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Let’s Pretend

October 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Let’s Pretend

By DONALD DeMARCO When I was a wee lad, and long before our family owned a television set, I looked forward to Saturday mornings when a program by the captivating title, Let’s Pretend, came over the airways. In those nearly forgotten days, the radio had both a unifying as well as an educational power. The show gave me permission to escape from the humdrum order of day-to-day life and dwell in a world created by the imagination. The idea that I could pretend gave me a sense of delectable freedom. I was not tied to a predictable set of rules. My imagination was unfettered and allowed me to envision fantastical things.Let’s Pretend carried me into a world of fairy tales.…Continue Reading

Are The Good Times Over For Joe?

October 23, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Are The Good Times Over For Joe?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “When sorrows come,” said King Claudius, “they come not single spies but in battalions.” As the king found out. So it seems with President Joe Biden, who must be asking himself the question Merle Haggard asked: “Are the good times really over for good?”Consider the critical issue with voters today: the state of the economy.Inflation in September stood at 5.4 percent year on year.With prices of food and fuel rising, the supply chains for goods entering the country and headed for stores, shelves, and showrooms before Thanksgiving and Christmas are clogged. Container ships are backed up in ports, waiting to unload on both coasts. Many of the trucks to carry the goods to inland markets sit…Continue Reading

A Movie Review… “Pray, Brothers, For The Souls In Purgatory”

October 22, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review… “Pray, Brothers, For The Souls In Purgatory”

By REY FLORES Purgatory — The Secret Revelations of Padre Pio and Fulla Horak. This movie is having a limited release in theaters on October 25 and 28, 2021. Visit www.purgatorymovie.com for a theatre near you. While researching this movie, I found that there at least a half dozen movies with the title “Purgatory.” They range in genres from western action, to horror, to this latest one from Polish director and screenwriter Michal Kondrat, whose other films include Love and Mercy: Faustina and Two Crowns, both of which I previously reviewed for this publication.Kondrat’s moviemaking style is unique in the way that his films are often a combination of interviews and dramatic reenactments. The interviews are usually with clergy, historians,…Continue Reading

Archbishop Broglio Says . . . COVID-19 Vaccines Permissible But Troops May Object

October 21, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Broglio Says . . . COVID-19 Vaccines Permissible But Troops May Object

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Service members should not be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine against their conscience, the archbishop of the U.S. military archdiocese said on October 12. In his statement “on Coronavirus Vaccines and the Sanctity of Conscience,” Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA stated that “no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience.”“The denial of religious accommodations, or punitive or adverse personnel actions taken against those who raise earnest, conscience-based objections, would be contrary to federal law and morally reprehensible,” he said.In August, the Pentagon announced that all service members would have to be vaccinated against…Continue Reading

In Pelosi’s First Speakership . . . 4,676,300 Unborn American Babies Murdered

October 20, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on In Pelosi’s First Speakership . . . 4,676,300 Unborn American Babies Murdered

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY During the first four years that Nancy Pelosi served as speaker of the House (2007 through 2010), approximately 4,676,300 unborn babies were aborted in the United States, according to estimates published by the Guttmacher Institute.To put that in more precise language, adopting the accurate wording to describe abortion that Pope Francis recently used, 4,676,300 unborn American babies were murdered in those four years.“It’s more than a problem, it’s homicide,” Pope Francis said about abortion on September 15 as he flew from Slovakia to Rome.“Whoever has an abortion, kills. No mincing words,” said the Pope.“It is a human life. This human life must be respected. This principle is so clear!” he said.“To those who cannot understand, I…Continue Reading

The UN And Gender Ideology . . . Laying Down A Paper Trail For Activists

October 19, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The UN And Gender Ideology . . . Laying Down A Paper Trail For Activists

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (LifeSiteNews) — A key aspect of totalitarianism is that dissenters from the state orthodoxy are punished. As one summation puts it: “Everything not forbidden is compulsory.” We are seeing that with the LGBT movement. Same-sex weddings aren’t just for same-sex couples — they want to force Christian florists and bakers to help them celebrate. It isn’t enough for them to change their pronouns, or even to have the government play along and recognize them either — they want you, and everybody else, to affirm them, as well.We’re seeing how this has played out in the United Kingdom, where young moms have gotten visits from the police for disagreeing with trans ideology on social media, dads have…Continue Reading

Sink The New World Order Tax!

October 18, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Sink The New World Order Tax!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Last Friday, October 8, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to mandate a global corporate income tax for all nations that will not be allowed to fall below 15 percent.“Virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who negotiated the pact.Betraying a nervousness as to how such a minimum corporate tax, dictated by globalists, will be received in Congress, Yellen urged that it be adopted “swiftly.” Yellen is right to be nervous.The tax proposal is a giant leap forward toward a globalism that America has rejected, and its defeat should be made a priority of libertarians, conservatives,…Continue Reading

Zeal For Zeal

October 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Zeal For Zeal

By DONALD DeMARCO The first clue in today’s crossword puzzle was “the fanatic’s feeling.” The answer, as I fully expected, was “zeal.” Now, it is asking too much of a crossword puzzle to be philosophically meticulously. One cannot be cross with a crossword puzzle. Nonetheless, it is a window to the secular world and tends to represent whatever is trendy.Zeal, despite the fact that it is a virtue, is now scorned as if it were a deadly vice. Its diametric opposite is spiritual sluggishness or, in the traditional language of the Seven Deadly Sins, “sloth.” According to the distinguished philosopher, Josef Pieper, sloth is the characteristic sin of our day. It enters people’s hearts and leads them to tip-toe around…Continue Reading

Are China’s Threats To Taiwan A Bluff?

October 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Are China’s Threats To Taiwan A Bluff?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Monday, October 4, four dozen Chinese military aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defense zone, climaxing a weekend of provocations that saw nearly 150 sorties of China-based fighters and bombers.The U.S. State Department countered by issuing a stern statement warning Beijing about the adverse effect on regional “stability” of such “provocative military activity.”Yet even as the waves of Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defense zone, President Joe Biden was reassuring Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that the U.S. would defend the Senkakus from any Chinese attack.Controlled by Japan but claimed by China, the Senkakus are uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea.Our alliances in the Pacific dating to the 1950s have put us in an…Continue Reading

Terry McAuliffe Did Not Go To Government Schools

October 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Terry McAuliffe Did Not Go To Government Schools

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY “You’re an Irish Catholic kid from Syracuse, from St. Ann’s school, right?” asked Hugh Hewitt.“Yes,” said Terry McAuliffe in that January 29, 2007, radio interview.At that time, McAuliffe had just recently become chairman of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. He would later go on to serve as governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, and is now seeking that office again.Back in January 2007, McAuliffe had also published an autobiography, What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals, in which he discussed, among other things, his education in Catholic schools. In his interview that year with Hewitt, he talked about this book and his experience in those…Continue Reading