Day: February 24, 2011

The real weakness with democracies is that legislators are susceptible to bribes. Usually disguising bribes as “campaign contributions”, bribers give money to legislators to get laws passed to enrich or empower them. True story: A nearby company makes a product that incorporates a patented improvement that may keep some things from being damaged. In asking […]

After a thousand years in Hell, the Dragon, Satan, is released. If the Catholic Fundamentalism theory that the thousand years began about the time of Charlemagne’s crowning by the Pope (800 A.D.) and ended about a thousand years later with the French Revolution and Napoleon “offering physical violence” to the Pope, then we are in […]

Last Saturday’s column included the posting of a painting portraying an older officer leading a rag-tag army of brave, young Americans into battle. It was especially moving. When catholicfundamentalism.com readers were asked if anyone could identify the painter and his painting, Dan Engler replied that it was painted by Howard Pyle, and is called “The […]