Common Folk Using Common Sense

I’m not Catholic, and I do not generally revere specific Saints. Nevertheless I found this very interesting tidbit over at the St. Gabriel Possenti Society: The St. Gabriel Possenti Society promotes the public recognition of St. Gabriel Possenti, including his Vatican designation as Patron Saint of Handgunners. St. Gabriel Possenti was a Catholic seminarian whose [...]

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Hat tip to Neal Boortz: “The Law” is an 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848. The essay was influenced by John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. It is the work for which Bastiat is [...]

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Supposedly posted on the wall at First Baptist Church in Summersville, West Virginia: 1. Just one God 2. Put nothin’ before God 3. Watch yer mouth 4. Git yourself to Sunday meetin’ 5. Honor yer Ma & Pa 6. No killin’ 7. No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal 8. Don’t take what ain’t yers [...]

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From Cybercast News Service: Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine. “(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in [...]

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From FOX News: Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium. Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George‘s homily, yelling “Even the Pope calls for peace” as they were removed from the Mass by security [...]

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For twenty years, Barack Obama attended Trinity United Church in which Rev. Jeremiah Wright spewed his not famous hateful rhetoric on an apparently regular basis. For twenty years, Wright was Obama’s spiritual “mentor.” In Wright he had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model. When he took over Trinity United Church of Christ [...]

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This blog will be running on autopilot for a few days. Last Sunday was Palm Sunday. Yesterday was Maundy Thursday. Today is Good Friday. Sunday is Easter. This week, called Holy Week by many Christians, is the most sacred time of the year, and it commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus [...]

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St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of the world’s most widely known figures. He was born in Britain near the end of the fourth century, and died on March 17, around 460 A.D. At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by Irish raiders who were attacking his family’s estate. They [...]

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From the BBC: The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”. Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4′s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams [...]

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From BosNewsLife: A 70-year old woman remained in critical condition Sunday, January 27, in Bangladesh after suspected Muslim extremists reportedly tried to burn her alive to prevent her from being baptized as a Christian. Rahima Beoa, who was planning to be baptized on February 13 in Muslim-majority Rangpur district, 248 kilometers (154miles) northwest of the [...]

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At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go [...]

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Ben Stein, a lawyer by training, and also served as a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon, has to date authored sixteen books (both novels and non-fiction efforts), and continues to write editorials and columns for a number of prominent publications. He is perhaps best known to the world at large, however, for his in-front-of-the-camera [...]

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“O God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry; When I have work, help me to remember the jobless; When I have a home, help me to remember those who have no home at all; When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer, And remembering, help me to [...]

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Over at the DailyKoz (I don’t link there) someone by the name of Yacka Jah Yacka recently wrote a post entitled “A Simple Way to End the War on Terror”. He proposes that if everyone in the US would simply convert to Islam then terrorism would stop: How many of us are really just religious [...]

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From MSNBC: A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims. “Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we [...]

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