Tom Faranda's Folly

Pictures from August, 2022 at the Margaret Ferrara wedding in France! and    

No surprise that there would be jubilation over the assassination in some corners of social media. Leftists on social media blame the wrong culprit for healthcare dysfunction. America’s social-media culture is often debased, but it reached a new low this week with the online jubilation over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The moral … Read more

Good essay – not too long – in the NY Times.     "What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger" I rushed around the patient as he lay motionless with his eyes closed in the emergency room. He was pale and sweaty, his T-shirt stained with vomit. You didn’t have to be a health-care … Read more

Wow. Double wow. It appears that the now former President Bashar Al-Assad has gone to Russia. The rebel group seems to be backed by Turkey. This from ABC. The approaching fighters are led by the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias … Read more

The author is George Mackay Brown, a dramatist and poet, "widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century." Mackay was a convert to Catholicism and had a tough life. He died in 1996. Brigid choose the artwork. I've put the words below the poem. The very short video starts halfway … Read more

Whew. Judge Mark Scarsi issued an order Tuesday night acknowledging Hunter Biden’s pardon and strongly rebuked Biden’s assertion that his son was the victim of selective prosecution. “The President’s statement illustrates the reasons for the Court’s disapproval, as representations contained therein stand in tension with the case record. For example, the President asserts that Mr. … Read more

At the bottom of the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Of course if you are a progressive the answer is simple – people are terrified of “Trumpworld.” Excerpts below the link. Hallelujah! Bibles are a bright spot in books this year. Worries about the economy, conflicts abroad and uncertainty over the election pushed … Read more

Nice to know that not every Democrat in Massachusetts is nuts.  This is in the WSJ and there is a link to his Washington Post column. The chair of the local Democratic party committee called him a "Nazi Cooperator." “I’m done with Democratic purity tests.” This column recently noted the efforts of Rep. Seth Moulton … Read more

This was posted by Kristan Hawkins, the President of Students for Life of America.