Month: June 2018

It’s Trump’s Economy Now

Obama said he’d “set up” the economy for Trump, which is now repeated ad nauseam by his supporters.

Oh?

Mr. Obama might be justified in taking credit for today’s economy if his successor had adopted and carried on his policies.

Instead, Mr. Trump has reversed nearly every Obama rule, edict and law that he can legally overturn.

At its core, the Trump economic strategy wasn’t complicated: systematically repeal Mr. Obama’s “accomplishments”—the tax increases, the regulatory blitz on business, the welfare expansions, the war on American fossil fuels, and so on.

As a result, the economy would pop like a cork pulled from a shaken champagne bottle.

And so it has.

via WSJ

Francis’ least favorite cardinal takes it to the new paradigm in a very sensitive location

He’s Robert Sarah from Guinea, going after communion in the hand.

 The head of the Vatican department overseeing liturgy is summoning the Catholic faithful to return to receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling.

In the preface to a new book on the subject, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, writes: “The most insidious diabolical attack consists in trying to extinguish faith in the Eucharist, by sowing errors and fostering an unsuitable way of receiving it. Truly the war between Michael and his Angels on one side, and Lucifer on the other, continues in the hearts of the faithful.”

Apocalyptic ballistics!

more more here: Cardinal Sarah: Widespread Communion in the hand is part of Satan’s attack on the Eucharist | News | LifeSite

The mass today: sales pitch not soul food

Why Whittaker Chambers chose communism:

There is a deep yearning in many people in modern society for something greater than their atomized and alienated selves. Whittaker Chambers, in explaining his embrace of communism to his children, reflected that it was not Marx’s dialectic or philosophy of history that made him join up with the communists. It was that communism offered something to people deeply searching for meaning.

Catholic mass is not competing:

The kitsch-like commercialization and consumerization of the Mass, and the loss of deep reverence and mystery, has led to a deep metaphysical and ontological poverty in Catholics and the broader culture at large. But in darkness the light shines brightest. In a dark room people cannot help but be drawn to the lone candle.

Catholics come seeking bread, are given a stone. Not how it’s supposed to be.

Let us not, let not Pope Francis et al. demonstrate contempt for the mass of old.

Etc. Rest of it at God and Mass at Yale – Crisis Magazine

Juanita Broaddrick on the joys of tweeting

Well said, capturing why it serves the truth, giving equal time to the people who don’t own printing presses (or broadcast stations.

Nearly four decades after Broaddrick says Clinton raped her, she says that she feels like more people believe her story now than when she first came forward. Some of that is because of Donald Trump, who during the campaign described her encounter with Clinton using the word “rape.”

“When he said the word ‘rape’ on Hannity, it was like he was speaking directly to me. It was like he gave me permission to use the word too.”

The rest, she says, is because she’s learned to effectively use Twitter. She explained, “My statements aren’t filtered by the media. It gave me the power to do what I’m doing now. I’m not completely sold on President Trump tweeting, but I agree with him on fighting back against the media. That’s the part of me that says ‘keep up the tweeting!’”

Of course. It’s how he gets around the moguls.

via Juanita Broaddrick: Bill Clinton Is Why There Is A #MeToo Movement — And Why It Cut Me Out | The Daily Caller

Group of teens accused of pushing people into Lake Michigan near Navy Pier

I think this is the kind of miscreant behavior referred to by the chief in the item below.

A group of teens was seen pushing people into Lake Michigan near Navy Pier Thursday night.

The reports follow reported mayhem along beaches and Downtown streets last weekend as roving groups of teenagers caused trouble, forcing Chicago Police officers to try to corral their movements.

Go, CP officers.

via Chicago Sun-Times

Grassley Wants To Pull Out All The Stops To Confirm Trump’s Judges

Good man, Senator G. Focus on and doing his job. Iowa’s finest. Ongoing problem shows Dems in unusually bad light.

Very, very bad, that is, as opposed to very bad.

Senate Democrats have aggressively leveraged procedural mechanisms to slow the pace of confirmations, forcing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to limit the amount of Senate time expended on judgeships. Judiciary committee Democrats regularly exercise their prerogative to delay consideration of nominees by one week, while Democratic leadership has forced time-consuming cloture votes on many circuit court nominees, even those confirmed with bipartisan support.

For instance:

In one instance, Democrats forced cloture on the nomination of Donald Coggins Jr. to the federal trial court in South Carolina. Coggins was originally nominated to the post by former President Barack Obama. He was confirmed on a 96–0 vote.

I revise my very, very bad. Make it very, very, very bad.

via The Daily Caller