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Why our Civilization could fall to Islamists
Historian Niall Ferguson does not look away from the weakness being exploited by *Islamists: I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
Tagged Douglas Murray, Islamists, Maajid Nawaz, Niall Ferguson, Terrorism
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Pope Francis denies the dignity of the Cuban dissident
Just when you thought this Papal visit couldn’t get any more dispiriting to Cuban dissidents, it did. The following questions were asked of Pope Francis on his plane trip leaving Cuba: Rosa Flores, CNN: We understand that more than 50 … Continue reading
The Pope? How many additional Parishes does he want?
Stalin famously mocked the moral authority of the Catholic Church by asking “how many divisions” the Pope had. Perhaps he should have just sarcastically inquired as to how many safeguarded Parishes would be required to have them look the other … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Faith & Inspiration
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Joan had the Dauphin, we got Francis
Did you hear the one about the Papal encyclical whose subject matter was only on the radar of the enemies of the Church, while ignoring the rising level of violence against Christians residing in the Muslim world as the centuries-old … Continue reading
Christians on the rack, Brooks on the couch
David Brooks on ISIS: The ISIS atrocities have descended like distant nightmares upon the numbed conscious of the world. The first beheadings of Americans had the power to shock, but since then there has been a steady barrage of inhumanity: … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs & History
Tagged Clay Davis, David Brooks, ISIS, Islamists, The Wire, Tyler Cowen
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The Schilling effect
Curt Schilling got in trouble with his employer [ESPN] for tweeting a comparison of the number of Muslim extremists that might exist today vs the number of Nazis in 1940. [May I suggest Stalin or Pol Pot for future attempts … Continue reading
Jorge Ramos: Small man with even smaller ideas
Originally posted on 2 Think Good:
Univision network’s diminutive anchorman, Jorge Ramos, has pointed his cannon at John Paul II and the Catholic Church. Fortunately for us Catholics, his is a short cannon with limp arguments as I will detail. First…
Posted in Current Affairs & History
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MLS stadiums – facts vs emerging conventional wisdom
I was thrilled to hear that the Beckham-Claure group finally acknowledged that the location next to Marlins Park was the most feasible for their potential new MLS franchise. In listening to sports talk radio over the last few days, a … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged David Beckham, Houston Dynamo, Marcelo Claure, MLS, Montreal Impact, Orlando City FC, San Jose Earthquakes
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Wade opts out, but its McRoberts who will go
All this grief because the guy with the hairline to the right was too embarrassed to walk around in the bright Miami sun after cosmetic surgery. Oy vey. Heat Hoops is a great resource for us Heat fans. His recent … Continue reading
Posted in Miami Heat
Tagged Albert Nahmad, Birdman, Brendan Haywood, Chris Anderson, Dwyane Wade, Heat Hoops, Josh McRoberts, Mikey Arison, Mikhail Prokhorov, Pat Riley
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People of faith deserve to be remembered by people of faith
Update on June 27th: It was not hard to see a secular spin coming in this tragedy, but the push back from the black Christian community has been inspiring. Michael Wear in Christianity Today is tired of people attempting to … Continue reading