Catholic thoughts

This came from one of my Catholic Email groups.  I hope others will like it as much as I did. Easy to get a place in someone’s address book. Difficult to get a place in someone’s heart. Easy to judge the mistakes of others Difficult to recognize our own mistakes Easy to talk without thinking [...]

Say No to Deadly Loaded Language

This came from one of my Catholic email groups.  I am posting it here because  I wanted to comment on it.  Editorial: Say No to Deadly Loaded Language. There are No ‘Abortion Rights’    ’During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.’ (George Orwell)    WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) – One [...]

A Challenge to Corporate Feudalism?

Published on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by CommonDreams.org A Challenge to Corporate Feudalism? by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg “[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of [...]

How The Democrats Can Reclaim The Youth Vote

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by CommonDreams.org How The Democrats Can Reclaim The Youth Vote by Paul Rogat Loeb If the Democrats don’t get the youth vote, they’re toast. That happened in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where young Obama voters stayed home in droves.  It’s an ugly conceivable future portended by a new [...]

British Ex-Spy Chief Accuses US of Hiding Torture

Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Agence France Presse British Ex-Spy Chief Accuses US of Hiding Torture LONDON – A former head of Britain’s domestic spy agency has accused the US of concealing its abuse of terror suspects, stepping up an MI5 fightback over accusations that it colluded in torture. Eliza Manningham-Buller said Tuesday [...]

The Source of Obama’s Trouble

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by The New York Times The Source of Obama’s Trouble by Bob Herbert The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on [...]

The Unpersuadables: When Facts Are Not Enough

Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by The Guardian/UK The Unpersuadables: When Facts Are Not Enough There is no simple way to battle public hostility to climate research. As the psychologists show, facts barely sway us anyway by George Monbiot There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: [...]

Muslims slaughter hundreds of Christians in Nigeria March 08, 2010

Children and the helpless have been slaughtered. JC Muslims slaughter hundreds of Christians in Nigeria March 08, 2010 Muslim gangs attacked three villages in central Nigeria and killed up to 400 Christians in pre-dawn attacks on March 7. “The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses, and then when people came out [...]

Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons

Published on Sunday, March 7, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons by Bill Quigley It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it [...]

Global Climate Battle Plays Out in World Bank

Published on Sunday, March 7, 2010 by Reuters Global Climate Battle Plays Out in World Bank by Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON – The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should [...]