Author: Tom Faranda

Because 45% of people pay no income tax – so raising taxes on taxpayers – hey, why not? This article originated on Marketwatch and was picked up by the NY Post. An estimated 45.3 percent of American households — roughly 77.5 million — will pay no federal individual income tax, according to data for the…

An almost 12 minute video.

Fr. Paul Scalia is a well-known figure in Catholic education. This is a rather amazing 15 minutes. You have to figure that Scalia told his son years ago that when he would be celebrating his funeral to be sure to use it as a time for evangelization.

Was remiss in not posting this several days ago, when I first got it. Pretty good.

A good video explanation with the transcript read verbatim. I think the whole thing is overblown.

At a party, at my house, on Bonitto Crescent, in Mandeville, Jamaica. Here are a couple of pictures from that era (She just warned me “Not again Tom, there’s only so much of that, that people can stand …”)- Treasure Beach on the south coast of Jamaica And here, about a year after we met,…

Do-able, but hard. A short, worthwhile article. for the new study, which was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the McMaster researchers rounded up 40 overweight young men who were willing to commit to an intensive weight-loss program and divided them in half. All of the young men began a diet in which…

Nice rememberance and funny little vignette by Kelly at the end.  

Here are the intrepid, bundled up Midnight Runners brought in food and clothes. This is the Citicorp building stop where there were about 30 people, who were sheltering in St. Peter’s ELCA Church, which is right behind them. The young lady on the right evidently didn’t get the “wear brown” memo.

A big loss. The sharpest mind on the Supreme Court and who believed that laws should be passed by legislative process, not come down from the Supreme Court, or the President. He was also the first Italian-American on the Court.