Alice Paul Institute Happy birthday to Alice Paul, the great American born on January 11, 1885, whose courageous and groundbreaking leadership turned the tide of public opinion in support of nationwide women’s suffrage, culminating in the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Unlike the feminists coupled to the Democratic Party today, Alice Paul refused to be wooed by empty promises from politicians. Her | Read More »
It was supposed to be a slam-dunk. Under Obamacare, the Health and Human Services Department mandated insurance coverage of contraceptive and abortifacient drugs without allowing conscience exemptions for non-worship religious ministries or faithful secular employers. To dismiss ecclesiastical objections to the measure, Planned Parenthood and the liberal media created a narrative that 98 percent of Catholic women use artificial birth control. Despite the absurdity of | Read More »
+ (This diary is not intended to be a sermon to the choir. Instead, I hope that you will forward the link to your awakening giant Catholic friends who are not confident about becoming active in civic affairs. –U.R.) My worldview was wrenched into recalibration recently when I watched the video of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s March 2012 address “Lifting Up Our Voices: How Catholics Can | Read More »
But of all God’s miracles large and small, The most miraculous one of all Is that out of a worthless lump of clay, God has made a man today. from Fiddler on the Roof, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick If anyone has a grudge against Rick Santorum, it is I. Back in 2004, I was far from home, feeling secure in the knowledge that the Party | Read More »
Two weeks ago pro-abortion groups and their elected Democratic lackeys launched another offensive against pregnant military women and their precious fetuses by pushing for a Senate vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to overturn legislation that prohibits non life-saving abortions at US military clinics (h/t lifenews.com). Abortion advocates claim to have the best interests of women at heart, in that | Read More »
Wherein I employ the tortured logic of the left… Like a gaggle of nattering stada babas, Andrew Sullivan , Gawker.com , Bill Maher , Wonkette , and others have begun counting months on fingers regarding reports of a baby on the way for newlyweds Track and Britta Palin. As with previous Palin pregnancies, the usual suspects have swung into armchair gynecologist mode, using Facebook photos | Read More »
From the Diaries by Leon. This past October on Lincoln Square in Gettysburg, my family participated in the annual “Life Chain,” a prayerful hour of silent witness against abortion. The prayer on Lincoln Square was part of the larger national Life Chain effort on the same day, with participants in over 1500 cities (1). The reaction we received was largely positive, as passing | Read More »
The coastal state was embroiled in hard economic times. Expensive government programs had done little to ease poverty or unemployment. Entrenched fiscal mismanagement and corruption stirred the voters’ anger. She a was right-center candidate in a party associated with Christianity. He was a professed leftist running in a left-center electorate. She couldn’t escape her personal history of superficial interviews and big hair. He advocated a | Read More »
During interviews on NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’s Face the Nation, Democratic nominee for the Pennsylvania Senate seat and retired Navy three-star Admiral Joe Sestak evaded questions about a potentially felonious job offer from the White House, by invoking his Navy experience. MR. GREGORY: …So isn’t it in the–in the spirit of transparency, were you offered a job by the administration? And what was | Read More »
(H/T Lori_Z ) The “feminists” don’t speak for me: Because I believe that women are miracle workers through our extraordinary capacity to nurture life within and to bring forth children. To me, the primacy of unrestricted abortion in the “feminist” agenda reveals an insidious movement to deny women our full potential. Because I interpret chivalrous gestures as an affirmation of female ascendency. It is odd | Read More »
This morning I learned that my former neighbor, Jo the Factory Worker will be voting for McCain/Palin. Her husband Joe the Deli Worker is undecided but leans Obama/Biden. This should be a jolt to any Obama supporter because Joe and Jo’s demographic profile suggests that Sen. Obama should take their votes for granted. However, if the Obama camp could get past its fixation on skin | Read More »
Sometime in the 1970s, my Mom, a lifelong Republican, and my Dad, a Democrat-turned-Independent, heard young Sen. Joe Biden speak at a graduation ceremony. They were so moved by his embrace of common sense American values that he was their clear favorite in the run up to the 1988 Presidential election. Eventually it became clear to my parents that Sen. Biden had changed along the | Read More »
Every year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Catholics are asked to contribute to a special collection for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). This year, the CCHD collection will be taken up at the 22 November weekend Masses. The stated mission of CCHD is: to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, | Read More »
Dear Representative, Like many Pennsylvanians, ten days ago I became aware that a crisis in the United States financial system threatened to send our country into a full scale depression unless a $700 billion bailout bill was enacted quickly. Subsequent news revealed that certain Members of Congress had been warned of the impending disaster years earlier, but either denied the existence of a problem or | Read More »
Demagogic cries such as, “The rich should pay more taxes,” and “The oil companies are greedy,” are difficult to counter because they are short, simple and easy to believe. At four minutes, this video is longer than the average attention span, but the straightforward explanation and visual effects can help clarify how higher taxes and more government are bad things. I recommend this video for | Read More »
It’s not scientific and the sample size is small, but here is some raw data from my phone banking efforts on 9/8 and 9/15: 64 phone calls (32 each week) to likely voters, not all were Republicans. 9 McCain supporters (3 last week/6 yesterday) 8 Undecided (5 last week/3 yesterday) 1 Obama supporter (last week) 2 refused to respond 44 answering machines, messages, wrong numbers, | Read More »
If I were Vice President and not a stay at home mom, the first slide in my morning brief would show the location of my deployed son’s unit. I would be especially vigilant in foreign policy meetings to ensure our decisions would not unnecessarily risk the lives of anybody’s children. Any Senator from Illinois who claimed to support the troops while undercutting their mission would | Read More »
Senator John McCain’s substantive responses and unflappable demeanor at his town hall meeting in York, PA on Tuesday filled me with hope for the fall presidential debates. Based on McCain’s performance, I’d say he could beat the silver-tongued, glass-jawed Senator Barack Obama in a debate on Obama’s terms, moderated by the editorial board of the Village Voice, with no prior knowledge of the questions himself | Read More »
Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia sent me to the shelves to peruse my undergraduate Soviet/Russian politics books. I found the following passage in Hedrick Smith’s The New Russians (1991) that rings true of the Democratic Party today: In an open letter to Izvestia, [Gorbachev advisor Alexandr] Yakovlev argued that the Communist Party had turned against the individual citizen and had proven incapable of bringing forward | Read More »
Hey RedState Choir! I need to stop preaching to you and start working on some letters to the editor, so please excuse the brevity of my report. Upon entering the House chamber, I expected to see a Republican pep rally. Instead, it was much more like stepping into a Normal Rockwell painting. Average Americans, in a national crisis were looking to our leadership for help. | Read More »
Dear Obama Girl, With all of the presumptive Democratic nominee’s recent position changes, I’m sure you’re feeling hurt. I wrote the following new lyrics to the tune of ”I Got a Crush on Obama” to help you through your crisis: Please read on…
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