It is a good one.

Included in this issue:
Catholic Economics
Ryan Grant on Doctors
Philip Davis on natural disasters and God's will.

Ryan Grant, one of our regular columnists, has a very good take on the recent suggestion that the Holy Father would move the Novus Ordo Sign of Peace to a similar part of the Rite as it occupies in the Ambrosian Rite.

Over at Takimag Kevin DeAnna has a very interesting post about the Right, the Left, activism and direct action in politics.  He attended both CPAC and The Campus Progressive National Conference and draws some interesting conclusions about their respective natures.  Check it out.

Exhibit D: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Exhibit C: Louis Armstrong

Exhibit B: Jim Croce

This just in:

THIRD PARTIES ARE WEIRD!!

That doesn't mean you can't support one, it's just a statement of fact.

For Example:  You should look into the American Independence Party's odd fight over whether to disaffiliate from The Constitution Party and align with Alan Keyes new America's Independent Party.  The fight is actually kind of important (in a third party way) because it will decide which is the largest national third party.

Exhibit A: I give you The Righteous Brothers

Due to technical difficulties we were unable to get this up in time for the 4th.  However, it is still a wonderful song and the lyrics are still an engaging, rousing battle poem.  Enjoy!

The text of the National Anthem:

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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