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Humor And Philosophy

September 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Humor And Philosophy

By DONALD DeMARCO Humor and philosophy are intimately related. An indication of this is that we laugh when we recognize that underlying a joke is a fractured philosophical principle. “Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly, and the players lie well,” dances on the equivocation of the word “lie.” Humor evokes spontaneous laughter. Philosophy take time to digest. Our sense of humor is innate. Our grasp of philosophy requires cultivation. A humorist needs a stage; a philosopher needs a classroom. A good joke spreads like wildfire; a philosophical insight often lies in the dust. Nonetheless they need each other as a dance needs music.If laughter is our best medicine, as some people have claimed, it seems to…Continue Reading

Bad Moon Rising For Biden — And Us

September 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Bad Moon Rising For Biden — And Us

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “April is the cruelest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, The Waste Land.For President Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which is now mercifully ending.When has a president had a worse month?On the last Sunday in August, Biden watched solemnly, hand over heart, as the coffins of the American dead in the Kabul airport terrorist massacre of Thursday, August 26 were carried off the plane at Dover.The American dead had been carrying out an evacuation of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies from America’s lost war, a defeat dealt to us by the same Taliban we ejected from power in 2001 for providing…Continue Reading

“Failure In Chief”…Another Lost War

September 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on “Failure In Chief”…Another Lost War

By BARBARA SIMPSON (This commentary first appeared on WorldNetDaily on August 20. It is reprinted here with permission.) + + “The President.” “Our Leader.” “Commander in Chief.” “Leader of the Free World.”Uh, no, I don’t think so.How about “aging, incompetent, self-centered, possible traitor”?I know, that’s nasty, but when I look at what has transpired in the last week and see the headlines in this country and from around the world in countries that have been our allies, it does make one wonder.It makes me wonder what happened to my country, the land that supports our freedom and those worldwide who aspire to freedom.It makes me wonder, and I don’t like what I see: the man who is president, Joseph Biden,…Continue Reading

The Twentieth Anniversary . . . Let’s Heed The Lessons Of 9/11

September 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Twentieth Anniversary . . . Let’s Heed The Lessons Of 9/11

By JOANNE BUTLER Twenty years ago, I stood on Capitol Hill and watched as a plume of black smoke surged from the west side of the Pentagon. That’s when the 9/11 attack became real for me. But is it no longer real for those who have no memory of the event, or lived far from Washington, D.C., or New York City?In 2001, I was working for the U.S. House of Representatives in a House office building. The office televisions were showing repeatedly the attack on New York City’s Twin Towers. My brain, in coping with the horror, made the images seem like a monster movie. But there was no King Kong.Minutes later, the Capitol Police told everyone in the building…Continue Reading

Book Review Of The Odyssey Of Love

September 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Book Review Of The Odyssey Of Love

By JIM M. VALOIS Paul Krause has written a detailed analysis of the Great Books because the humanities are more important than many academics would have us believe. Krause points out the goal that “the study of things human would awaken the mind and move it to seek after the good, the true, and the beautiful” (page xiv). The author contends that sacrificial love runs through the Great Books like life-blood runs through our veins and makes an immense contribution to the body of mankind’s knowledge. And this is the knowledge that truly moves man to heroic, selfless and noble acts rooted in sacrificial love.This collection of essays is written in the context of cancel culture. Many of the new…Continue Reading

U.S. Bishop Chairmen . . . Denounce Abortion Funding In Build Back Better Act

September 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Bishop Chairmen . . . Denounce Abortion Funding In Build Back Better Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Committee on Ways and Means, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 15 advanced portions of the reconciliation bill without removing abortion funding provisions or including the Hyde Amendment to prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion.Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, issued the following statement following markup of the Build Back Better Act by the two House committees:“Catholic bishops have been strong advocates for proposals at both the federal and state level that ensure all people will have…Continue Reading

The Korean Martyrs . . . A Hard Road To A Thriving Church

August 31, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Korean Martyrs . . . A Hard Road To A Thriving Church

By RAY CAVANAUGH South Korea has become one of the Church’s biggest success stories in the Far East, but such success came amid much peril. For an extended period of time, Catholicism was punishable by death.Between the late-eighteenth and late-nineteenth centuries, about 10,000 persons, most of them native Koreans, died violently for their Catholic beliefs. Of this group, 103 martyrs received canonization en masse during Pope John Paul II’s 1984 visit to the South Korean capital of Seoul. Their feast day is September 20.Catholicism came to the Korean peninsula via China and Japan, and as the eighteenth century progressed, the faith had gained enough momentum in Korea that the reigning Joseon Dynasty (Korea was formerly known as the “Kingdom of…Continue Reading

How The 9/11 Terrorists Got Here

August 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on How The 9/11 Terrorists Got Here

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The commercial aircraft that al-Qaeda terrorists flew into the twin towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001 — killing 2,977 people — did not take off from some foreign land before flying toward targets here in the United States.They were all domestic flights that took off from American cities and were headed toward American cities.American Airlines Flight 11, which struck the north tower of the World Trade Center, took off from Boston and was heading to Los Angeles.United Airlines Flight 175, which struck the south tower of the World Trade Center, also took off from Boston and was heading to Los Angeles.American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon, took off…Continue Reading

Know Thyself

August 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Know Thyself

By DONALD DeMARCO Virtues are the qualities which enable us to know who we are and what we need. They are akin to anti-viruses that counteract the seven deadly sins. Humility checks pride, unselfishness resists envy, patience counteracts anger, chastity defeats lust, love frustrates sloth, temperance curbs gluttony, and generosity keeps avarice at bay. They provide health to our moral immune system. Vices are our ruination.In our materialistic society, avarice is particularly rampant. The National Basketball League provides us with a window that allows us to observe this deadly and embarrassing vice. In the year 2020, one NBA player, who has no claim to superstardom, rejected a contract that would have paid him $114 M for four years. He was…Continue Reading

The Bitter Fruits Of Interventionism

August 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Bitter Fruits Of Interventionism

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan.Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a CBS poll found that Americans, while still approving of President Joe Biden’s decision to get us out of this “forever war,” were stunned by how badly botched the withdrawal was being executed.By 75-25, Americans believe the withdrawal is going badly. And those who believe it has gone “very badly” outnumber by 9-1 those who believe it has gone “very well.”Biden’s own approval rating has plummeted to 50…Continue Reading