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Insanity & Doom Update XLVII
Item North Carolina Elementary Teachers Struggle To Pass Math Portion Of Licensing Exam The Charlotte Observer reports that nearly half of newly hired teachers in North Carolina failed to pass…
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Episcopal Meltdown
A new prayer is being formulated by the Episcopal Church. An early copy was leaked. That copy found its way into my hands. I put it here for your judgement.…
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Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
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Sarah Jeong, The New York Times & The Problem Of Whites
I am glad the New York Times did not fire Sarah Jeong. Not only am I happy, I am thrilled. I'm hoping she is assigned the Maxine Waters beat. I'm…
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Worst Pope Ever?
Garrison Keillor performed a neat trick. He gently teased and admonished his enlightened NPR (pardon the redundancy) audience, which to a man or a woman identifying as a man, thought…
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Corporate Zampolit
Soviet military companies and regiments infamously had in addition to regular officers zampolit, or (by the older name) political commissars. The position was as "a supervisory officer responsible for the…
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What Christianity Fails Into
People don't usually embrace Caribbean animistic Santeria when abandoning Christianity. They instead become animal "rights" supporters and talk about being nice to the planet. Nor do ex-Christians typically replace bathtub…
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The McCarrick Scandal & Objectively Disordered Sexual Desires
It will be no surprise that the Catholic church is plunged deep into yet another scandal involving men with objectively disordered sexual desires. One of the "explainers" of this scandal…