Protest is a form of education

Over the last several months, I have learned that if I write a pro-life post that mentions protesting and/or political action as part of the process, someone will write me a comment to insist that we should really just pray and work quietly at the local crisis pregnancy center.  Several years ago, after sending around [...]

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How to host a large holiday gathering

Ok, Thanksgiving is over.  In true ex-Navy fashion, it is now time for the “lessons learned” discussion.
Did you have a bunch of relatives over for Thanksgiving?  Did it go smoothly?  Did something get burnt?  Did you get to the end of the meal and suddenly realize that you’d completely forgotten to make your mother-in-law’s favorite [...]

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Look to the stars

My apologies to my regular readers; I have been remiss in blogging lately.  I have not been too thrilled about the state of the world after the election, and I have been, frankly, cocooning.  As in burying myself in gardening and house cleaning type chores, with some early Christmas decorating thrown in on the excuse [...]

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Why Isn’t the Supreme Court More Conservative?

A friend who reads my blog asked a question that I thought was very pertinent.  And then I spent time researching and answering the question, so I figured it would make a good post.  Rick’s last reply suggested that someone should send Joe Biden a copy of Archbishop Chaput’s new book on Catholics in politics, [...]

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What are we aiming for?

I read several things the other night that really made me wonder: what are we aiming for?
One was a submission to a weekly digest of Catholic blog posts.  In it, the author bemoaned the difficulites of standing up to the parish hierarchy when they “drew a line in the sand” over… something.  Apparently, she didn’t [...]

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Who, me? *smirk*

I loved this article from Lifenews.com.  Sure, we’ll take your money, because the law requires it, but we’re going to do something with that money that you’d hate.
Sort of reminds me of something I read in a book about Tudor women.  Under the laws at that time, women did not own any property if they were married; [...]

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Told you so…

Generally, when pro-abortion agendas are pushed, there is this unctuous insistence that, “Oh, no, we won’t go there,” wherever “there” is in the given instance.  Social and religious conservatives are mocked for being alarmist.  Too often, they turn out to be prophetic.
“Contraception isn’t for genocide or population engineering by government.”
“We will still respect the less-than-perfect, [...]

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Big Government and the Media

Sorry, I was out of town for a wedding, and my stupid Vista computer refused to associate with the hotel wi-fi.  Thus, no posts.  Besides, it looks like everyone is slowing down after the election.  So, in lieu of a real post (and, to my former boss, yes, I know that’s French, and no, it [...]

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Moving forward for LIFE

So, last night I sat and did a puzzle. 
For four hours.
My brain is pretty well toasted.
I’m usually pretty enthusiastic about politics, but between the Navy (can’t really be active in politics, especially as an officer, for concern of unduly influencing or intimidating subordinates (or any appearance thereof)) and small children, I hadn’t actively gotten involved [...]

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The election is over, and the children lost

If we deny the right to exist to the poorest among us, the unborn, with not even a thread of clothing to call their own…
then how will we respect the poor we can see?
If we allow the murder of unborn children “too likely” to grow up uneducated…
then how will we fix schools?
If babies can be aborted for being not perfect [...]

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