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This recent move by Pope Francis concerns me. Since Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope, much has been written about his leftist leanings. His writings have indicated that he is open to relaxing some Church strictures on marriage (in favor of Communion for divorced or cohabiting people) and homosexuality (playing down the strictures against homosexual behavior). …
I received an email from a colleague at work today. It seems that Friday is one of our other employees' birthday, which happens to coincide with "World Hello Day". I had never heard of the November 21 "special day", but I had to read all the way down to the bottom of the email chain …
In London, commemorating WWI: In Washington DC, commemorating Viet Nam: A big Thank You to All Who Served, and Who Serve.
Edit: Thanks to GOPUSA for the cartoon 1. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". 2. "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". 3. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". 4. "We don't have a strategy yet". Which Commander in …
Continue reading Which of These Presidential Statements Doesn’t Belong?
They attend their morning prayers, and then go out behind the mosque and... In my not-so-humble opinion, Islam is EVIL, and must be destroyed.
This story is posted on Ricochet, by a new member who is a Swedish Jew. It tells the sorry tale of her and her children's systematic persecution by others in her (formerly) civilized country. Remember when Sweden's society was emulated as an example of a country where all were treated equally and fairly, the standard of …
Right now, I am reading a wonderful book by Daniel Silva, one of my favorite authors. It's a thriller starring his Israeli spy, Gabriel Allon, and involves the theft of one painting, in the service of finding another famous painting by an Italian Old Master painter. One of the villains is the terrorist dictator of …
Here is the link to an essay by Ricochet Contributor Judith Levy. She is in Israel, where rockets rain down on her family and friends daily. If you can read this without weeping, you have no heart. And if you can read this without getting very, very angry, you have no soul. I am sitting …
Read this, from today's Jerusalem Post. You may be shocked, but I'm not. Author Caroline Glick tells it like it is. Here are the salient points: OTL supports Hamas in its crusade to obliterate the state of Israel from the face of the Earth. Kerry's "truce" proposal would have given Hamas everything it wants. The …
My hero, Rush Limbaugh, likes to point out that, through much of human history, the natural order of things in our world has been tyranny and misery. Since humans started to live in groups, the vast majority of people have led lives that were "nasty, brutish, and short". Until very recently, human life-expectancy has been …
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