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Yes, February 8th and I like to remember her on this date – a fascinating story – originally Sudanese – a country that needs a great deal of intercession! Josephine Bakhita is also an intercessor against human trafficking Saint Josephine, pray for your homeland! St. Josephine Bakhita (d. 1947) was born into a wealthy Sudanese…

So we are supposed to believe a viral infection somewhat similar to a flu, and dangerous if you are old and/or debilitated, has killed a 33 year old otherwise healthy ophthalmologist?  Right. “An all-out effort to save him was unsuccessful,” the hospital said. “We deeply grieve the loss.” Pardon me for being just a bit…

The famous mystery and suspense writer – she and her daughter were frequent guests on Imus in the Morning. Led a very fasinating and at times difficult life – a widow in her 30's with five children. This is from the Jesuit publication America. Mary Higgins Clark, known as the "queen of suspense" to her…

Democratic leaders in the House called on their Republican colleagues in the Senate to run a fair and thorough impeachment trial instead of a farce as they did when they held impeachment hearings. "We demand Republicans take this seriously and not make this into a circus as we did," Pelosi said sternly. "I would hope…

Martin Sheen is a great raconteur. I meet him almost 20 years ago, before he was the President in “The West Wing” and spent a couple of hours with him. He’s a wonderful person. Gettysburgh came out in 1993 and is a very fine movie, although I thought Sheen was miscast as Robert E. Lee.

I suppose the lesson from today’s terrible crash taking five lives – life is always precious … and precarious. This was sent to me by my friend Jessica and is an article from five years ago. What most people don’t know, though, is that he’s (Bryant) Catholic. And that, according to a recent interview, his…

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King Jr.   I have read that the expression “I have a dream” was not in his…

Yeah. Vintage. Joe Biden: 'I'm Just Like You Regular Folk, I Put My Pants On One Arm At A Time'. OK it's actually the Babylon Bee. But it could have been Biden.  

Jamie Dimon is really smart, and very articulate. Well worth listening to, if you care about the state of the Country … and your $$$! This is part one of a two part series.

Well here you go. The United Kingdom's National Health Service is often held up (by Bernie Sanders, et al) as the gold standard for what we should have. It is much less costly. OK, but there's such as thing as the law of diminishing returns and also the expression "You get what you pay for."…