Finally back!

Well, I’ve been in and out of the blogosphere lately (mostly out or just lurking briefly), but I am finally officially back.  The move from you-know-where is half over; the second half comes when my in-laws rent a mobile home somewhere and we get to move everything out of the storage units and into the [...]

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A bit of Founding Father wisdom

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
- James Madison (1751-1836), American statesman and fourth President of the United States of America.
This was the [...]

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Hitler and Mao

In case you haven’t heard, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn was caught on tape giving a high school commencement speech praising Mao as a wonderful political thinker.  Specifically, she said:
… the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa– not often coupled with [...]

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The Abortion-Vaccine Link

Dear Politicalhousewyfe,
I wonder what your thoughts are on childhood vaccinations, mainly those that contain fetal cell lines. We have recently discovered this horror and are endeavoring to try to find alternative vaccines that are ethical, to date there are none for the MMR and Hep A. Our Parish Priest, who belongs to the FSSP advised [...]

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The Pen

“There are perticular times when I feel such an uneasiness, such a restlessness, as neither Company, Books, family Cares or any other thing will remove, my Pen is my only pleasure.”
- Abigail Adams
 
I’ll agree with her, especially right now, when my fingers are one of the few muscles that don’t ache.  (No, Tricia, I have [...]

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Our Lady of Victory

Ok, well, the official title for the feast day is “Our Lady of the Rosary”, but it was Our Lady of Victory first.
On Oct. 7, 1571, an outnumbered Catholic fleet faced off against the Ottoman Navy.  The forces of Christendom were plagued by infighting, including the fact that many monarchs refused to send any help [...]

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People in glass houses…

Specifically, this has to do with accusations of “lack of research”.  (No, not against me; I’ve been gone too much lately to have garnered many of those complaints recently.  Plus, I usually cite my research.)
I used to find columnist Leonard Pitts interesting, if sometimes directly at odds with how I view the world.  He was [...]

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Happy Moon Festival!

Today is/was the Chinese holiday of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.
In Western cultures, we usually see the “man in the moon”, but the Chinese see the Jade Rabbit, pounding a mortar and pestle to make the pill of immortality.  (If you still see the man, look at the right eye (your right side as you’re looking at [...]

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Huh?

Hey, look, it’s October… when the heck did that happen?
Wait, what do you mean, “Two days ago”?!?
Ugh.
I’m not dead.  Not yet, at least.  The giant, OMG, must-make-money rummage sale for my in-laws is next weekend.  I don’t even want to think about it anymore.  They’re trying to schedule a charity truck to come pick up whatever [...]

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