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"In 1974, Marchiselli was elected to the Assembly, defeating Republican Victor B. Tosi in a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:29:07 -0400

“In 1974, Marchiselli was elected to the Assembly, defeating Republican Victor B. Tosi in a competitive race. Marchiselli was re-elected to four terms. Marchiselli was affiliated with the “reform wing” of Bronx Democrats, who included then-Assemblymen Oliver Koppell and Eliot L. Engel.[3] The “reform” Democrats in the Bronx often clashed with the “regular” Democrats who strongly supported the powerful Bronx Democratic County political machine and its chairmen such as Charles A. Buckley, Patrick Cunningham and Stanley M. Friedman. Although liberal on most issues, Marchiselli, a devout Catholic, was pro-life on abortion and supported tax credits for parents who send their children to private schools”

- Vincent Marchiselli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Why do I bring all of this up? Because in order to believe that markets never reach incorrect..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:18:20 -0400

“Why do I bring all of this up? Because in order to believe that markets never reach incorrect outcomes you have to believe that Tumblr, Orbital, and Alon are all worth exactly the same sum—despite the gargantuan disparities in incomes, outputs, and assets. As a philosophical matter, I suppose this isn’t impossible. It’s just insane.
This sort of thing isn’t new, of course. Almost exactly a year ago Facebook purchased another photo-based social platform, Instagram, for $1 billion. That purchase was funny not because of Instagram’s revenues—they had none—but because a mere four days before the sale Instagram had received a round of venture capital which valued the company at $500 million. Again, you have two market-based results in enormous tension. So either one (or both) of the valuations were wrong or the value of Instagram doubled over the course of 96 otherwise unremarkable hours.
I’m not arguing that we should scrap the free market. Over the long haul, the free market has been responsible for an amazing expansion of prosperity and liberty across the globe. It has lifted masses out of poverty and provided freedom for men, women, and children. The free market is a good—maybe even a very good—thing. But it isn’t infallible. And in the short and medium run, it often makes mistakes and creates outcomes that are neither good nor wise.”

- Yahoo’s Insane Purchase of Tumblr | The Weekly Standard

"The priest who comes out on the altar and greets the folks in his own colloquial way, and then..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:15:03 -0400

“The priest who comes out on the altar and greets the folks in his own colloquial way, and then starts the Mass with the text, doesn’t ealize that there IS a greeting in the Mass. He speaks in “real life” and then retreats to the formal worship. He does so at the end as well. “Have a nice day!”
This priest I concelebrated with did not seem to realize that in the Eucharistic Prayer we are speaking to God, not the congregation.
I believe that putting the priest celebrant behind the altar facing the people was a very serious, core error. When I celebrate the Traditional Mass or the Anglican Use liturgy (which is generally celebrated with the traditional altar ceremonies), I come before the altar, face it in the same direction as the people, and begin Mass by addressing Him. I submit myself to the rite; the people submit themselves to the rite. We participate together.
The Novus Ordo has made the priest the focus. He starts by initiating a dialogue with the people. He keeps up this dialogue throughout the Mass. He stands behind the Altar like Julia Childs doing a cooking demonstration at her kitchen island.
Subtly but pervasively this has changed our whole approach to worship. The new book is demanding the priest’s attention; its language is deliberately”

- A Priest Writes: “A New Translation Cannot Be Expected to Accomplish Everything”

"As an adoptive family, it’s sometimes difficult to describe the immense challenges in gathering..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:12:55 -0400

“As an adoptive family, it’s sometimes difficult to describe the immense challenges in gathering paperwork, opening your lives to social workers for home studies, then expensive travel to sometimes-corrupt foreign locales to then launch a new life with a child you love immensely but who is also experiencing his or her own culture shock and adjustment. All of this places a great strain on family finances and emotions. To then face an audit on the other side? All so the IRS can collect a whopping 1 percent additional revenue? It’s beyond the pale. If the IRS is concerned about fraud, it can audit random samples, not the vast majority of adoptive families claiming the credit.The IRS is a broken institution. Yet despite its moral and legal corruption, it still wields immense power.”

- IRS Morality: Defend Planned Parenthood, Deluge Adoptive Families with Audits | National Review Online

"The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother - thanks to being brought up by a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:59 -0400

“The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother - thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman.
You see, my mum taught me that children enslave women. I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale … Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families.”

- Author Alice Walker’s Daughter Slams Mom for Radical Feminist Ideology

Everyday I Read

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:15 -0400

Everyday I Read

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:09:15 -0400

Ninth Circuit Rules Abortion More Important than Women’s Lives

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:13 -0400

Ninth Circuit Rules Abortion More Important than Women’s Lives

"the next mayor of New York City is probably going to be a Democrat. And I strongly suspect that..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:02:21 -0400

“the next mayor of New York City is probably going to be a Democrat. And I strongly suspect that Anthony Weiner is the most reasonable and tough-minded of the bunch. (I know this constitutes a harsh condemnation of New York City politics”

- Weiner for Mayor | National Review Online

Remarkably this is probably true. This doesn’t tell us who to vote for but it is probably a true statement.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:44 -0400

"Mr. Issa, Mr. Cummings just said we should run this like a courtroom, and I agree with him. She just..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:52:44 -0400

“Mr. Issa, Mr. Cummings just said we should run this like a courtroom, and I agree with him. She just testified. She just waived her Fifth Amendment right to privilege. You don’t get to tell your side of the story and then not be subjected to cross examination. That’s not the way it works. She waived her Fifth Amendment privilege by issuing an open statement. She ought to stand here and answer our questions.”

