Discussion in Hollywood

And, no, I certainly do not mean the week of “volunteerism”-oriented programming.  (or the related spate of comic strips on “volunteerism”)
I’m not into the crime or courtroom dramas, so I didn’t see this when it came out.  My husband watched it online after getting an e-mail from Priests for Life encouraging everyone to check it [...]

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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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Hope for Journalism

After a nauseating campaign season full of fawning adoration and “thrills up my leg” from almost every major news outlet except Fox (which is now killing the other news channels in the ratings), you would have ample reason to sigh, “That’s it.  Really this time.  Journalism is dead.”
That tough, junkyard dog, snarling up the tree [...]

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Wiggle Room in the Health Care Bill

The problem with DVR’s is that you wind up watching live shows from Friday night on Sunday night.  Oh, well.
The World Over, EWTN’s weekly news program, had several people discussing the health care bill.  Thankfully, several Catholic groups that had seemed to support the bill currently being discussed have come out, clearly stating that they [...]

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Brain Tumors, Right and Left

Robert Novak died last week of a brain tumor.  Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday of a brain tumor.
CNN spent about the same amount of space on Novak’s involvement in the Valerie Plame case as it spent on Kennedy’s accident in Chappaquiddick.
Plame, I would note, survived without injury.
Kennedy’s car passenger died; CNN gave Kennedy’s version (about trying [...]

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Feel safer yet?

“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.”
John Holdren, U.S. Science Czar (quoted on Glenn Beck tonight)
Pro-lifers have been saying it until they’re blue in the face: if [...]

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Abortion and Wormwood

I do not read the book of Revelation often.  Except for the overarching, “This world will end, God wins,” it is a notoriously difficult book to interpret.  In a discussion the other night, part of it came up:
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and [...]

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Albigensian Heresy Returns With a Vengeance

Over the centuries, many people have noted that there are no new ideas.  Even our sins, which we vainly imagine are ours or are somehow new and creative, are only endless repeats.  Truth is endless in variety, but heresy continues to repeat.
A Protestant friend was struggling with the Trinity, which some more-sola-scriptura-than-thou type had pointed [...]

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Media bias? You think?

Like many papers, my local paper is always good for tweaking conservatives’ levels of disgust.
Inside the front section, there was a very small article about the shooting at the Army recruiting center in Arkansas.  Police do not consider that there is any chance of this being part of a conspiracy, the article assured us soothingly.  [...]

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