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Pa.'s plight of flight - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Injurious tax policies stifle new business in Pennsylvania and stagnate existing ones. Combined with government's unrelenting wealth redistribution that's touted as "economic development" for the favored few, who can blame people for leaving Pennsylvania?
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Hey, Kids! Tea Party Politics Now as Simple as a Coloring Book - ParentDish
All the coloring books when he was growing up in the '60s featured socialist characters like Yogi Bear.
(Yogi lives in a national park, the result of a government land grab that started in 1872 under the administration of notorious liberal Ulysses S. Grant. And stealing [pic-a-nic] baskets? Clearly a Marxist metaphor for the redistribution of wealth. There's just not enough red and yellow in the crayon box for a pinko like Yogi.)
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"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
Charity in truth - In other words, Wealth Redistribution!
Charity in truth - In other words, Wealth Redistribution!
The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
He said: Early in my Jesuit training, if pressed, the most I would have been able to say about him was this: He renounced his father's wealth, founded the Franciscans, loved nature, sang songs, wrote some poems, and undoubtedly died a happy death. (Oh, and he lived in Assisi.)
But as much as I found him a charming figure, my understanding of the world's most popular saint was the rather sentimental one that is common today, as a sort of dopey but well-meaning hippy who talked to birds. As Lawrence S. Cunningham notes in Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life, such a view is "most completely summed up by the ubiquity of those concrete garden statues with a bird perched on the saint's shoulder found in everyone's garden center." In this conception, Francis was cheerful no doubt, but also a little bland. "Such an understanding is coterminous what I would call spirituality lite."
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New Orleans Lawmaker Faces Uncertain Future As Cultures Clash : NPR
Mr. HENDRIX: You know, for a Jesuit seminarian who spent most of his seminary career as a missionary in the poorest parts of the world, it's probably the most violent, harsh thing he's ever said.
I think it played very, very well in his district. You could hardly go too far in villainizing BP down in New Orleans and southeastern Louisiana.
I don't think it was a calculated comment. He says it was not. He said it was born out of the frustration that he and everyone else in the area felt at the slow pace of the recovery in plugging the well.
But it served him well, I think. It put him where a politician needs to be in that part of the country, which was firmly on the side of, you know, the little guys against the big oil corporation.
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