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The Banning Of Novak Djokovic

February 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Banning Of Novak Djokovic

By JOHN YOUNG The expulsion of Novak Djokovic from Australia by the Australian government has made worldwide headlines. The government claims this ban is justified, even though it deprives Djokovic of the chance of achieving a world record in the sport to which he has contributed so much.This issue involves more than a decision about a particular individual. It raises very serious concerns about government power and how it was exercised in this case. Consider the reasoning given by the authorities for their action.It is summed up in these words from Stephen Lloyd SC, lawyer for the Immigration Minister Alex Hawke. “Rightly or wrongly he is perceived to endorse an anti-vaccination view and his presence is perceived to contribute to…Continue Reading

A Potpourri . . . Skepticism, Final Causes, And Some Apocalyptic Thoughts

February 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Potpourri . . . Skepticism, Final Causes, And Some Apocalyptic Thoughts

By GEORGE A. KENDALL The issues surrounding modern philosophy’s addiction to skepticism — that is, to questioning whether it is possible to know reality — to know what is (being), as opposed to being locked up in our own subjectivity — can be clarified by reference to an old proverb: “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” We know things (beings) because they reveal themselves to us by reaching out to us through our senses.Another way of saying this is to say that they give themselves to us. The whole world of knowable realities is a gift to us, ultimately coming from our Creator, and the only real question we might ask about it is: How are we, with…Continue Reading

By The Numbers, A Failing President

February 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on By The Numbers, A Failing President

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated.For, as the left painted the Capitol riot as an “armed insurrection,” “domestic terrorism,” “attempted coup,” and political atrocity that stands beside Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as “a day that will live in infamy,” Republicans were displacing the Democrats as America’s first party.Democrats began 2021 as the preferred party of 49 percent of the country. Only 40 percent identified as Republicans.When 2022 began, the standings had been reversed.Forty-two percent of Americans identified as Democrats, and 47 percent as Republicans,…Continue Reading

Debt Up $2 Trillion In One Year Of Biden

January 31, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Debt Up $2 Trillion In One Year Of Biden

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When President Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021, the federal government’s debt stood at $27,751,896,236,414.77.When his first year in office ended on January 20, 2022, it stood at $29,867,021,509,573.92.That means that during Biden’s first 12 months in office, the federal debt grew by more than $2 trillion — or $2,115,125,273,159.15 to be exact.How do you put that in perspective?The United States of America had existed for 210 years — and 40 presidents had served as this nation’s chief executive — before the debt first topped $2 trillion in 1986.On January 1, 1790, when President George Washington was serving his first year in office, the total federal debt was $71,060,508.50, according to data published…Continue Reading

Looking For Something That Is Not There

January 30, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Looking For Something That Is Not There

By DONALD DeMARCO Dear children: This year’s Easter egg hunt will be different. But it will be better in many ways. It will be “post-modern,” a phrase you may not understand, but believe me, it will be better than the usual boring and divisive Easter egg hunts of the past. This year there will be no eggs! Now, I agree, that this might sound strange, but it is thoroughly up-to-date.In the old-fashioned hunts, there were eggs to be found. But the finders would gratify their egos and strut around like peacocks as if they had accomplished something important. In addition, they would be the envy of all the disappointed seekers. We do not want to paint children as “winners” and…Continue Reading

Is Biden Right? Does The Left Own The Future?

January 29, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Biden Right? Does The Left Own The Future?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with.Namely, how to get off the defensive.How to avoid spending his time with the White House press corps defending his decisions and explaining his actions as allegations of failure, one after another, were tossed up at him?Biden entered knowing what issues would be paramount and what questions would be raised:Why had he been unable to control a coronavirus pandemic now killing 2,000 Americans a day? Why was he unable to contain an inflation eating up the wages, salaries, and savings of American families at a yearly rate of 7 percent? Why was…Continue Reading

ADF Protests New Jersey’s Extreme Pro-Abort Legislation

January 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on ADF Protests New Jersey’s Extreme Pro-Abort Legislation

TRENTON, N.J. — Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Burke on January 14 condemned New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s signing Thursday of S. 49, a bill that drastically expands abortion in the state and endangers women’s health:“Every human life is valuable, precious, and worthy of full protection. Yet Gov. Phil Murphy just signed into law legislation that codifies a radical ‘right’ to abortion, allowing abortion for any reason up until birth and blocking future passage of commonsense and medically appropriate abortion regulations.“This dangerous legislation is another brazen attempt by the abortion industry to push its extreme agenda at the expense of unborn babies and their mothers. The bill further expands taxpayer funding of abortion, forcing New Jersey citizens to be…Continue Reading

Why Kids Shouldn’t Have Smartphones… Media Exploitation Of Ted Cruz’s Teen Daughter

January 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Kids Shouldn’t Have Smartphones… Media Exploitation Of Ted Cruz’s Teen Daughter

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (Editor’s Note: Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator, and others. He is a contributor to LifeSiteNews.) + + (LifeSiteNews) — This past week on LifeSiteNews.com, Doug Mainwaring penned an excellent report on the LGBT media’s decision to exploit the 13-year-old daughter of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over posts she made on social media. On TikTok, Caroline Cruz noted that she “really” disagrees with “most of his views,” and her bio lists her pronouns and identifies her as “bi.” When asked by…Continue Reading

The Feast Of The Presentation… The True And New Ark Of The Covenant

January 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Feast Of The Presentation… The True And New Ark Of The Covenant

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY We will be celebrating the Feast of the Presentation on February 2, a commemoration of the occasion when our Lady and St. Joseph took the Child Jesus up to the Temple forty days after His birth on Christmas day. The presentation of the firstborn child in the family was commanded in the Law, and was meant to be a reminder for the Jewish people that their ancestors had been delivered by God from slavery in Egypt.In contrast, the firstborn of the Egyptians had been killed as a punishment for the treatment, at the hands of Pharaoh, of the Israelites (Exodus 12: 29-30). In addition there was a requirement that the firstborn child should be redeemed at…Continue Reading

The Treason Of The Intellectuals

January 25, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Treason Of The Intellectuals

By ALICE von HILDEBRAND (Editor’s Note: In honor of Alice von Hildebrand, we reprint here from our September 17, 2015 issue one of her most timeless and profound commentaries.) + + The infallible way to gauge the “health” of a nation is by checking upon its family life and its educational system. One need not be a keen observer of our society to perceive, to one’s grief, that both Western Europe and the United States are morally and socially decadent. Statistics tell us that the number of broken marriages, divorces, and homosexual relationships have increased in dramatic proportion in the course of the last 60 years, and possibly longer than that.The family is the very heart of a nation: a…Continue Reading