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Monday, October 9, 2017
What Made This Hurricane Season So Active in the Atlantic?
What a hurricane season! It started very early with Arlene in April but the real action held off until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana.
An Example in Fatima
In his first hours into a pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Bishop David O’Connell, born in Ireland and serving in Los Angeles, told the story of his recent trip to Honduras.
The Swamp Overflows
Donald Trump vowed to drain the swamp. That may have been his honest intention, but it was and remains an impossible promise to keep. A person might as well set about emptying the Pacific Ocean with a tablespoon.
Vegas Survivor: Shot in Leg or Not, I’m Standing for My President
When Thomas Gunderson first heard the noise he thought a speaker had malfunctioned, or maybe someone had shot off some fireworks. But then he heard the screams — and the 28-year-old from Newport Beach, California, realized he was standing in the middle of a killing field.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Trump Gets Blunt at the United Nations
Will bracing clarity make things better or worse? We’ll know soon enough. But he said things the world needed to hear.
Detroit Is Home to One of America’s Most Accomplishing Politicians
With biblical succinctness, and foreshadowing a resurrection, Mike Duggan said, “Let there be light!” and 65,000 LED streetlights replaced the 40 percent of the city’s streetlights that were broken when he took office in 2014.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Faith-Based Groups Free to Believe After HHS Rollback
Congress wants to take another crack at repealing Obamacare, but the president isn’t going to sit on his hands until it does.
ISIS Doubles Down
ISIS is doubling down on its claim that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was “a soldier of the Islamic State.” The latest edition of the Islamic State’s propaganda newsletter claims that Paddock converted six months ago.
Fumbling the Football
The Never-Trumpers were having a field day on the football field so long as they got to call all the plays, flag all the penalties and invent an opposing team consisting solely of straw men.
School Marching Band Stands Up to Tone-Deaf Atheists
High school football is a religion in the Deep South. So it’s really no surprise that the halftime show at Leeds High School is a religious experience.
New York Times: Communism ‘Made Life Better’ for Chinese Women
I recently wrote about a shocking piece in The New York Times peddling a line we literally would’ve once expected from the Daily Worker or Pravda. The Times ran a strange article asserting that Soviet Bloc women enjoyed “better sex under communism.”
Friday, October 6, 2017
Guns & Politics
Today I’m counting my blessings. My wife Colleen, my daughter Ashley and I are huge country and western fans. We go to lots of outdoor concerts and Country Music Association awards shows.
One Man’s Stand
I’d like to start today with some encouraging news. So kudos to citizen Thomas Gunderson, who displayed tremendous strength and patriotism Wednesday.
Unborn in the USA
The House did its job to protect life, and now it’s time for Senate leaders to do theirs!
Come and Take Them
The idea that gun-control advocates don’t want to confiscate your weapons is, of course, laughable.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and Hate
Splcexposed.com. Write that site down and visit it often. It reveals how the radical Left is trying to destroy organizations and individuals who are working to defend America’s families and our civil society.
An American Madness
All countries have mental illness, but its expression differs dramatically by culture. Historically, in Southeast Asia, men whose minds were coming unglued displayed symptoms of wild, uncontrolled violence. It was called “amok” and entered our language as “running amok.”
Both Parties’ Extremists Seem Determined to Lose the Next Elections
Almost no one disagrees that our two major political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the past decade. It’s a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.
Politicians and Guns: Follow the Votes, Not the Money
The NRA has given money to Republican politicians. But in the grubby bazaar of politician-buying, the NRA is a bit player.