Today, September 28, Catholics commemorate the life of Saint Wenceslaus: St. Wenceslaus (907–935 A.D.) was the son of the Duke of Bohemia. His grandfather was converted to Christianity by the missionaries Sts. Cyril and Methodius. His mother, Dragomir, was the daughter of a pagan tribal chief who was baptized at her marriage. After …
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Sep 27 2023
A Good And Worthy Metamorphosis
Tucker Carlson, since leaving Fox News, has become one of American conservatism’s brightest lights. Consider his recent statement on abortion: Carlson noted that human sacrifice, ritual child sacrifice in particular, “rears its head about every four chapters. … Of all the sins the ancients committed, that sin, every single time it’s described, is …
Sep 24 2023
The Giveaway Headline
Sometimes, you really don’t need to read any further: Late-Term Abortion: A Complex Moral Debate in America Among the most regular of motifs one can find in the contest over abortion is the contention that it’s “complex.” “A complex subject.” “A complex debate.” “Legally complex.” And each of those formulations has at least …
May 13 2023
Compare And Contrast
This graphic is so penetrating that I’ll let it stand alone: Pass it around.
Apr 23 2023
Horse Latitudes
[The following was first posted in September of 2003, at the old Palace of Reason. It appears as it did then, with one correction. Back then the subject of abortion was as contentious as it is today, owing to the election of a sincerely pro-life president. That always upsets the pro-abortion forces. The overturning …
Apr 22 2023
The Follies Of Experts
Your Curmudgeon is coming to believe that “experts” and the relentless promotion thereof exist solely to reinforce “official” BS and intimidate those who see through it. Perhaps he’s even a bit late to the party, as that seems to be a burgeoning recognition among Americans generally. Nevertheless, it’s a notion that deserves some exploration, …
Apr 16 2023
Death Cult Chronicles: The Cleverness Front
In a recent exchange of views with a cleverer-than-usual pro-abortion person, I posited that abortion is morally wrong because a human embryo is human. It contains human DNA distinct from that of its mother and, if not interfered with, in the normal course of events will become so recognizably human that no one would …
Feb 21 2023
South Park Scores!
In one minute and 25 seconds, @SouthPark said all the things we aren’t allowed to say about trans “women” and abortions.#trans #abortion #women #biologicalwomen #SouthPark pic.twitter.com/qArc0zjZqL — Natalie Argyle (@NatalieArgyle) February 2, 2023 And it’s from 2005! ‘Nuff said.
Feb 09 2023
This Is Mind-Boggling
How are American Catholics under attack? Let me count the ways: The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the FBI released in …
Jan 31 2023
As Long As The Subject Is Abortion
There has been some good news: Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck on Monday was found NOT GUILTY on both counts of federal charges. Mark Houck was charged with two counts of violating the federal FACE Act for shoving a pro-abortion volunteer who threatened his son outside of Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia in …
Jan 31 2023
One In The Eye For The Feminists
If you’re a “feminist,” it would logically follow that you favor the protection of women, wouldn’t it? If so, the information in this article “should” upset you: 100 Percent Fed Up reports – Did you know that between 1970 and 2017, there were 45 million “missing” female births due to prenatal sex selection? …
Jan 24 2023
There Are Days I Wish I Were A Journalist
…especially one who conducts interviews with politicians: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) blamed the overturning of Roe v. Wade for the Republican party’s lackluster midterm showing during a recent appearance on Meet the Press. “It’s the reason we didn’t get more of a majority. We could have had a two dozen seat majority, …
Jan 20 2023
A Giant Mound Of Infant Corpses
I know of no way to verify this, but I tend to trust the source: [T]hough all such numbers are a bit uncertain, roughly 55 million people die, globally, every year. And numerous public health organizations intensely scrutinize the slightest increase or decrease in mortality, in a laudable effort to identify what factors …
Sep 27 2022
Who Is For Life?
Some are; some aren’t. The pro-abortion crowd wants to turn as many as possible from the former to the latter. The current trend in the opposite direction has them somewhat mystified. Today, The Catholic Thing headlines a column on a painful subject: “Medically futile pregnancies” is the euphemism for children destined to …
Sep 26 2022
The Breaking Storm
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Law Winston Churchill’s treatment of World War II included a volume on the antecedents to the war titled The Gathering Storm. It was an appropriate title for an account of those years, as the follies of the …
Sep 24 2022
When Tyranny Is No Longer In Dispute
…it can still surprise onlookers with its boldness: Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men, which promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the United States and Europe. According to his wife Ryan-Marie, who spoke with LifeSiteNews, he also drives two …
Sep 15 2022
A Little Death
[The following essay first appeared at the Palace of Reason on July 19, 2004. It’s also included in my volume The Death Cults: The Drive for Human Extinction. Given what I’ve been reading, and its implications for the perversion of federal law to “protect” the “right” to abortion even in the third trimester of …
Jul 11 2022
The War On Compassion
There have been quite a few “war on” initiatives popularized by the statists of our formerly free nation. I’m sure you can name a few names without straining: “War on Drugs,” “War on Poverty,” and “War on Terror” practically leap to mind. Note that in each of those cases, “war” is being declared against …
Jul 01 2022
The Dollars-and-Cents Of Abortion
First, snippets from two excellent novels: “The women’s rights movement had three goals. First, it got women into the workplace where their labor could be taxed….So, with more women entering the workforce the supply of labor increases and wages are depressed…. “Now couples need to have two careers to support a typical …
Jun 26 2022
Distortions And Evasions
My responsibilities to my Gentle Readers are more extensive than you might imagine. Yes, I’m here to provide analysis and commentary. Yes, I’m here to dissect the statements of others who don’t always express themselves clearly. But alongside those duties, I’m also here to pull the wool off your eyes – to tell you, …
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