Father Orthoduck™ wishes to commend David Letterman on finally uniting both conservative and liberal women’s groups. Normally those groups work against each other on various issues, and rarely do they agree. Nevertheless, after a serious two-day personal effort, Mr. David Letterman managed to be so offensive that BOTH Concerned Women for America (conservative) and the […]
On right-wing wackos and the Dept of Homeland Security
In April of this year, Secretary Napolitano warned the USA that we were in danger from right-wing extremists. At that time she was attacked for having improper views of people with conservative political views and asked to apologize. In particular, she was pilloried because she warned that people with a military background might be more […]
President Obama’s speech in Cairo
Whether or not you agree with President Obama, it is important as citizens of the USA that we watch this speech and evaluate it. Some of us may fully support it. Some of us may be against various parts of it. Some of us may consider it a stunning breakthrough speech. Some of us may […]
On the Germans and financial responsibility
The next German government is almost certain to crack down on spending and drastically raise taxes after the lower house of parliament yesterday adopted measures that come close to banning budget deficits beyond 2016. Fr. Orthoduck wishes to comment that Germany is not known to be a very conservative country. The other way to put […]
On the boy who cried wolf (God) once too often
As you look at the cartoon above, realize that this is the point to which some of our televangelists have brought us. Some of them have the attitude that the Holy Spirit personally informs them of God’s plans. In addition, they cannot resist the desire to one-up those whom they consider to be either liberal […]
The unholy trinity
An evangelical blogger that I read every day just posted an article in which he speaks about the unholy trinity. He says: Someone wrote me the other day using the phrase “the other Trinity,” referring to evangelicals’ obsession with homosexuality, abortion and evolution. All are important issues, but does anyone else have the suspicion that we are […]
On the swine flu and Latinos
The Wikipedia has some interesting data under the article on the Black Death that swept Europe in the Middle Ages. It says: Because fourteenth century healers were at a loss to explain the cause, Europeans turned to astrological forces, earthquakes, and the poisoning of wells by Jews as possible reasons for the plague’s emergence. . . […]
Introducing Fr. Orthoduck
There will be a new “character” on this blog, Fr. Orthoduckâ„¢. Who is Fr. Orthoduckâ„¢? Sometimes Fr. Orthoduckâ„¢ will be my alter ego. He will be less well-behaved version of myself when he is in that role. He will tackle those subjects that are a little controversial or perhaps those subject about which I wish […]
The treatment of illegal Latinos
A new report  about Latinos illegaly living in the USA came out today that says in part: They are routinely cheated out of their earnings and denied basic health and safety protections. They are regularly subjected to racial profiling and harassment by law enforcement. They are victimized by criminals who know they are reluctant to […]
Torture and religious politics
Recently, the first of the memorandums on interrogation techniques were released. They make difficult reading. In fact, in language that is every bit the equal of the clinical language found in files from both the old Soviet Union and the WWII German archives, they describe in detail the painful techniques used to break a person […]
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