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No Rain for a Month

Our rural area, fifty miles outside of Pittsburgh, had so much rain that the farmers couldn’t plant their...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The 4th of July. Freedom From Raccoons.

Millions of emasculated Americans think it is their duty to tolerate diseased, often rabid, raccoons around their homes,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

There is Not a Free Press. There is, However, an…

The persisting innocence that anyone employed by the expensive press cares more about anything than getting paid is...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for July 3, 2011

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Zec 9:9-10 Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander

One of life’s most enjoyable satisfactions is watching prosperous tax-addicts being hoist by their own petard. Professional academics...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Two Imaginary Problems: Deep Natural Gas Wells…

We make a minor breakthrough when we realize that bribes are the major component of government decisions. Bribes...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Not a Good Idea to let Spiritual Gravity Pull us…

All but the most saintly of us are stuck, in varying degrees, in one or more different kinds...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

National Bankruptcy?

During the last Presidential election, Ron Paul was the only candidate who told the truth about the nation’s...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

A Memorable Prophecy

Genesis 22: 6-8 tells us, in today’s reading: “On the third day Abraham got sight of the place...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Fighting Destruction

We tend to forget how bad “bad” is. The fallen angels at every level live and labor to...