The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
I put a post on Dr.Desmet sub stack on Saturday, and got two responses. This was my post. I was born in 1965 and not until about 4 or so years ago I took my first amendments freedom of speech for granted. Being the last son of a WW2 vet that was shot in the back you would think I would have been more aware than most of how ultimately important the freedom of speech is. Most Americans don’t realize the importance of speech and the threat our country is under. A quote from Harry Truman, “once a g…
The leftys that respond this way (jailing is violence) seem to have no problem at all jailing conservatives who don't agree with them. I guess it's different when they do it. After all they are on a much higher moral plain than we are..... Just ask them, they'll tell you. /sarc
To be honest, there doesn't appear to be any way to stop the left from projecting what they are actually doing onto their opposition short of inflicting some kind of real physical pain. They appear so willfully ignorant t…
The first person who wanted me to say putting a person in jail is violent was dumbfounded when I said jailing a person for political speech or thought is violence but putting a murderer in jail is justice. He then said this isn’t going to work you can’t depend on other people for justice. I then asked a simple question “then should there be no justice?” and he abruptly said I didn’t say that. I said I know I just asked you a simple question. That was the end of the conversation.