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- In Search of Catholic "To Kill a Mockingbird" (4)
Nathan Hutchinson: "Great suggestions, everybody! Thanks a lot. I am especially intrigued by Scott Hahn's "Rome Sweet Home" and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, neither…"
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Funky Dung: "The fiction and non-fiction of G.K. Chesterton might be a good start if she liked C.S. Lewis.…"
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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
— Winston Churchill
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Steal this Idea
A story in the San Francisco Chronicle quotes "Emily Solomon, 45, a Washington, D.C., playwright and Pennsylvania native":
[The news media] completely downplayed the first serious female candidacy. When she won New Hampshire, it wasn't, 'The first woman to win New Hampshire,' it was 'Clinton steals New Hampshire.' Very subtle sexism, you know. And I'm not even […]
This is What is Wrong with America
We have immigration policies that, when enacted into law and enforced by the government, come to results that are not just absurd, but which ought to shock the conscience:
[Arthur] Mkoyan, who has a grade-point average above 4.0—extra credit for Advanced Placement classes makes that possible—is set to graduate next week from Bullard High School in […]
An Apparent Failure of Logic
About Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein says:
"Each one of them represents a different constituency, and the constituencies are knocking heads at the present time. . . . There are women all over the country, and particularly in my state of California, who feel that she hasn't been treated fairly. . . . They want […]
Backwards Bernanke
Just when I thought Ben Bernanke couldn't be more of a putz…
"The dollar surged on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned the weak U.S. currency posed a risk to inflation, adding to views the central bank could raise interest rates later this year."
Say what?! I'm not economics expert, but last I checked the […]
The State Should Get Out of the Marriage Business
Oh dear. Bush apologist, McCain supporter, and former senator Rick Santorum has offered his addlepated opinion on the recent gay marriage ruling in California (Fedora Tip: 2 Political Junkies. He says:
"…The state Supreme Court there ruled, 4-3, that same-sex couples can marry. In doing so, four judges rejected a statute that passed in a referendum […]
