Category: Government & Politics

What’s Wrong with This Picture?
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?

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by on Feb 20, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Leadership, On Media
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A very conscientious Catholic, Harold Baumeister, saw this cartoon in his hometown paper and had the conviction and gumption to do something about it! He wrote to the editor (letter follows) to let him know that he was deeply offended by this crass cartoon and that the pope and all Catholics will fight to defend our freedoms. […]

Knights of Columbus Battle Abortion Insurance Mandate of Wash. State
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Knights of Columbus Battle Abortion Insurance Mandate of Wash. State

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by on Feb 20, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Life Issues & Bioethics
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  Need a little dose of humility?  Try testifying before a legislative committee in Olympia, Washington chaired by condescending Senator, Karen Keiser.  Want to be humbled?  Get reprimanded by this same pro-abortion Senator calling herself a Lutheran Christian, who co-sponsored the redefinition of marriage bill, and who has been homesteading in the legislature for 16 […]

Obama's Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists
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Obama’s Catholic Church Gambit: Lessons from American Communists

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by on Feb 17, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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A fascinating theory has been advanced by Dick Morris, which, in turn, is being considered by Rush Limbaugh and other leading conservatives.  Morris speculates that the Obama HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients is a fight with the Catholic Church that Team Obama wants — and with the focus based narrowly on contraception, not […]

Hollow Compromise on Contraception Mandate
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Hollow Compromise on Contraception Mandate

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by on Feb 17, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Give Barack Obama credit: The man has chutzpah. How else do you describe a president who uses his executive authority to unilaterally manufacture a government mandate for contraception coverage — a mandate with no conscience protection for the vast majority of religious institutions to which it applies — and then, when confronted with bipartisan backlash, […]

Obama’s Anti-Religious Implosion
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Obama’s Anti-Religious Implosion

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by on Feb 16, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up. They’ve picked it up. From running […]

<em>Frack Nation</em> Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth
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Frack Nation Digs Up the Not-So-Scary Truth

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by on Feb 16, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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When it comes to 21st-century environmental and energy debates, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Especially when what little knowledge you may have is incorrect. And most especially when could be a lie. That’s the conclusion of documentary filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, who are on a quest to shed some light – […]

What If We Removed Wartime Conscience Exemptions?
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What If We Removed Wartime Conscience Exemptions?

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by on Feb 16, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Last Friday, President Obama responded to Catholic bishops’ concerns over his controversial mandate compelling Catholic institutions to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. Many media sources reported Obama’s action as an “accommodation,” with some describing it as a “reversal.” It is hardly that. Many Catholics find it arguably worse. Without dissecting the president’s action, the […]

History Lessons -- Embarrassing yet Valuable
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History Lessons — Embarrassing yet Valuable

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by on Feb 15, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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When asked to comment on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ rejection of the so-called HHS “accommodation,” White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said, “I would simply note with regard to the bishops that they never supported healthcare reform to begin with.” Apparently, either Mr. Carney’s memory is failing or his trousers are ablaze. […]

Strategic Abdication
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Strategic Abdication

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by on Feb 15, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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From Damascus to Tehran, a test for world leadership is underway. Daily, the Syrian military—well-armed, highly trained thugs whose current mission is to keep dictator Bashar Assad in power—kills up to 200 or more of its own citizens. Protests from Washington, the withdrawal of the U.S. ambassador, and an effort to condemn Syria in the […]

Obama and Ann Coulter Think They Have the Election Figured Out -- They Don't
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Obama and Ann Coulter Think They Have the Election Figured Out — They Don’t

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by on Feb 14, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Ann Coulter was on The Sean Hannity Show with guest host Mark Simone today. She bragged about Romney, her candidate, winning the CPAC Straw Poll, and how she swayed the crowd. She pointed out the weaknesses of Rick Santorum in a recent interview with Chris Wallace: He always gets nervous about providing a sound bite that […]

God and Man at CPAC: Facing the 2012 Election
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God and Man at CPAC: Facing the 2012 Election

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by on Feb 13, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Amidst the hoopla, cheers, and ear-piercing whistles of enthusiastic approval for Republican presidential nominees at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, several themes emerged. The most important of these centered on the conflict between what may be titled American foundationalism versus contemporary progressivism. Foundationalism embodies a family of concepts ordered hierarchically from God, the Declaration […]

Bishops Reject Obama's 'Accommodation'
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Bishops Reject Obama’s ‘Accommodation’

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by on Feb 13, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The American bishops have, with alacrity, rejected President Obama’s proposed “accommodation” on the contraception mandate in no uncertain terms. Their response came before the sun had set on the very day of his announcement. Noting that the “proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of […]

Obama the Groper: Get Your Hands Off Our Rights!
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Obama the Groper: Get Your Hands Off Our Rights!

