Biden Insults Democrat Blue Collar Base

Sometimes Joe Biden says things that, were they uttered by anyone else, would make one suspect a double agent.  Could the Republican National Committee script a pithier quote for their opposition than this?  Here, Barry Soetoro's sidekick reveals what an effete snob he is, while insulting the Democrat blue collar base situated in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Jersey.  He also reveals the building tension on-board a sinking ship.  By the time this election is over, the Obama's and Biden's will be about as close as the Clinton's and the Gore's.

They'll tamp Joe down for a few weeks and chain him to one of Barry's teleprompters, but like Old Faithful, it's just a matter of time before the next wonderful eruption.  Biden is a gift to the GOP that keeps on giving.

Colorado Priest Urges Republicans to Reject Socialism

"The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with 'communism' or 'socialism'." - Catechism of the Catholic Church 2425

Father Andrew Kemberling, V.F., was invited to lead the opening prayer at the 2012 Colorado Republican State Assembly and Convention in the Magness Arena at the University of Denver.

Now if this good priest would just persuade the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to rid their legislative agenda and Congressional advocacy of the whole-cloth of socialism, and not just the bits they don't like ...

A Dad Like Jack: The Influence of Ronald Reagan’s Father

From The Center for Vision and Values, Grove City College
By Paul Kengor 

When we open our newspapers on Father’s Day, we expect to find something nice about dads—often heroic dads. Yet, for every boy or girl whose father was a doctor or Marine who stormed the beaches of Normandy, there is a dad who was more complicated; not a great dad but one still loved and had an impact, sometimes in unorthodox ways. This describes a father I’ve studied: Jack Reagan, father of the late president, Ronald Reagan.

Choir of Clare College - The Lord is My Shepherd

Right to Life of Michigan Endorses Gary Glenn for U.S. Senate

Gary Glenn

Midland, Mich. -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn received word by mail Saturday that his candidacy has been endorsed by Right to Life of Michigan.

Glenn has for twelve years been president of the American Family Association of Michigan, a pro-life and traditional family values advocacy group. He has also served on the board of directors of two other pro-life organizations, Michigan Chooses Life and Michigan Citizens for Life.

This week, Glenn condemned Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mi., and other Senate Democrats for the confirmation, by voice vote, of Roe v. Wade architect Andrew Hurwitz for the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. http://garyglenn.us/?p=957

From the Pastor - Religious Freedom

A weekly column by Father George Rutler.

The bishops of the United States have called for daily prayer leading up to the 4th of July to safeguard freedom of religion in our country. That freedom is tenuous these days. There seems to be a conscious attempt by the federal government, in speech after speech, to replace freedom of religion with freedom of worship. That is not as subtle as it seems, for while permitting ritual acts of devotion within the walls of a building, it would limit the right to express one's religious beliefs in public discourse. This applies to everything from displaying religious symbols to preaching and publishing outside the confines of a house of worship. In Orwellian semantics, soon enough even the commandment to love the sinner but hate the sin becomes “hate speech.” There are some religions, like some governments, that intrinsically are hostile to freedom of religion. Recently, a Christian in Tunisia was martyred for converting from Islam, and his killers chanted prayers against “polytheists” as they call Christians, while slowly slicing off his head. While this happens frequently, our own federal government and much of the media are conspicuously silent, for while they may not be interested in religious creeds, they demur from what the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom called “immunity from coercion in civil society.”

That Council said, “The Truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth.” To guarantee freedom of religion is not to suggest that “all religions are the same.” Such indifferentism is deaf to Christ, who declares that He is the Truth itself. God proposes Himself to us, without imposing Himself. “Choose this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15). But once one makes that free choice, the intrinsic power of Christ goes to work. Thus He can say without any compromise of our free will: “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you” (John 15:16).

In art, impressionism depicts how an object is perceived. Another school of modern art called Expressionism shuns objects altogether and uses distortion to express the artist's emotional state. Some secularists, even in high places of our culture, think of religious belief as expressionism, like Matthew Arnold who called religion “morality touched with emotion.” Soon enough, the morality goes, and all that is left is emotion, and shouting replaces creeds. The truth of Christ frees believers from the tyranny of emotion, and defies imperious attempts to exploit human need by replacing Mother Church with the Nanny State. Cultural expressionists may genuinely think that belief in God is just wishful thinking. This ignores the fact that Christ chooses us before we choose Him, as He took St. Paul by surprise. So the Apostle, among the first in a long line of martyrs, would say, “I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you” (1 Corinthians 11:23).

Trooping the Color and Flypast 2012 Highlights

Trooping the Color, marking the official celebration of the Queen's birthday, took place in London today.  The ceremony which dates to the 17th century includes regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies.