A reader of mine wants to squash what he perceives as vicious lies concocted by "Bushies". To that end, here's the Snopes article on John Kerry's "fishy" medals. Snopes is a nonpartisan site whose purpose is to stop the circulation of urban legends and other misinformation.
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Today I watched a beautiful Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy in which my friend, and occasional cohort in blogging crime, Jerry Nora, entered into the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. I wish him and his wife, Krystia, all the happiness in the world. May God bless them with a marriage that sanctifies them, unifies them, and provides them with many children.
Due to in part to this blessed event, I have a mildly polemical point to make. Continue reading
"I want a government as good and as honest and as decent and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." – Jimmy Carter
It's too bad we're unlikely to find it in either major party.
Dr. Philip Blosser has an excellent post on Jimmy Carter's fall from admirable idealist to lapdog. It's a shame that a good man can't be a good president. It's a greater shame that the same good man lowers himself to supporting those whose beliefs directly contradict his faith.
Kudos to Joe Carter for doing his part to spread the truth about the “Galileo
Affair“.
This is a story about Galileo Galilei. It’s not the story about an enlightened scientist being persecuted by a narrow-minded Catholic Church because that story is (mostly) a myth. It’s not a story about a great scientific genius either, though he was that (mainly). It’s also not a story about someone being reincarnated with the soul of the old astronomer like the song by the Indigo Girls that, for a few weeks in ’92, I thought was (almost) profound. (And I should point out that it not an original story but one that cribbed together from other sources.)
But like all good stories this one provides a (mostly) valuable lesson.
I think it’s ridiculous when PETA tries to get street and town names changed, but at least they don’t bring constitutional law into it. I hope nobody is anal retentive enough to insist on name changes for cities with religious connections to their names. The number of names to be changed boggles the mind. They go well beyond "San" this and "Santa" that. What would happen to Bethlehem, PA, for instance?
L.A.’s name too divine?
‘Angels’ reference may mean trouble
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
"No L.A.? It’s no joke. A strong legal argument can be made that the name of the city of Los Angeles — even worse its formal name, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion" — violates the constitutional requirement for separation of church and state."
Los Angeles name too godly for U.S.?
Some constitutional experts think reference to ‘angels’ spells trouble
The city of Los Angeles may have to change its name.