(This entire post is hat-tipped to Patterico's Pontifications guest-blogger Karl.) As has been power-blasted across the newsosphere today, President Barack H. Obama today issued an executive order (EO) revoking President George W. Bush's EO that banned federal funding of destructive embryonic stem-c...

EDIT: Title correction (MSM was MSNBC - it appears to be originating from a mainstream CBS affiliate and MSNBC carried the story and a link to the video at the bottom). I don't rant often, but this one got under my skin because it was utterly ridiculous. Ask yourself this as you read my post and wat...

If you were out in boat as three storms were about to converge over you, would you not drop to your knees and pray? There are many attacks on the Catholic Church today. Groups of so-called Catholics are working in concert to generate a perfect storm for our bishops. The consciences of these so-calle...

To all who read this open letter to US Bishops and the article about which it is written: Please consider emailing this post to your local bishop's office or printing it and sending it via mail. Be sure to include a printout of the linked article at the National Catholic Reporter. You may also conta...

Good grief. There are some real bozos over there at The Tablet - a UK "catholic" weekly with a readership of about just over 23,000 (but as Fr. Z points out, he gets more than that in one day!) Go read Fr. Tim Finigan's legally compliant response to The Tablet's goofy article. I mean, this is just p...

jgarber posted a photo: I've been using the configuration seen here for about a month or so and it's working nicely. The one gripe I had was with tuning during songs. The Ernie Ball VP (when in "silent") would route a signal to the tuner, but it wasn't completely silent. There was also the...

I haven't much paid attention to the writings of Greg Krupa of the Detroit News, but I got aquainted with his journalism style the day Archbishop Vigneron was announced to take the helm in Detroit. I was purely annoyed with the negative slant he placed upon Cardinal Maida. If there was anything dece...

Whether I’m in a great mood or downright angry, Social Distortion always hits the mark. Mike Ness and crew thrive on music that is mean enough to mess with the punks and melodic enough to please the twangers with a single song – the band’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.â€� Call ...

Excelente banda punk que atravessou os anos 80/90, estando ainda na ativa. Para ler a biografia deles clique aqui . Eu gosto muito do álbum de 1996, White Light, White Heat, White Trash, no qual fora lançada uma das melhores músicas dos anos 90, ¨I was wrong¨. Posts anteriores: I , II, III , IV...

Christian exclusivism was bound to fade away over time, and to the chagrin of evangelicals like Albert Mohler, apparently it's doing just that, according to a new Pew survey. (Hat tip: The Lead and TitusOneNine.)  Exclusivism's fade-out shouldn't surprise anyone.  My own conjecture is that...