Archive for June 2011
The Summer of Hope
By Tom Quiner It began on June 2nd. The year was 1979 when the Alitalia jetliner set down in a land that time forgot for 123 years of its thousand year history. A Man in White with kind eyes stepped onto the tarmac. He knelt and kissed the earth. What was he thinking? How did…
Read MoreDemocrats push law that compels Catholic agencies to adopt to gay couples
by Tom Quiner It’s called the “Every child deserves a family” Act. It mandates that every adoption agency in the U.S. adopt to same-sex couples. If you’re a Catholic adoption agency, tough. Religious freedom be damned. Discrimination is acceptable against Catholic and other Christian agencies who are conscientious objectors in the new moral order being…
Read MoreWhat doesn’t Wikipedia want you to know about Benazir Bhutto?
By Tom Quiner I am acutely sensitive to what is considered news and what isn’t. Although conservatives rightly get riled up when news coverage is distorted, I think the bigger issue is what is (and isn’t) covered, and how in-depth that coverage is. The same goes with history. There is plenty of historical revisionism that…
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