Nellie Gray, Organizer of March for Life, Dead at 88

From Catholic World News 

Nellie Gray

Nellie Gray, the founder of the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, was found dead at her home on August 13. 

A native of Texas and convert to Catholicism, Nellie Gray was instrumental in organizing the 1st March for Life on January 22, 1974, to commemorate the date of the Roe v. Wade decision that swept away all laws restricting abortion. Until the time of her death she remained the main organizer of the annual event, which has brought hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists to the nation’s capital. 

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• U.S. March for Life founder Nellie Gray passes away (LifeSite News)
• Nellie Gray, founder of annual anti-abortion march in Washington, dies at 86 (AP)
• Nellie Gray, R.I.P. (National Review)
• Fr. Pavone: Nellie Gray was “a tireless warrior for the unborn” (Priests for Life)

The Obama / Soetoro Story Obamunists Want Removed from YouTube

See it before it is hidden like the birth certificate, school records, mentors, friends and comrades.

2016 Obama's America

2016 Obama’s America, a film by Dinesh D'Souza, opens in theaters throughout America this week.  The expose takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the Marxist thug who wants to redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, “If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?”

Additional information about 2016 Obama's America, theater locations and show times are available here.

Remembering the Significance of VJ Day

From The Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College

Consider this fictitious scenario: In the summer of 1950, President Thomas E. Dewey faced a national security crisis of extraordinary proportions—one that his advisors agreed likely would define his presidency. After beating his Democratic opponent in 1948 by a comfortable margin, Dewey received news that Soviet-backed armies in Korea, Hokkaido, and Northern Honshu had mounted a massive invasion of Southern Honshu, with the goal of unifying Japan under a single government. He knew that American occupation forces—under strength, dispirited, and still fighting insurgencies loyal to the emperor in Kyushu and Shikoku, as well as other scattered parts of the former Japanese empire—were hardly in a position to resist.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012 Finale

The Cadet Glee Club of West Point Performs "Jerusalem"

At the conclusion of the magnificent London Olympics, we can think of no more appropriate hymn this Sunday morning than the great British anthem, "Jerusalem," performed here by cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The hymn is based on a poem by the English romantic poet, William Blake.  Blake was inspired by the legend that young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a maritime trader, traveled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury.

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of god
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear: o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

A Proud Nation Should Not Be Bashful of Its Past

An Australian View of the Anglosphere

From The Age
By Chris Berg 

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr with Buddhist monks during a visit to Cambodia in March. Photo: AFP

 Our Foreign Minister can be very emphatic. Bob Carr told an audience last month it was ''too risky'' for Australia ''even to glance in the direction of talk of an Anglosphere''.

That is, to even think about talking about the deep relationship we have with the English-speaking world would be international relations suicide - like using the wrong fork at a dinner party. We would offend our neighbours and lose our friends.

It was clear who Carr was criticising. His speech didn't mention the Opposition Leader, but Tony Abbott is a big fan of the Anglosphere. Earlier this year, Carr's predecessor, Kevin Rudd, was explicit: Abbott's belief in the Anglosphere is one of the reasons he must be kept out of government.