilled the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, began. These new drilling techniques have…Continue Reading

Did George Washington Violate The First Amendment?

July 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Did George Washington Violate The First Amendment?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Did George Washington in his first act as president violate the first principle soon to be enshrined in the First Amendment?Did the Congress that approved the First Amendment compel him to do so?On April 7, 1789, three weeks before Washington was inaugurated, the Journal of the Senate reported that the Senate had ordered “a committee…to take under consideration the manner of electing Chaplains, and to confer thereupon with a committee of the House of Representatives.”On April 15, 1789, the committee reported back: “That two Chaplains, of different denominations, be appointed to Congress, for the present session, the Senate to appoint one, and give notice thereof to the House of Representatives, who shall, thereupon, appoint the other;…Continue Reading