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Email for this website: sthand@email.com Stephen Hand, editor. Reporter, Assistant News Director and News Director for several radio stations in New York and Connecticut. Paralegal. PCA in Retirement. Contributor for various Catholic newspapers and publications.

NYT Reporter: Trump “Way More Effective” in Second Term

During a conversation on “Washington Week with the Atlantic,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire, and The New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager were discussing President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and private donors would foot the bill for a new ballroom costing $200 million at the White House. “I mean, he’s planning… Read More NYT Reporter: Trump “Way More Effective” in Second Term

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Lust

By Robert Coles | New Oxford Review | In our time lust is far from a secret or hidden part of ourselves; rather, it is an everyday and evident companion, ever ready to connect with us — urged on us in advertisements, on talk shows, in the movies and on television: sexuality and sensuality and desire… Read More Lust

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Being and Bunk.

Apropos of everything: Because Martin Heidegger forsook his early roots in Thomistic [objective] Christian philosophy, the unapologetic Nazi who enjoyed philosophy was forced to create a new and eccentric philosophical superstructure [undecipherable and irrelevant to most human beings] to dodge the consequent existential void. It was necessary because his system toppled the Holy Trinity in… Read More Being and Bunk.

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Blessed is the One Whose Sins Are Forgiven

You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. “… Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;    wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness;    let the bones you have crushed rejoice.Hide your face from my sins    and blot out all my iniquity. Create in… Read More Blessed is the One Whose Sins Are Forgiven

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Kathleen Stock on Wall to Wall Decadence and Roger Scruton

Stock on the related American jurisprudence: “it is bizarre to treat pornography as speech. It is a legal fiction“. “Philosopher and UnHerd writer Kathleen Stock joins Freddie Sayers to discuss one of the strangest and most revealing cultural moments of the year: the rise of ‘Bonnie Blue,’ the OnlyFans “pornstar” at the heart of a… Read More Kathleen Stock on Wall to Wall Decadence and Roger Scruton

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Damage Control Time For Alastair Campbell?

Apparently to deflect from his own long social involvement with Ghislaine Maxwell, Alastair Campbell has gone on the offense by intensifying his aim of targeting Donald Trump and ensuring that J.D. Vance does not become President in 2028. Campbell’s own confession is clear. “I knew Ghislaine pretty well and also socialized with her a bit…which… Read More Damage Control Time For Alastair Campbell?

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The rise of artificial stupidity

Digital media analyst Hito Steyerl in another context has stumbled onto important, undeniable truths. She writes, In this new age of artificial stupidity, technological disruption has turned destructive. Its greatest victim is reality itself. “This rise of artificial stupidity is the antithesis of, or rather the millions of shabby little cousins to, artificial intelligence. Just… Read More The rise of artificial stupidity

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No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’?

Recent events among some significant numbers of so-called “Progressive” Catholics, gleefully talking about the “devolution” of Church authority in our time, especially since Francis, has reminded me several times of something I was told by an Oblate priest while I was making a personal retreat in the late 1980’s. It was at the Oblate Fathers… Read More No More Traditional Priesthood, a Goal for ‘Progressives’?

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Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship…

Aldous Huxley on the Technocratic  Dictatorship seeking to be born. “…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old… Read More Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship…

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There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again

Updated. What is the political Left hiding? “The French Revolution is the model”.  In this long-overdue episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host Dr. James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two. In a subsequent episodes (Volume Two in this mini-series) he will… Read More There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again

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Iraq. The Geat Internationalist Tragedy in Context And Retrospect.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s lengthy and emotional response to Sir 2016 John Chilcot’s inquiry into the Iraq War, a war opposed by Pope John Paul II and millions of people across the world: “The intelligence assessments made at the time of going to war turned out to be wrong, the aftermath turned out to… Read More Iraq. The Geat Internationalist Tragedy in Context And Retrospect.

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Garrigou-Lagrange: Everything Which Comes to Pass Foreseen…

“Everything which comes to pass has been foreseen by God from all eternity, and has been willed or at least permitted by Him“. ”Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Prov. 19:21) Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange “Nothing comes to pass either in the material or in the spiritual… Read More Garrigou-Lagrange: Everything Which Comes to Pass Foreseen…

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Beginning Again. A Prayer of Forgiveness, Reparation, and Penitential Love.

“LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who revealed the infinite mercy of Thy SACRED HEART in saying, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you (Matt. 5:44), and again, Bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you (Luke 6:28): Give me, I beseech Thee, grace to obey these commandments of Thine and to… Read More Beginning Again. A Prayer of Forgiveness, Reparation, and Penitential Love.

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English literature’s last stand

Are the hegemonic fields of politics and sex destroying us? “English Literature no longer makes the top ten of A-level subject choices. English departments at universities are regularly closing. Studies show dramatic drops in literacy and reading, particularly amongst teenagers. A book and a discussion. Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline… Read More English literature’s last stand

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Deportations Under Obama

“During his presidency, Barack Obama deported over 3 million individuals, making him the president with the highest number of deportations in U.S. history. This included many who did not have the opportunity to plead their case in court. Yahoo elpasomatters.org Deportation Statistics Under Obama Total Deportations Barack Obama’s administration deported approximately 3 million noncitizens from… Read More Deportations Under Obama

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Will They Ever Stop if Not Stopped?

Wikipedia. “Since 2001, Palestinian militants have launched tens of thousands[1][2][3][4] of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The attacks, widely condemned for targeting civilians, have been described as terrorism by the United Nations, the European Union, and Israeli officials, and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets to be illegal under international law.[5][6] Palestinian… Read More Will They Ever Stop if Not Stopped?

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Intrinsic Evil

As charming, posh, so-called intellectuals (or, if you prefer, contemporary human monsters) in Britain and Europe+ speak of the urgent need to find ever more huge sums of monies (“you need to excite people”) for another “interesting” European war (this time against Putin), and as we approach the 80th anniversary the atomic bombings of Hiroshima… Read More Intrinsic Evil

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How to Respond If Your Child ‘Comes Out’

October 11, 2022  |  Maria Keffler. GospelCoalition.com | “It’s not a matter of if students will announce same-sex attractions and transgender identities, but when,” a Christian private school administrator told me recently. “I’ll be surprised if my own kids don’t wonder whether they’re gay or trans, given how ubiquitous these ideologies are.” We can expect a spate of announcements on… Read More How to Respond If Your Child ‘Comes Out’

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Dostoevsky on Socialism

Philosopher Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (1870-1965): analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s complex views on socialism. While Dostoevsky supported just economic arrangements for workers and the peasantry, he also vehemently rejected the atheism and materialism that underpinned so many socialist ideals. Russia’s great writer was a prophet, right down to foreseeing famine, cannibalism and the deaths of 100 million people that would characterize twentieth-century… Read More Dostoevsky on Socialism

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The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now “The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist,… Read More The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

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Did Pope Francis Deliberately Mislead Church Regarding TLM Survey?

“A secret Vatican survey finally surfaces—and it tells a very different story than the one Pope Francis used to restrict the Latin Mass. In this explosive episode of The Prayerful Posse, Raymond Arroyo is joined by canon lawyer Fr. Gerald Murray and editor Robert Royal to unpack the newly leaked document that exposes how most… Read More Did Pope Francis Deliberately Mislead Church Regarding TLM Survey?

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