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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

LGF Auto-Beclownment Update

Really, I should feel guilty for so thoroughly enjoying these predictable outbreaks of Johnsonian idiocy. In case you didn’t notice, the terrorist attack in London this week was not committed by radical Belgians or militant creationists or any of the other overblown right-wing bogeymen that occupy the demented mind of Jazzy McPonytail. No, it was [...]

Muslim Student Association Doesn’t Get Credit for Soccer League Sponsorship

Kind of an interesting omission, don’t you think? Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to his college’s Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative. Although a student leader and the mainstream media [...]

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up

Flaming skull alert at Ace of Spades for the release of e-mails confirming that (a) officials knew from the outset that the attack on the consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists, but (b) this information was suppressed for political purposes: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the [...]

Neo-Pagans Taking Over GOP?

Liberals have spent decades warning that Christian conservatives were attempting to use the Republican Party as a vehicle to impose their theocratic beliefs on America, I guess that’s why nobody was looking when the Wiccans, Druids and Odinists took over: A New York City councilman who was arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig [...]

‘We Record What Is to All Known’

The Fall of Man (or, Adam and Eve), Hendrick Goltzius, 1616 (detail) “The true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all. Though revilers of the Christian faith refuse to acknowledge the never-interrupted doctrine of the Church on this subject, and have long striven to destroy the testimony of all nations and of [...]

Under the New Pope’s Teaching, Should Pelosi and Biden Be Ex-Communicated?

Before he became Pope Francis, the Argentine cardinal’s doctrine would have excluded Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi from Communion. Father Shenan J. Boquet president of Human Life International explains: While we cannot know what is truly in someone’s heart, all too often political or other high-profile figures who profess to [...]

POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS

The 86-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church has announced he will retire effective Feb. 28, citing poor health. UPDATE: In a statement, Pope Benedict writes: “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate [...]

Scientology Continues Its Unwelcome Encounter With the ‘Streisand Effect’

A week ago, the secretive Scientology cult accidentally invited closer media scrutiny by paying The Atlantic to publish a “sponsored content” article so over the top that it generated a massive backlash. It wasn’t difficult for journalists to figure out why the creepy sci-fi “religion” was trying to buy good publicity: Award-winning reporter Lawrence Wright [...]

From the NTTAWWT Files: Feds Arrest Transvestite Priest for Dealing Meth

Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That: The Catholic priest busted for allegedly dealing crystal meth was suspended after church officials discovered he was a cross-dresser who was having sex in the rectory at Bridgeport’s St. Augustine Cathedral. . . . Monsignor Kevin Wallin was relieved of his duties in May, but the Roman Catholic [...]

‘Streisand Effect’: Scientology Imploding?

One of the principles of the New Media age is that attempts to suppress the truth tend to backfire, generating greater interest in the hidden truth. The so-called “Streisand Effect” may now be invoked in the wake of Monday’s debacle in which The Atlantic published a ludicrously over-the-top “advertorial” for Scientology and was forced to [...]

France Battles Islamists in Mali

American political commentators have shown little interest in the war that France is fighting against an al-Qaeda-linked uprising in Africa: As a new round of French military raids targeted Islamist rebels in Mali on Sunday, both sides of the battle said they were determined to win. Sunday’s raids were the latest in a French operation [...]

The Truth and Its Enemies

Last Friday, Pope Benedict gave a Christmas address, in which he raised serious issues about the role of marriage in society: So it became clear that the question of the family is not just about a particular social construct, but about man himself — about what he is and what it takes to be authentically [...]

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