- Rep. Gowdy: Lerner “Waived Her Fifth Amendment Right” By Giving Statement | RealClearPolitics

"Because nautral gas is an exhaustible natural resource, WTO’s general trade rules allow the U.S. to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:30:27 -0400

“Because nautral gas is an exhaustible natural resource, WTO’s general trade rules allow the U.S. to restrict its export without causing any particular problems, and that’s in effect what we’ve been doing the shale/fracking boom began booming several years ago. In part this is because natural gas is pretty complicated to export — it can be transported via pipelines, but for countries that are more efficiently reached by ship, the gas has to be liquefied, a relatively expensive and complicated process that produces a highly volatile product (in fact, LNG terminals and ships are considered a serious security risk in U.S. ports). The federal government has to approve the construction and operation of those ports, and as WaPo explains, this is just the second time it’s done so for an operation that will ship LNG to a country with which we don’t have a free-trade agreement”

- Obama Administration Approves New Natural-Gas Exports | National Review Online

"Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:25:33 -0400

“Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist.”

- Whitney Museum of American Art: Hopper Drawing

"Eros, in fact, is everything that Speak About It and the hookup culture are not. Casual sex, readily..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:20:00 -0400

“Eros, in fact, is everything that Speak About It and the hookup culture are not. Casual sex, readily available sex, publicized sex, sloppy drunk sex, sex for the sake of self-gratification and self-discovery—this is not eros. “Sex-on-tap,” Nehring writes in A Vindication of Love, “attenuates rather than inflames passion. It is for this reason that the relentless emphasis on sexual climax that distinguishes our day from most others in historical memory has a largely depleting effect on the life of the emotions… The natural distances between people have been diminished so radically as to make romance—which depends on the retention of other-ness, tensions, and reserve—impossible.””

- Shut Up, Or You’ll Kill Eros | The American Conservative

"G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:19:10 -0400

“G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.” A rich man cannot be a thief. He must be a kleptomaniac. America, the richest society in the history of the world, applies this use of science with diligence.
We apply it most diligently on behalf of our children. No red-blooded American child would misbehave. Our children have disorders”

- Why American Kids Have ADHD and French Kids Don’t » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

mightyflynn: 1984 NicFitVintage

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:18:48 -0400

mightyflynn:

1984

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"American Christians were shocked on Friday morning as they turned on their radios. The popular radio..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:16:36 -0400

“American Christians were shocked on Friday morning as they turned on their radios. The popular radio station known as “K-Love” had suddenly switched from their familiar format of contemporary Christian music #CCM# and praise and worship music to a cappella unaccompanied psalms, with recordings taken from various congregations of the Free Church of Scotland. “I was expecting Chris Tomlin when I loaded up the kids for school this morning.” Said Kathy Valen, mother of four. “Instead I got a jarring rendition of Psalm 109:10, ‘Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.’ My kids were just a little freaked out, and I’ll admit, I was too.””

- A joke..alas

Tominthebox News Network - Religious Humor/Satire: K-Love Switches to Exclusive A Cappella Psalmody

Dug this up for an email I was writing. Perhaps my favourite...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:47:00 -0400

Dug this up for an email I was writing. Perhaps my favourite line from any political speech ever. And completely consistent with my own observations about the nature of the Left.

"Art thou impatient, friend, when the wicked thrive; dost thou envy the lot of evil-doers? They will..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:17 -0400

“Art thou impatient, friend, when the wicked thrive; dost thou envy the lot of evil-doers? They will soon fade like the grass, like the green leaf wither away. Be content to trust in the Lord and do good; live on thy land, and take thy ease, all thy longing fixed in the Lord; so he will give thee what thy heart desires. Commit thy life to the Lord, and trust in him; he will prosper thee, making thy honesty clear as the day, the justice of thy cause bright as the sun at noon. (Psalm 36: 1-6, R. Knox translation”

- Be content to trust in the Lord - Vultus Christi

"Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-08), who recently reintroduced the D.C. Pain Capable Unborn Protection..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:52 -0400

“Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-08), who recently reintroduced the D.C. Pain Capable Unborn Protection Act, which would outlaw abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks (or 22 weeks in the “LMP” system), when studies have indicated babies have developed the ability to feel pain, today announced he would soon be amending the bill to apply nationwide in a bid to prevent more cases like that of Kermit Gosnell. As Chair of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, Franks will hold a hearing on the legislation next Thursday”

- Franks to Expand D.C. Abortion Bill Nationwide | Congressman Trent Franks