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The Twilight Hour of Socialism

Donald R. McClarey Tuesday, February 19, AD 2019 2 Comments

Alas, for Days Gone Bye*:
“Dear Committee Members” Reviewed

“… I fear we are the last remaining members of a dying profession. We who are senior and tenured are seated in the first car of a roller coaster with a broken track, and we’re scribbling and grading our way

Bob Kurland, Ph.D. Tuesday, February 19, AD 2019 2 Comments

PopeWatch: Vigano

Archbishop Carlo Vigano has some questions about the Vatican Dog and Pony Sex Abuse Summit: I am praying intensely for the success of the February summit. Although I would rejoice greatly if the summit were successful, the following questions

Donald R. McClarey Tuesday, February 19, AD 2019 3 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Lucy of China

I now turn in a special way to the pilgrims who have come for the canonization of the 120 Martyrs in China. First of all you, faithful of Chinese origin, with whom I would like to share my deep joy

Donald R. McClarey Tuesday, February 19, AD 2019 No Comments

Requiescat In Pace: George Mendonsa

George Mendonsa has passed away at age 95. Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts does the honors: Who? Him: A man who was part of the American psyche as I grew up. I was that generational bridge.

Donald R. McClarey Monday, February 18, AD 2019 3 Comments

Keep Them Away From Edmund Burke!

Hattip to Christopher Blosser.

Donald R. McClarey Monday, February 18, AD 2019 No Comments

Grant on the Civil War

And, after that, the chunky man from the West, Stranger to you, not one of the men you loved As you loved McClellan, a rider with a hard bit, Takes you and uses you as you could be used, Wasting

Donald R. McClarey Monday, February 18, AD 2019 4 Comments

PopeWatch: Uncle Ted

“Yeah, five years. If we had five years, the Lord working through Bergoglio in five years could make the Church over again.” “He will walk across the stage and people will follow him. They will find in him like they

Donald R. McClarey Monday, February 18, AD 2019 21 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Fra Angelico

He who does Christ’s work must stay with Christ always. Fra Angelico

Donald R. McClarey Monday, February 18, AD 2019 2 Comments

Requiescat in Pace: Pat Caddell

Pat Caddell has passed away at age 68. He went from being Jimmy Carter’s wunderkind pollster in 1976 to supporting Trump in 2016. Always a populist, Caddell had little love for what his Democrat party had morphed into in

Donald R. McClarey Sunday, February 17, AD 2019 7 Comments

Internet Hitler Learns That Bruno Ganz Has Died

Well that was inevitable. Rest in peace Mr. Ganz, you dealt with your odd fame with grace.

Donald R. McClarey Sunday, February 17, AD 2019 4 Comments

Living the Anti-American Dream

My favorite internet atheist, Pat Condell, warns about tech giants and their emerging role as enforcers of Leftist orthodoxy in a future progressive police state. The signs of this are everywhere. The tech giants “de-platforming” conservatives, and

Donald R. McClarey Sunday, February 17, AD 2019 12 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Alexis Falconieri

“I have chosen you to be my first Servants, and under this name you are to till my Son’s vineyard. Here, too, is the habit which you are to wear; its dark color will recall the pangs which I suffered

Donald R. McClarey Sunday, February 17, AD 2019 1 Comment

Book Haul

My bride and I took advantage of a 20% off sale to make a trip to a Half Price Book in Naperville. Here are the books that I purchased: Four Queens, Nancy Goldstone, (2007)-An audio book of the

Donald R. McClarey Sunday, February 17, AD 2019 5 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Juliana of Cumae

AFTER many torments, she was beheaded at Nicomedia, under Galerius Maximianus. St. Gregory the Great mentions that her bones were translated to Rome. Part of them are now at Brussels, in the church of our Lady of Sablon. This saint

Donald R. McClarey Saturday, February 16, AD 2019 No Comments

Eating Their Own

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is busy celebrating her victory over the tyrannical Jeff Bezos and the horrible burden his company Amazon had planned to inflict on the people of

Donald R. McClarey Saturday, February 16, AD 2019 16 Comments

PopeWatch: Kasper the Friendly Cardinal

From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber: Just days after Cardinal Müller published a “Manifesto of Faith,” which reiterated fundamental Catholic teachings in response to what he sees as growing confusion

Donald R. McClarey Saturday, February 16, AD 2019 8 Comments

They Like Ike

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. Will Rogers Something for the weekend. They Like Ike (1952).

Donald R. McClarey Saturday, February 16, AD 2019 3 Comments

Trump Declares National Emergency to Fund Border Wall

As a rule I am opposed to presidents declaring national emergencies to sidestep the normal way our government is supposed to work. However, since the National Emergencies Act was enacted in 1976, Presidents have declared 59 national emergencies. We

Donald R. McClarey Friday, February 15, AD 2019 21 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Claude de la Colombiere

Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will

Donald R. McClarey Friday, February 15, AD 2019 2 Comments

PopeWatch: Trolling

PopeWatch suspects the Pope is just trolling us now: Vatican City, Feb 14, 2019 / 05:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis Thursday nominated a new camerlengo, Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and

Donald R. McClarey Friday, February 15, AD 2019 10 Comments

Deep State? What Deep State?

Little surprise: Did the “highest levels” of the Department of Justice attempt to foment a coup d’etat in May 2017? Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told Scott Pelley that he quarterbacked a meeting to discuss removing Donald

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 36 Comments

The New Bigots

My favorite living historian, Victor Davis Hanson, explains how bigotry has found a home on the Left: The stereotyped hatreds were battled by the melting-pot forces of assimilation, integration and intermarriage. Civil rights legislation and broad education programs

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 16 Comments

Ah Romance!

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: CHANDLER, AZ—Marlena Bennington, girlfriend to Jace Everly for nearly three years, is absolutely swooning as Valentine’s Day approaches. “This is our third Valentine’s Day as a couple,” Bennington told

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 3 Comments

February 14, 1919: League of Nations

Of all his Fourteen Points, the nearest to the heart of President Wilson was the League of Nations, the mechanism, he hoped, that would avoid wars in the future. Ironically, Wilson would succeed in creating the League, and the

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 No Comments

PopeWatch: Pope of the Elites

The Pope continues his chosen role as chaplain and champion of global elites: Microsoft President Brad Smith met Pope Francis on Wednesday to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and ways to bridge the digital divide

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 3 Comments

Saint of the Day Quote: Saints Cyril and Methodius

However tired and physically worn out I am, I will go with joy to that land; with joy I depart for the sake of the Christian faith. Saint Cyril

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 3 Comments

February 14, 1929: Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre

Ninety years since the event that made Chicago infamous around the globe. Ironies abound in the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre by which Chicago gangster Al Capone sought to destroy his competitor gangster Adelard Cunin, known to infamy as George “Bugs”

Donald R. McClarey Thursday, February 14, AD 2019 4 Comments