Glenn Beck’s daughter was among the grads, Glenn was there. Among his thoughts:

. . . there was practically no mention of God [in the ceremony]. In fact, [at] one point, you know, the dean was talking about how we should ‑‑ we should serve each other, we should help each other, we should help the poor because ‑‑ and I thought, hes on it. Hes on the money. Hes on the money phrase. Because then indeed we all will be sons and daughters of fill in the blank, Glenn said.

When no one could guess, he revealed it was not sons and daughters of God but as sons and daughters of Fordham.

Rah. Rah. Rah.

These fellows, for starters:

James Madison wrote, “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” John Adams wrote, “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

Didn’t the IRS target groups that stated their goal as “educating the public about the Constitution”? No wonder.

This is what the Founders understood that today’s left doesn’t want to acknowledge or take seriously. Because if they did, they would have to give credence to the case for making government smaller and limiting its power.

Robert Tracinski on the case.

The pontiff: “When a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him – and that’s a sign…. St. Paul did not have a bank account, he worked, and when a bishop, a priest goes on the road to vanity, he enters into the spirit of careerism – and this hurts the church very much – [and] ends up being ridiculous: he boasts, he is pleased to be seen, all powerful – and the people do not like that!” It’s in this analysis of what’s to be done with and about the Vatican Bank.

Wanna “help . . . bother the Fed, the banksters, the Wall Street fixers, and the rest of the corporatist regime that is taking us over the cliff”? And yr near One East 60th Street, 8:00–10:00 AM, next Tuesday, May 21, with $100 to spare for breakfast and signed copy of David Stockman’s new book The Great Deformation: the Corruption of Capitalism in America? And hear Stockman talk, rubbing shoulders or at least in same room with Lew Rockwell, Andrew Napolitano, and Joseph Salerno? Go here to sign up.

. . . at Republican conservatives.

Whoa. This is the party, fractured as usual, but it goes deeper than Jim (Got Milk) Oberweis’ maneuverings. It’s the nature of the beast.

The situation:

There are currently over 600,000 refugees in Kenya’s refugee camps, many of whom are unaccompanied, orphaned and separated refugee girls and single young women without family members. Refugee girls and young women face the highest risks of exploitation, assault, forced marriage, and abuse, resulting in extreme barriers to education, medical care, and employment.

Sara Lind continues:

These are the kind of things I learned when I started volunteering for Heshima Kenya, an organization that specializes in protecting unaccompanied refugee children and youth, especially girls, living in Nairobi, Kenya. As a mother, especially a mother to a daughter, these statistics have more power over me than they once did.

Read the rest of it.

And know that OPRF grad Anne Sweeney co-founded Heshima Kenya and has been its executive director. She and our #2 Son, Peter, tied the marital knot a couple years ago, by the way. He’s put in time at Heshima K, now back at his work as architectural designer, she soon to rejoin him in Chi.

Learn all about Heshima Kenya at its site, http://www.heshimakenya.org/. Follow it on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Heshima_Kenya.

Happy Mother’s day.

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