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by on Feb 11, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The newspeak and apologetics of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came straight out of George Orwell’s 1984.  After pretending that President Obama allegedly reversed his mandate (his mandate that persons of good will should be forced to pay for abortifacients, sterilizations, and contraceptives), newspeak Kathy explained: “The President reached-out to religious groups.”  It seems this Barack […]

Obama Rule
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Obama Rule

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by on Feb 08, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The latest attack on constitutional rights by Obama administration is a requirement that forces employers to purchase health insurance coverage for their employees that includes contraceptive drugs and abortifiacients. As a finger in the eye of the Catholic Church and other religious groups opposed to contraception and abortion, and with a least a figurative smirk […]

Blame the UN's Power on George H.W. Bush
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Blame the UN’s Power on George H.W. Bush

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by on Feb 08, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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If Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on the world, George H. W. Bush was responsible for its revival as a political force. From about 1950 to 1990, the United Nations Security Council was essentially toothless, as the Soviet and U.S. governments disagreed on issue after […]

Despite Economic and Social Ills, Blacks Give Obama a Pass
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Despite Economic and Social Ills, Blacks Give Obama a Pass

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by on Feb 07, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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With the celebration of Black History Month we are reminded of the historic presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president. Some black leaders, however, believe that Mr. Obama has let the black community down. For example, prominent voices like Dr. Cornell West and PBS’s Tavis Smiley, former supporters of Obama, believe that having […]

Caesar Overreaching Once Again
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Caesar Overreaching Once Again

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by on Feb 07, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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What do political pundits Peggy Noonan, Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Mark Shields have in common? Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, is Catholic. Matthews and Dionne claim to be loyal but dissident Catholics at least on matters such as contraception (Dionne) and public policy on abortion (Matthews). Mark Shields, another Catholic, is […]

Jihad: When Elections Fail
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Jihad: When Elections Fail

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by on Feb 07, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: “I don’t have any problem with that [an “Islamist victory” in Egypt], and the U.S. government doesn’t have any problem with that either. […]

Dot-Gov Has It All to Help Americans Do Better
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Dot-Gov Has It All to Help Americans Do Better

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by on Feb 03, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, The Social Order
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Last week in his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed to share President Lincoln’s opinion “that government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.” I thought about that today while running errands and noticing that virtually every billboard in my town directs citizens to federal […]

The Obama Mandate to Catholics: "To Hell With You?"
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The Obama Mandate to Catholics: “To Hell With You?”

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by on Feb 01, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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America’s Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They’re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe—like, say, eternity. They tend not to have knee-jerk reactions to issues of the moment. And so, it’s not often when a paragon of decorum, namely, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik, publishes […]

The State of the Union: An Inside Report
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The State of the Union: An Inside Report

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by on Jan 27, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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On Tuesday evening, I had the honor of attending the State of the Union address as the guest of Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-03). Here are my impressions in abbreviated form: The address seemed more like a rewrite of previous speeches than an original work. Sure, there were new anecdotes and fresh twists on old policy […]

Raking Fire on the Stern: The GOP's Kaleidoscopic Primary Gets Serious
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Raking Fire on the Stern: The GOP’s Kaleidoscopic Primary Gets Serious

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by on Jan 27, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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While reading a tale of adventure and combat on the high seas, say a novel by Patrick O’Brian or C.S. Forester, I can recall a vivid description of two ships of the line, engaged in a deadly duel, in which one of the vessels manages to inflict a particularly crushing fusillade on its opponent, described in a […]

Storming Heaven with Rosaries: Prayer Crusade for the 2012 Presidential Election
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Storming Heaven with Rosaries: Prayer Crusade for the 2012 Presidential Election

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by on Jan 24, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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“People ask me, ‘What will convert America and save the world?’ My answer is prayer.”–Blessed (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta The battle is on… got your weapon? It’s no secret that our beloved country is entrenched in an intense struggle. It’s a war between the culture of life and the culture of death; between economic stability […]

Quintessential Moral Relativism
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Quintessential Moral Relativism

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by on Jan 21, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich’s comments during the Presidential Republican debate on January 19, 2012 and the audience’s reaction are telling, and saddening. An angry Newt Gingrich criticized the media at the start of tonight’s Republican presidential debate for focusing on questions about his personal life, including allegations that he asked for an “open marriage” […]