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Rule 5 Sunday: The Last Champion of Cracker Barrel : The Other McCain
Posted on | August 25, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho How about them barrels? When you’ve changed the menu from fresh traditional food to precooked preheated predigested slop…when you’ve changed the funky old architecture to some…
Will Trump go to heaven?
President Trump drew guffaws from the sophisticates of the mainstream media this week, when he revealed that his motivations for seeking peace in Ukraine might go beyond his—or even the nation’s—interests. ”I want to try and get to heaven, if…
Cardinal Burke has a private audience with Leo XIV
America’s Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been warmly received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Although details of the conversation have not been made public, the meeting is widely regarded as highly significant. For…
Whither the Church in the U.S.?
As the number of Catholics in the U.S. has grown by 40 percent in the past 40 years – from 48 million to 67 million – new hubs of Catholic life have emerged, ranging from booming major metro areas to smaller communities that are punching well…
Pope Leo reaches out to Ukraine’s Zelensky on Independence Day
Marking Ukraine’s Independence Day (celebrating the anniversary of freedom from Soviet control in 1991), Pope Leo XIV pledged his prayers for the Ukrainian people in a message to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and encouraged Catholics to respond…
On Not Giving Extremely Little
During his recent “Address to the Participants in the Social Week of Peru,” Pope Leo made some observations well worth noting: “Let us understand that all social action of the Church must have as its center and goal the proclamation of the…
What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like : The Other McCain
Posted on | August 24, 2025 | No Comments Devon Hogan Flanagan (right) in Newport, Rhode Island This was one of those “viral video” stories that I was going to let pass by without comment, until I got the details from Miranda Devine’s column in…
FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft : The Other McCain
Posted on | August 24, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho I’m actually feeling pretty good about the upcoming 1974 draft in Pete’s league. Aside from having given away my second-round pick for Steve Braun (boy, that was dumb) I have a…
Mayorship Of New York To Be Awarded To First Candidate Who Can Bench Press The Bar
NEW YORK CITY — New York City has moved to adopt a new system whereby the mayorship will be awarded to the first candidate who can bench press the bar.The contest promises to be exciting, with oddsmakers giving Zohran Mamdani a fifty percent…
Trump Orders Visa Review Of Anyone With One Of Those Squiggly Line N’s In Their Name
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of the administration's ongoing effort to remove illegal immigrants, President Trump has ordered the visa status reviewed of anyone with one of those weird "squiggly line n's" in their name.In…