Author: Tom Faranda
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Ben Sasse: Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl
The Wall Street Journal has a new free online newsletter with a variety of opinion pieces. Ben Sasse is the former Republican Nebraska Senator who is terminally ill with stage four cancer, but still is functional. Former Senator Sasse announces terminal cancer. Below is his column about civility; hit the link for the full column.…
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Senator Fetterman on his harshest critics
This is a zero surprise. Fetterman a rare thoughtful, moderate Democrat politician. So it’s obvious who spews hate. Shows you how clueless Dana Bash is, working in her little echo chamber.
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2,000 Notre Dame students attend Mass at outdoor ice chapel
Pretty cool (a pun?), built by two students. See the short video and hit the link below for more of the story. Starts to make up for this recent ND posting I put up. Another stab in the back from Notre Dame After 38 inches of snow fell on the campus, seniors Wesley Buonerba and…
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Friday cocktail – The Mudslide
Certainly a dessert cocktail. But if you like desserts, it’s good any time. This lady has the most common ratios, but most often a coffee liqueur is used, not a chocolate liqueur. We have used Kahlua and Tia Maria and slightly prefer the Kahlua. Other ingredients are the same as per below her brief video.…
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Books I read – my 2025 list
This excludes – two exceptions below – the reading I do professionally. And it’s a shorter list than the 2024 (14 books) list, to a great extent because much of three months time was spent on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routine – every few years – examination. (I am registered directly as an…
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Another stab in the back from Notre Dame
Not the first and no doubt won’t be the last. Quite a few years ago a professor there told me that the students were more prolife than the faculty. I know the largest Notre Dame campus club is the prolife club and Notre Dame always has a big turnout at the March for Life. Scroll…