The University of Toledo, a government-run college in Ohio, recently fired Crystal Dixon, associate vice president for human resources, after she wrote a guest column in the Toledo Free Press, in response to an earlier column decrying the state of homosexual rights in Ohio.
This isn’t terribly surprising, as it is pretty well established that there […]

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It has always been a bit puzzling that there was no Latin version of the Vatican website available. That has now been remedied, at least partly. Now you can click on “Sancta Sedes” to get to a Latin “mini-site,” which contains a good number of Church documents in Latin.
Hopefully, they will work on bringing the […]

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The GOP primary process is largely over, and months before many Republican voters have an opportunity to cast their votes, John McCain has essentially been crowned the nominee. This is not the beginning of an unraveling of the conservative movement; it is more the culmination of many years of philosophical neglect.
We have heard many conservatives […]

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The Rockefeller Republicans are celebrating today. They have had their revenge, long in coming.
While John McCain was not their first choice (that would be Rudy Giuilani), he’ll do. He supports enough of the moderate wing’s agenda to be satisfactory. McCain’s chief qualification is that conservatives dislike him.
This is shaping up to be an unusual war; […]

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Regardless of what the “experts” in the media are saying, it is still early in the presidential nomination process. However, perceptions can be hard to reverse, and the MSM are now beginning to spin a three-point John McCain victory in South Carolina as momentum-building.
I understand the need for a willingness to compromise at times, but […]

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View this from a distant perspective, if you will:
Imagine a scenario where America is deeply divided over the invasion and occupation of a foreign land. American armed forces find themselves in a guerrilla war, fighting insurgents. Congress finds itself without strong leadership, and legislative strategies are used to try to hamper support for the […]

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I kind of drifted away from blogging over the past year, but I think I will give it another try.
This time, it will be a bit different. Traditional Catholic topics will still be included, but there will be other stuff as well. Politics, NASCAR, tech…pretty much whatever I feel like blogging about.
The old blog is […]

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