Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Every Mother’s Day, several enterprising young thought-leaders try to include plant moms and dog moms in the celebration. Thankfully, they’re roundly ridiculed for comparing their pets to human children, or their caretaking experience to the challenges of motherhood. The selfishness of many (although certainly not all) deliberately childless women flares up at the sight of … Read more
A legal battle over two statues in Quincy [Massachusetts] raises the question: Must the public square be secular? TWO 10-FOOT bronze statues — one of St. Michael the Archangel, the other of St. Florian — are locked away in a storage facility in Randolph, casualties of a legal theory that treats the public display of … Read more
A new long‑term study from the United States has revealed that a significant number of women continue to experience deep regret years after having an abortion, prompting fresh reflection on how society supports women who face crisis pregnancies. Researchers tracked thousands of women over a period of years and found that around one in four … Read more
Many news organizations carried the story of the release of Bar Kuperstein two years after he had been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. Kuperstein was a young security guard at the Nova Festival, the music festival targeted by Hamas for its fat genocidal possibilities, with sides of rape, torture, and kidnapping. After taking some … Read more
Every so often, a cultural moment exposes something far deeper than a policy disagreement. That happened again recently when comments from Stranger Things actress Maya Hawke resurfaced online — remarks she made several years ago but which gained renewed attention amid the show’s continued popularity. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2022, … Read more
Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians. While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is … Read more
There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”: he said they’d found a brothel on the dig he did last night I asked him how they know he sighed: a pit of babies’ bones a pit of newborn babies’ bones … Read more
Over the weekend, The Lepanto Institute received a tip that the Joseph and Mary Home, a project of the Sisters of Charity Health System, hired an “abortion rights” activist to be the new executive director of the organization. The person who submitted the tip also emailed the Sisters of Charity, Marisa Rohn (the interim executive … Read more
Undoubtedly, it often happens that you try to correct certain depraved and dishonest people who are under your care, but every effort and concern is in vain. They are incorrigible, so they have to be put up with. Such incorrigibles are already in the Church. How then will you separate yourself from them so that … Read more
Stage two has arrived in our “How-Catholic-is-the-Pope?” quest. First we had the interview with Crux and now we have “Cupichgate”. Pope Leo was asked about Cardinal Cupich’s award to the pro-abortionist Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat representing Illinois. In fact Senator Durbin has since refused the award but we are left with the papal commentary … Read more
Contrary to progressive delusions, young people are not especially enlightened. Quite the opposite. There is an odd thing that many older liberals tend to say about America’s youth. As a member of Generation Z, which currently comprises those aged 13 to 28, I have often heard a similar refrain: “It’s you young people who are … Read more
Its reason for being is clear: to prevent and eliminate pregnancies. On Monday, a Berkeley-educated, Obama-appointed judge threw Planned Parenthood a life ring after Congress passed legislation that defunded the abortion conglomerate from Medicaid. Six hours after Planned Parenthood filed a motion for a temporary restraining order, Judge Indira Talwani granted its wish. This injunction, … Read more
No longer can Planned Parenthood rely on legal activism to preserve its taxpayer revenue. The responsibility now shifts to Congress to do what the states have started. Last week, the Supreme Court issued a long-overdue rebuke to Planned Parenthood’s legal campaign to force taxpayers to subsidize the abortion industry. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South … Read more
The inhuman campaign to cull the elderly, disabled and mentally infirm lives on in ‘progressive’ clothing. In a letter dated 1 October 1940, Helene M wrote to her father from an asylum in the southern German town of Stetten (1). An epileptic, Helene had been chosen for ‘transport to another facility’. But, in the context … Read more
It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral … Read more
JB Pritzker is progressives’ walking ATM. It is impossible to contemplate the political career of Illinois Governor Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker, one of America’s wealthiest politicians, without the starting point of a ten-figure net worth. He’s not a particularly gifted orator or a policy innovator, and his state is limping along economically. Yet, when Forbes … Read more
The Oracle of Omaha may be retiring from Berkshire Hathaway, but he won’t give up his other title — the biggest funder of abortion in history. After six decades, Buffett is retiring from a legendary career that’s made him the most famous investor in the world. With just six years until his 100th birthday, we … Read more
Dangerous policies, incoherent ideas, and amoral politics. The Democrats have responded to their repudiation by the voters by tripling down on the toxic ideas and preposterous policies that make sense only when one remembers that, as DOGE has exposed, in the end, they are patent grifts, opportunities for enriching themselves and their plutocratic, corporate globalist … Read more
A new law in Colorado frames abortion as a cost-saving measure — a chilling milestone in the logic of utilitarianism. Here’s a fact for people looking to move to Colorado. It’s one of the main reasons why some people might wish to live there, especially if they happen to be poor and pregnant. Which means, … Read more
Weeks after Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, we are now receiving frequent and unsettling reminders that neither of our major political parties has a monopoly on anti-Zionism or antisemitism. Over the four years of Joe Biden’s presidency, we devoted a significant amount of time and attention to the growing animosity toward Israel on … Read more
It is a truth universally acknowledged that people may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. If that wasn’t true for most of human history, it is certainly true now. And so it was that at the ARC conference this week, packed with giants from the political, economic … Read more
The backlash against Tate and his defenders isn’t about ‘cancel culture’ or policing speech. It’s that his lifestyle and worldview run counter to conservative values. Judging by their embrace of Andrew Tate, it seems as though some conservative influencers in 2025 are ready to trade in their familiar “Christ is King” mantra for a new … Read more
“The unofficial anthem of secularism today is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine,’ in which we are encouraged to imagine a world without religion. We don’t have to imagine such a world; the 20th century has given us horrific examples of such worlds.” Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I. Cardinal George warns US secularization is more serious than elections … Read more
Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible for processing and interpreting information, such as sensation, perception, learning, speech, and cognition. White matter is made up of axons, which are long nerve fibers that connect neurons together from different parts of the brain. In the study, male brains tended … Read more
President Joe Biden’s handlers want you to believe he values life. Just a few days before Christmas, the White House announced, through an online written statement, that all but three people on federal death row will have their sentences commuted from a death sentence to life without the possibility of parole. The move saves the … Read more