Month: May 2012

Blithe Spirit

 

Approached by a young woman at a reception and told she had bet she could get three words out of him, President Coolidge replied, “You lose.”

As mayor of Northampton MA, he bucked the trends and went out of his way for the Irish.

And how’s this for wisdom that lasts?

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

And:

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

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Silent Cal on film — a Yankee friend to Catholics

 

Calvin Coolidge.
Calvin Coolidge — wasted neither words nor money. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Approached by a young woman at a reception and told she had bet she could get three words out of him, President Coolidge replied, “You lose.”

As mayor of Northampton MA, he bucked the trends and went out of his way for the Irish.

And how’s this for wisdom that lasts?

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

And:

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

Fast stepping by Jesuit institution

Fast stepping by Jesuit institution

This is a very tangled web being spun at Georgetown, where HHS Secy. Sebelius, of mandate fame, has been invited to give a commencement talk . . .  no, a talk at a commencement time event . . .  no, a talk at a “tropaia” gathering, where trophies are given . . . no . . .  oh, forget it.

Georgetown is coming up with new versions of this speaking appearance of the Catholic who would make Catholic universities and hospitals offer contraceptive and morning-after abortifacient pills insurance.  It’s one accommodation after another.  That place is acting, dare we suggest it, you might say . . . jesuitical.

 

Chicago Newspapers

Not too badly, for starters.  Consider Mayor Rahm Emanuel, late of the global office, winner of primary in one-party city, now with Fifth Floor Office on LaSalle Street, and his “pension plan.”  As elucidated by Sun-Times people Spielman and McKinney 5/9/12.

Their story shows Democrats getting the Wis. Gov. Scott Walker message.  Showing the way to fiscal sanity, Walker has emboldened the weak of heart, even in Illinois.  Ditto Wis. Congressman Paul Ryan, rashly depicted as violating Christian principles with program of austerity when quite the opposite is true.  A little child will lead them, says Scripture in another context; in this case it’s Wisconsin.

As for violating Christian or peculiarly Catholic principles, where is the rule that says you rob Peter to pay Paul over and over until all falls down and all suffer, the poor as usual more than anyone else?  Or one that…

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Let the Democrat press shenanigans begin . . . or continue on next level

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Today’s unconscionable Washington Post story, which implied without evidence that Mitt Romney was a homophobic bully to one John Lauber back in his high school days five decades ago, has totally imploded.

Timed to drop the day after President Obama’s announced embrace of same-sex marriage, the story set the political world atwitter. But earlier today, Breitbart News reported that the Post had inflated witness testimony. The original Washington Post piece stated the following:

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Blithe Spirit

From the Sycamore Trust, “an alarming recent study”:

[M]any students become pro-choice at Notre Dame. By the time they graduate, there are as many pro-choice students (42%) as in the general population. Among the reasons may be mixed signals from the faculty.

Though the University declared itself pro-life in the wake of the Obama episode, there is reason to think that a large proportion of the faculty is pro-choice, and prominent members of the Theology faculty have been outspoken in their dissent from Church teaching on abortion.

Indeed, the nation’s leading “Catholic” pro-choice advocate has welcomed the recent public dissent from Church teaching by one of Notre Dame’s most widely known ethicists.

Give Notre Dame a pro-lifer, get back a pro-choicer. Read about it here.

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