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Battling The Feds’ Discriminatory Relief Programs

January 24, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Battling The Feds’ Discriminatory Relief Programs

By BARBARA SIMPSON (This article first appeared on WorldNetDaily on January 14. It is reprinted here with permission.) + + We’ve all heard and read the pompous government bragging about how the powers that be are concerned about racial discrimination. To hear them, there should be none and there will be none, especially if you’re talking about government programs.If you believe it, but then again….Consider ranchers in the American West. One of them is Leisl Carpenter. She works the 2,400-acre family ranch in the Big Laramie Valley in Wyoming with about 500 head of cattle. She’s the sixth generation keeping the business viable, and it’s the Carpenters’ sole source of income.Like many families, they have been hurt by the long,…Continue Reading

The Humblest Is The Peer Of The Most Powerful

January 23, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Humblest Is The Peer Of The Most Powerful

By DONALD DeMARCO On January 22, 2022, untold thousands who support life are marching for the forty-ninth anniversary of Roe v. Wade in the Nation’s Capital. This year they have greater hope than ever before that the infamous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision will be overturned. The issue that will soon be before the United States Supreme Court will be a purely legal one, although the abortion issue is primarily moral. The question is whether there is any provision in the Constitution that permits a mother to kill her unborn child. The words of Justice Byron White continue to resonate. In his dissent, he identified the Roe v. Wade decision as an act of “raw judicial power.”History has made it…Continue Reading

Biden: Bull Connor’s GOP Imperils Democracy

January 22, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden: Bull Connor’s GOP Imperils Democracy

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “The next few days…will mark a turning point in this nation’s history,” said President Joe Biden in his Atlanta speech to reframe the debate in Congress on voting rights legislation and the filibuster.He went on: “Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice?…I know where I stand….I will defend…our democracy against all enemies — foreign and, yes, domestic.”And on this issue of light over shadows, good versus evil:“Where will the institution of the United States Senate stand?…“Will you stand against voter suppression? Yes or no?…Will you stand against election subversion? Yes or no? Will you stand for democracy? Yes or no?”“I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to…Continue Reading

Cardinal Cupich . . . Booed And Heckled By Some At Chicago March For Life

January 21, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Cupich . . . Booed And Heckled By Some At Chicago March For Life

By SHANNON MULLEN WASHINGTON, D.C. — An otherwise peaceful March for Life event in Chicago on Sunday, January 9 turned contentious when some in the crowd booed and heckled Blase Cardinal Cupich during his speech at a rally at Federal Plaza.Cupich was escorted away by security personnel after speaking, the Chicago Tribune reported.Approximately one minute into his speech, Cupich, who wore a mask at the outdoor rally, elicited a ripple of boos when he shared words of support for those he saw in the crowd wearing masks.“You know, we come here in these days of the pandemic when life is threatened. And I’m so glad that I see many of you wearing masks. I hope that you continue to look…Continue Reading

“And Then Came Francis”

January 20, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on “And Then Came Francis”

By FR. JOHN T. ZUHLSDORF (Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf’s blog — wdtprs.com — of January 8. See the accompanying full text of Phil Lawler’s article that he cites in his commentary.) + + At Catholic Culture, the perspicacious Phil Lawler makes a good point about the premises of the severely cruel Plessy v. Ferguson legacy document of the Era of Francis. The Backward Logic Of Traditionis Custodes Insofar as Traditionis Custodes provides any explanation for its open hostility toward Catholic traditionalists, that explanation lies in the claim that traditionalist communities have caused divisions within the Church. Therefore, Pope Francis suggests (and the Congregation for Divine Worship even more sternly insists) traditionalism…Continue Reading

Pope Francis’ Latest “Gift” To The Church

January 19, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis’ Latest “Gift” To The Church

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on WorldNetDaily on December 31 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + For Roman Catholics, this Christmas season contained a “gift” they didn’t anticipate and one they wish would go away. It’s a “gift” that applies to Catholics in the United States and all across the world where the Church exists. It has left heads spinning and millions of people — clerics and lay alike — trying to make sense of it.What could cause such consternation? Why, it’s another of the decrees by Pope Francis concerning worship, but this one is a doozy. It’s been called many things, but some have called it “a bulldozing of Old Rite Sacraments.”It…Continue Reading

COVID Gloom Shadows World

January 18, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on COVID Gloom Shadows World

By JOHN J. METZLER As the New Year brings hope and possibility for a global reset and renewal, the tragic reality remains that COVID-19, with all its deadly variants, continues to plague the planet now fully two years after the malady emerged from Wuhan, China. Thus, despite much justified optimism over wider vaccinations, the pandemic has not broken its deadly grip on societies and economies — nor on the collective psychology of most people.So here we stand more than a year after Operation Warp Speed produced three vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives worldwide. Yet stunningly during 2021, and despite widespread vaccinations across America, the USA actually suffered more COVID deaths than in 2020! Fatalities in the U.S.…Continue Reading

Voter ID Requirements Make Sense

January 17, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Voter ID Requirements Make Sense

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY A young man who looks like a teenager walks into a liquor store and pulls a bottle of cheap whiskey off a shelf.He puts it down at the checkout counter and pulls out his wallet.The clerk at the counter looks at him skeptically. “Can I see your ID?” he asks.“Yes,” says the young man, who instantly takes his driver’s license out of his wallet and hands it to the clerk.The driver’s license indicates to the clerk that the customer in front of him had turned 21 two months ago. He sells him the cheap whiskey.Then another young man walks into the store. He grabs a bottle of very expensive champagne and puts it on the counter.Once…Continue Reading

The Road To Emmaus

January 16, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Road To Emmaus

By DONALD DeMARCO The road that stretched from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus, as Luke informs us (Luke 24:13-35), was about seven miles (60 estadia). What transpired in the story of the “Road to Emmaus,” however, has a far richer meaning than the route on which two people, and then a third, traveled. It means far more than the geographical distance between two points or the terra firma that underlies our feet. This “road,” more significantly, is the road to salvation. Moreover, it is the road on which we should all be traveling.It was Easter Sunday, the third day since Christ had been crucified. Two travelers, who began their walk toward Emmaus, were deeply saddened by His death. They…Continue Reading

Where Does NATO Enlargement End?

January 15, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Where Does NATO Enlargement End?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow.Decomposition had only just begun.Transnistria broke away from Moldova. South Ossetia and Abkhazia seceded from Georgia. Chechnya broke free of Russia but was restored to Moscow’s control after two savage wars. Crimea and the Donbass were severed from Ukraine.Besides these post-Cold War amputations, assisted by Russia, what do Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia have in common?All seek admission to NATO, and with it Article 5 war guarantees that oblige the United States to wage war against Russia to restore their sovereignty and territorial integrity…Continue Reading