There's a new White House Council on Women & Girls as of today. To be run by Obama's Svengali, Valerie Jarrett, lately of Chicago and Mayor Daley's office. We need a Council on women because women make up more than 50% of our college students, are taking over certain professions (such as medicin...

with Harrison Beillor     LISTEN The Whispering Cloud by Guy Bouchard I lied on my back in the front yard Watching a Cloud. I thought it was a nice Cloud It was a puffy Cloud Until it whispered to me… It said, Why the hell are you lying there looking at me? Who are you to judge me? Who are ...

“Freedom of Worship” from The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petit...

You’ll want to read neo-neocon today. She’s got quotes by Lenin and thoughts on Dostoevsky and yes, it’s all relevant, relevant, relevant. The quotes from Lenin are chilling and you will be able to relate all of them to what is happening in America, today, even though President Oba...

Let me tell you what today has been like, and we’re only a few hours into it. Those of you who don’t understand what a low-down, bitchy sinner I am may be surprised. Those of you who do know (or suspect) that I am a bitchy sinner will be gratified. I started the morning crabbing to my hu...

This is an interesting piece, but one part in particular stands out: I asked my colleague Elizabeth Tenety, producer of Divine Impulses and our former “Campus Catholic” blogger, to explain [why the Church targets Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, but not those who favor t...

with Harrison Beillor    LISTEN The Lonely Fish by Morris Klinkmen I watched a salmon run today. He didn’t have shoes, He wasn’t very fast, He might have been a she… How do you know? I never saw its feet. Fish don’t have feet… Do they? But they run. How do they do th...

Yes, I'm still a Benedict groupie in spite of having given over the weekly Potpourri for some months. There is too much I've missed, so lemme sum up. Old Popery: Benedict in France: laicite . Election of Kyrill as Patriarch of Moscow & All Russia Hopeful news . For the year of St. Paul, Benedict...

By Christopher Gabriel , CGabriel.com It was February 26, 2009.  In the language and psyche of Minnesota, this was to be . . . The Day.  Snowmageddon.  Snow Emergency.  The End is Upon Us.  You betcha, we’re in trouble. The lines at the stores were insane.  People buying all the eggs,...

I stopped watching Bill O’Rielly long ago–and since I don’t have a TV at the moment, I don’t watch any of the Cable Newsertainment channels, whether CNN, MSNBC or Fox. I stopped watching O’Rielly when I realized that he displayed an amazing degree of ignorance or oversi...