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Let’s put on a show. For a good cause, of course. Call it the Andy Hardy Strategy. All singing. All dancing. Fundamentally, all fluff; that is, all surface. And the central key to success? A deceptive, shameless appeal to emotion. Oscar Levant once said, “Beneath all the tinsel and glitter of Hollywood—is more tinsel and glitter.” How aptly this characterizes the unfolding essence of Donald Trump. The old MGM Andy Hardy films most famously showcased the teenaged Mickey Rooney (all energy, and without an ounce of self-reflection) and the talented Judy Garland. Propelled by some trivial goal which necessitated raising … Continue reading →

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Spring is in the air signaling the start of homebuying season.  But here in Las Vegas, buyers “are aplenty,” 1st Realty Group owner Thomas Blanchard tells the Las Vegas Review Journal, but “we just don’t have the properties to sell them.” It hardly seems possible, not enough homes for sale. After all, squatting in bank-owned homes has become a cottage industry in Sin City, where 2% of all homes, close to 14,000, sit vacant (or occupied by trespassers), remnants of the housing crash. “Las Vegas metropolitan police, which patrol an area of nearly two million residents, have seen a 25% … Continue reading →

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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9  I am writing these words before Good Friday (including Orthodox Christian) 2017. Tensions between nations have never been greater. Although there are tens of millions of people in America who profess the Christian faith, there appears to be very little in the way of public protests against military actions and incipient war. Recently, conservative talk show host Michael Savage publicly criticized President Trump’s decision to attack Syria. His conversation with author and columnist Pat Buchannan is on this YouTube of his broadcast on April 11th. In his … Continue reading →

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“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)” Those are among Jesus’ last words on the Cross that first Good Friday. It was a cry of agony, but not despair. The dying Christ, to rise again in three days, was repeating the first words of the 22nd Psalm. And today, in lands where Christ lived and taught and beyond where the Christian faith was born and nourished, the words echo. For it is in the birthplace of Christianity that Christians face the greatest of persecutions and martyrdoms since the time of Vladimir Lenin and Josef … Continue reading →

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Joseph Sobran. Subtracting Christianity: Essays on American Culture and Society. FGF Books, 2015. 425 pp. “On the whole, the secularist media seem to be resigned to the election of a Catholic to the papacy” (210). This line, written in 2005 shortly after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, is vintage Joe Sobran. It is not just extremely witty. In a few words, it communicates so much: the stability of Roman Catholic doctrine, the hatred of that doctrine by so many moderns, and those moderns’ reluctant acknowledgment that the church is not inclined to change in order to suit them. … Continue reading →

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New Korean War may break out ‘at any moment’ – Chinese Foreign Minister

‘We will go to war if they choose’: North Korea warns ‘aggressive’ Trump not to provoke Pyongyang

Donald Trump spends 18th day playing golf since entering White House – as fears grow of war with North Korea

Major doubts about letters claiming Islamist motive for Dortmund attack

US Air Force test-drops gravity nuclear bomb

Spanish firefighter refuses to ship arms to Saudi Arabia over Yemen ‘war crimes,’ may lose job

CIA director calls WikiLeaks a threat to US national security

CIA director calls WikiLeaks a threat to US national security

Theresa May faces rebellion from her own MPs over foreign student numbers

Coca-Cola responsible for polluting the earth with 100 BILLION plastic bottles, reveals alarming investigation