Author: Tom Faranda

Stunning. And the NY Times editorial this morning said the IRS just didn't understand the guidelines.  

In yesterday's paper. IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked. That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There…

It's here. Pope Francis takes part in Rome's March for Life  

A friend told the Blonde man: "Christmas is on a Friday this year." The Blonde man then said, "Let's hope it's not the 13th." ———————————— Two Blonde men find three grenades, and they decide to take them to a police station. One asked: "What if one explodes before we get there?" The other says: "We'll…

The 800 martyrs of Otranto, plus two women religious; one from Mexico, and the first Saint from Columbia. Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's…

UPDATE: Tim's statewide ranking (they don't do the event much upstate) – According to this, Tim is ranked #4 in sophomore class. Cool. Good for Tim, who hadn't been throwing as well as he'd hoped recently. He really did well. First throw was 138', second 142', and then 145' 7". He broke his previous PR,…

For some reason, I kind of like this picture. The boy on Tim’s left is his friend Liam who had just won the long jump competition at the fourth (and last) Mt Vernon developmental meet for freshman and sophomores. And Tim had won the discus. Ugh, slightly different builds, eh? After the meet, Tim went…

Daniel Henninger's weekly column – the Gosnell murder case Everyone clings to something, and we now know what liberals cling to. But what do liberals cling to? Recent events have revealed two things. Gun control and abortion. ****** By now, many details of the accusations against Dr. Gosnell have become known. One will suffice. The…

The case of the young boy was studied for 14 years. The two sisters who answered her plea were Sister Margaret Mary Preister and the late Sister Evangeline Spenner. Both were sisters from the order that Bonzel founded, the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. The nuns prayed a novena, a nine-day vigil asking…