Virginia Right!

It looks like the heroes of my youth are fading off into the sunset.  But the ideas of Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher will endure forever. I could hardly improve upon the thousands of columns on the late PM but I honoured Baroness Thatcher by listening to this speech which could [...]

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I had a nice article written about my thoughts about the next Pope and I think the Holy Spirit said:  I wouldn’t do that.  So, trying to be obedient, I discarded it.  (For the record, I like the cardinal from Hungary and for former secretary of Pope John Paul II, now the Archbishop of Krakow [...]

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I was stunned by the abdication (called resignation) of Pope Benedict XVI.  I have admired Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger for many years.  He did a super job as Pope John Paul II’s defender of Catholic doctrine.  In light of John Paul’s emphasis on defending and advancing the central doctrines of the Church (I am not Catholic [...]

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There is a very thoughtful article right here in the UK Independent from Yasman Alibhai-Brown on the idea of a “centre” at Oxford University named after former PM Margaret Thatcher.  Alibhai-Brown feels that it would debase the university for it to take the money to do the center named after Baroness Thatcher: An academic centre [...]

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Today, December 26, 2011 is the 20th anniversary of the greatest miracle of the century:  The dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  The USSR was truly, as Ronald Reagan once put it, the evil empire.  The dissolution of this tyrannical state was truly a miracle from God.  There is no other response from [...]

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Is Halloween over?  Every time zone covered?  PHEW!  I am always glad that’s over. Today is All Saints Day.  I nod to my Catholic brethren today in their use of this special day to remember those who came before us in the faith, who believed in God and Jesus and lived the life, too.  They [...]

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I received a useful comment from a fellow blogger from Carroll County (I have since heard from another Carroll County resident who may be the author of the other anti-present administration blog in Carroll County!) about my use of the term “Prague Spring” to describe the changes in Carroll County. First, let me thank my [...]

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It was exciting to be a blogger at the Virginia Tea Party Convention on its first day.  I got to get my credentials at the Media section not the ordinary registration table (even though a great lady named Jane waited on me at the table until they found out I was a blogger – sent [...]

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The young turks series took a lot out of me:  Now that I am over the midlife crisis from these articles (!), I wondered what we can draw from them?  I will add the series was well-received although I am not scheduled for lunch with Rory Stewart yet!  So what can conservatives and libertarians learn from this?  Let [...]

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