Michelle Obama Needs Miss Manners’ Help in Dressing

Rarely do I give a flying flip about what the first lady wears.  I’m not that shallow or flighty.  I don’t read fashion magazines; I have a real life to live.  I don’t spend time with women who are so into such things they don’t have time for genuinely important things.  But when dressing for [...]

Unprecedented Catholic Bishops Opposition to National Healthcare Bill

Writing as a Catholic, who fully understands that the right to life of every conceived child is the very underpinning of all other rights, I am heartened by the announcement today by the US Council of Catholic Bishops.  This weekend, the Bishops have called for every single mass in every single American parish to be [...]

Common Good: The American Version

Here we are in the 21st century and the most glaring thing about it so far is that ordinary common sense has been utterly flipped upon its head and simple human dictums have lost all meaning.  Nowhere has this idiotic confusion become more rampant than in the usage of 2 little words, employed now as [...]

Poverty Ain’t What it Used to Be

This was sent to me from a close friend.  As the old saying goes, one picture is indeed worth 1,000 words.

Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless [...]

Real Women Don’t Tolerate Trash Talk

Believe it or not, it was once utterly unfashionable to engage publicly in trash talk.  Prior to the so-called “women’s liberation movement,” a David Letterman and his frat-boy joke writers would have known better than to even attempt the kind of sexually perverse lines that now parade in counterfeit fashion for genuine wit.  [...]