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ACLU Wants Illegal Immigrant’s (Unborn) Child Terminated

October 26, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on ACLU Wants Illegal Immigrant’s (Unborn) Child Terminated

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The American Civil Liberties Union wants to see the unborn child of a young woman who is illegally in the United States terminated — through what it insists is her “right” to abort that child. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia best summarized the key facts in the case of Garza v. Hargan. “In or about early July 2017, 17-year-old Jane Doe (J.D.) became pregnant,” Henderson wrote in dissenting from her court’s ruling in this case. “On or about September 7, 2017, she attempted to enter the United States illegally and unaccompanied. By J.D.’s own admission, authorities detained her ‘upon arrival’.” “Notably,” the judge said, “elective abortion…Continue Reading

The Existentialist Dread Of Five-Year-Old Girls

October 25, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Existentialist Dread Of Five-Year-Old Girls

By SHAUN KENNEY My youngest daughter was horrified at a world-shattering thought: Cartoons aren’t real. Now in order to really dive into this revelation that each of us must have had at some point, imagine oneself absorbing the idea of a myth — any myth — with the wonder and amazement of a child. One implicitly believes. After all, why would you question the facts as presented to you? St. Thomas Aquinas summarizes this best with what should have been the instant refutation of the Cartesian cogito ergo sum — nothing is first conceived by the intellect which is not perceived by the senses. Thus the good old-fashioned Peripatetic Axiom is the mantra of every child right up until the…Continue Reading

Media Technology Advances… But Newsrooms Live 45 Years In The Past On Knowing Abortion Law

October 24, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Media Technology Advances… But Newsrooms Live 45 Years In The Past On Knowing Abortion Law

By DEXTER DUGGAN Within living memory, news film from Europe had to be flown across the Atlantic Ocean to New York before it could be shown on U.S. television networks. No real-time repartee occurred between the New York studio and the distant overseas correspondent looking into a camera lens. Thanks to technological advances, though, today’s news consumers routinely expect to watch reporters anywhere on the globe speaking instantly and directly with the Manhattan news headquarters. Get your fresh facts while they’re hot. One area of the news, however, where communication apparently hasn’t improved over the decades is reporting the status of abortion law in the United States, and how radical it is. Although the U.S. Supreme Court mandated expansive permissive…Continue Reading

The Gun Did It!

October 23, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Gun Did It!

By MIKE MANNO On August 1, 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman, an engineering student at the University of Texas, took a sawed-off shotgun, three rifles, and two pistols to the twenty-eighth floor observation deck of the University Tower in Austin. There he began to indiscriminately shoot at the people below, some of whom were as far as two blocks away. Finally, Police Officer Ramiro Martinez shot and killed Whitman, ending the 96-minute rampage that killed 15, including an unborn child, and left 43 others injured. Later it was found that earlier that day Whitman had killed his wife, Kathy, and his mother, Margaret. He had stabbed both women to death. Thus ended the saga of the first modern mass killing in…Continue Reading

Marathon Run Against Establishment . . . Tests Direction Of Bannon And Ingraham At Arizona Event

October 22, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Marathon Run Against Establishment . . . Tests Direction Of Bannon And Ingraham At Arizona Event

By DEXTER DUGGAN SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Some marathoners on the road to the 2018 elections passed through this Phoenix suburb in mid-October, testing whether their compass is true. Is former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon taking the right steps by urging war on the political establishment, or pointing Republicans a wrong way that splits the GOP, enabling Democratic victories? Bannon was joined by strong Donald Trump backer and national radio host Laura Ingraham at an October 17 rally here for Kelli Ward, a physician and former Arizona state senator looking to defeat unpopular Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, whose name repeatedly was booed by audience members filling a hotel ballroom on North Scottsdale Road. Challenging a system viewed…Continue Reading

Is California The “Specter Haunting America”?

October 21, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Is California The “Specter Haunting America”?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In the early 1970s, when I was working as a musician in Los Angeles, a song came on the radio that was so good that I actually pulled off the freeway, found a phone booth, and called the station to ask about it. “We’ve been playing it for a week,” the gal admonished me. “Everybody’s playing it.” “Well, I hadn’t heard it yet.” “Where are you from,” she asked. “Indiana.” “Oh,” she laughed, “they won’t get it out there for a month.” Welcome to California as America’s future. But is it still the Golden State? Recent events indicate otherwise. The natural disasters are bad enough. Fires are raging in wine country and beyond, with suspected arsonists either…Continue Reading

Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?

October 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With his October 13 declaration that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran. Indeed, it is easier to see the collisions that are coming than to see how we get off this road before the shooting starts. After “de-certifying” the nuclear agreement, signed by all five permanent members of the Security Council, Trump gave Congress 60 days to reimpose the sanctions that it lifted when Tehran signed. If Congress does not reimpose those sanctions and kill the deal, Trump threatens to kill it himself. Why? Did Iran violate the terms of the agreement? Almost no one argues that —…Continue Reading

Getting Our Priorities Right In The Sacred Liturgy

October 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Getting Our Priorities Right In The Sacred Liturgy

By JAMES MONTI (Editor’s Note: For four of James Monti’s sources, books from the late sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the passages quoted are from pages lacking page numbers or folio numbers, so he had to give the “signatures” of the pages instead. This involved some odd-looking designations utilizing colons and parentheses — they may look like typographical errors, but actually they’re not.) + + + As someone who has tended to focus upon the “nuts and bolts” of the development of the Church’s liturgical ceremonies over the centuries, I found I had much to learn from the presentations during the recent three-day annual conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy in Philadelphia (September 28-30). For in the talks I attended,…Continue Reading

LGBT Mass… Leaves Some San Diego-Area Catholics Thinking People Were Misled

October 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on LGBT Mass… Leaves Some San Diego-Area Catholics Thinking People Were Misled

By DEXTER DUGGAN Leadership at the Catholic Diocese of San Diego seriously misled Catholics and others with the way a special Mass for LGBT people was offered at St. John the Evangelist Church in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood, some orthodox Catholics who attended the event told The Wanderer. The Mass was scheduled to observe the 20th anniversary of the Always Our Children letter on same-sex attraction, issued in the name of the U.S. Catholic bishops but never voted on or discussed by them as a body. It was called back for revision the following year, 1998. A “heavy police presence,” noted by a local television station, was outside the Hillcrest church, reportedly because of threats received, but the time passed…Continue Reading

Free Speech Or Forced Speech… Public Accommodations Vs. Religious Liberty

October 17, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Free Speech Or Forced Speech… Public Accommodations Vs. Religious Liberty

By MIKE MANNO The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, right? Well, mostly, but we’ll deal with the exceptions another time. What concerns me this week is whether there is a corresponding right not to speak, and, if so, what constitutes actual speech, and how far does this go? The courts have long held that speech need not be verbal, or, for that matter, contain words. It can be symbolic, such as wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War. It can be vulgar, pornographic, and can even take the form of an inanimate object or a piece of art. So since the government cannot, in general terms, prohibit the exercise of free speech, even in symbolic terms, can…Continue Reading