Beautiful!

Save Hugh's comments for the campaign.  It contains a rubric for scoring the debates the right and effective way.

Well, it's not...

...like we've been doing NOTHING during these times.  Really, I think the revolution has been going pretty strong.  However, word needs to get out that the Church IS really a vibrant intellectual community in this nation and around the world.

The ten most underreported studies from 2010 | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The ten most underreported studies from 2010 | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

What are the odds?

Which is more likely?

----->We're being visited by ET's.

----->The reality of ghosts, the post-dead.

Stresses

When the history of these times is written, we may become aware of how close our republic has come to tyranny--the usurpation of private rights and dignities in favor of state manipulation.  The obsessive adherence of the current majority--may their hegemony be brief!--to the tools of bureaucracy, propaganda and economic disruption creates a pseudo-justification for an ultimately thuggish totalitarianism that cannot be sated.  I'm sure there are some in places of influence who work as the engineers of this process in the name of progressive, scientific humanitarianism.  What we see is the work of their amateurish, clumsy, uncentered, uncritical and often unwitting minions.  And seeing that is a good thing, for this insidious will to power must betray itself by its own contradictions.

Now this is another piece of the puzzle

Remnants of a pre-Islamic monastery have been discovered in U.A.E.  It appears that for at least a time it existed contemporaneously with the nascent Islamic communities in the region.  This is very valuable for those who are concerned with periods of religious co-existence, when they occur.

As a Teacher, I like this...

...and as a parent, even better.
Dennis Prager on Self Esteem and Character.

Is Illegal Immigration Moral? - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online

Is Illegal Immigration Moral? - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online

Dr. Hanson raises uncomfortable questions. The conventional answers fly to extreme and false caricatures of the issue, and so avoid harsh truths. We should be able to do better than the go-nowhere dichotomy of justice vs compassion.

Rubio-ism

Courtesy, NR online:



His thank-you message:

OK, so, is Oddness a theme?

Or is there some other name for the quality of a person, place, thing or piece of art (including literature) that has that very special stamp of the divine recognizable universally to believers.  I say "person" because there are people who have this imprint--the saints, for example.  Many of the saints were encountered as "different" during their earthly lives--sometimes bearing a stamp of "be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect," and at other times bearing a mark or seal of genuine strangeness or eccentricity.  One would need to pursue testimonies along this line.