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It was edifying to learn about Miss California choosing truth over prestige while putting that tub of goo Perez Hilton in his place. She may have lost the crown, thanks to the setup by that tub of goo, but I'll bet he and the Miss USA pageant will find themselves in legal hot water up the wazoo: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Yep, she's a winner in my book, just like the Catholic church lady who has taken the world by storm, Susan Boyle.

I can hear Miley Cyrus chirping, "That's soooo lame!"

I thought it seemed a bit premature for some of bloggers here to get all giddy and dish out  the "I told you so's" in the wake of the captain's rescue. I figured the other side of the story would wash ashore sooner or later. Looks like it indeed has arrived: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

If this report is true, then it would seem to go a long way toward affirming what the French president has to say about our president who has a cloud of constitutional eligibility concerns hanging over him -- certainly nothing flattering: http://www.thisislondon.co....

Wonder if Obama's own grandma would agree after being discredited for saying she witnessed his birth in Mombasa and is now being denied the truth once again by being forbidden from becoming a Christian by her own son: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Give her strength, my Lord, Kumbaya ...

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Haven't heard from Randomfactor lately. Did he go running off to hide under a shroud from embarrassment in the wake of the recent revelation about the Shroud of Turin after he had scoffed about it in the past, gullibly buying into the nonsense that carbon dating showed it to be a medieval hoax?

The British press, who often can't be counted on to deliver accurate reports, however, certainly redeemed itself after publishing news about a Vatican researcher finding documents that show it was the Knights Templar who took the shroud after the sack of Constantinople, protected and venerated it during the 150-year period that the shroud went missing. Guess that redeems the Knights as well considering the allegations of heresy that led to their demise: that among the idols they worshiped was a "bearded figure."

In a week in which the Discovery Channel aired all of its "Christianity is a big hoax" programs, including one in which the "experts" concluded that the image on the shroud is actually that of Leonardo da Vinci, it's nice to know that theory has been shot up into little bitty pieces with this announcement showing that the shroud's "missing years" predated da Vinci.

And isn't it doubly nice that one of the original shroud researchers who had said that the carbon dating was the one little thing that convinced him the shroud was fake had changed his tune just before he died a few years ago?

Oh, yes, the news spread like a wildfire, to the point that Bill O'Reilly included a segment on it in one of his recent shows in which he interviewed Fr. Jonathan Morris, who had this to say:

"The church has been very clear that it will never make a stance about whether or not this is really the image of Jesus, but I have done research and I believe it is. People were already talking about this cloth from the very first centuries of the church and on through the Middle Ages. This has been the most studied historic relic there is."

A link to a YouTube video of the interview can be found here.

So there you have it, folks. Stay tuned for next year when the shroud will be exposed for the public, well ahead of 2025 when it was next supposed to come out. Thank your neighborhood Knight Templar for preserving the Kodak Moment of Kodak Moments. Go in peace.

Oh, and Happy Easter.

To hear Star Parker tell it:

America is in a crisis because the wrong people have been making the wrong decisions for too many years. Christian conservatives have an obligation to help lead America to it founding principles of traditional values and limited government. Christians must actively shape public policy in the country and inject our values into every part of our shared space.

So I would suggest that the naysayers put away their shovels because the religious right is not dead nor in a coma. Christian conservatives are not and never will withdraw. In fact, we are just getting started.

Lest their be any doubt about what she says, one needs only to see what's happening in Britain. Let's see if that spills over to Canada, and then to us. We'll be on standby to administer the medicine just like the Christians did to the Romans during the plague.

Catholics in particular are taking steps to keep America from going down that path and bearing bad fruits, waking up to the wolf in sheep's clothing that is Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama and letting Caroline Kennedy know that she is not fit to be an ambassador to the Vatican.

I, too, would be fidgety and squirming in my seat if I were sipping wine and nibbling cheese with the Party of Death crowd only to have my ears itched with some unwelcome scientific facts about embryonic stem cell research in front of a national TV audience.

Michael J. Fox and Oprah Winfrey literally were brain-fed into a conundrum by Dr. Mehmet Oz, prompting some commentary by Josh Brahm, director of education for Right to Life of Central California Fresno-Madera, in a posting on NCRegister.com: http://www.ncregister.com/d...

Nice to see a link in the posting to an article in which Brahm points out nine things that the media messed up about the Obama stem cell story: http://www.rtlcc.org/fresno...

This comes on the heels of a Harvard researcher and global epidemiologist saying the pope has science on his side when he recently stated during his trip to Africa that condoms have only worsened the AIDS crisis there. Guess that makes the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the church founded by Christ, two for two so far on some of the thornier issues confronting society, eh?

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If only we had more Chris Smiths in Congress, then we wouldn't be having so many problems in society as a result of those making the wrong choices such as the mob did when asked by Pontius Pilate whether to have Barabbas or Jesus released to them.

Behold what Smith had to say in an address to his fellow lawmakers regarding the stark juxtaposition that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put herself in last week when she made a gaffe in asking "who painted" the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe during her trip to Mexico a day before receiving the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in Texas: http://www.catholicnewsagen...

It's all on YouTube, with an introduction followed by the conclusion:

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