Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

Below is an excerpt from the opinion of  Judge Lawrence VanDyk in a recent decision of the 9th Circuit of Appeals against a rehearing of the case. Regrettably, it is a dissenting option. The estimable website proprietor Peter St Onge Ph.D, has written a better introduction to the opening of the dissent than this bloggerContinue reading “A voice of sanity with a touch of the ribald in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals”

لقد تغيرت الأوقات Father Rutler sent the link below, with an accompanying note, which follows: Muslims will not like this. They would have preferred the good old days with von Karajan conducting the Horst-Wessel Lied. This link is to an item on Norman Lebrecht’s splendid website, Slipped Disc with news that the Munich Philharmonic hasContinue reading

In a posting yesterday I wondered if a Detroit Democratic party official who quit her position, and the party itself, because of its anti-Christian positions, marked the beginning of a mass exodus from the party. While there is no solid evidence of an exodus yet, there is ample evidence of party members running scared. TheContinue reading “Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Democratic party?”

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has declined to renew conductor Andris Nelsons’s contract. The orchestra management offered the following explanation why. (Readers are invited to decipher.) [T]he decision to not renew his contract was made by the BSO’s board of trustees because, beyond our shared desire to ensure our orchestra continues to perform at the highestContinue reading “Andris Nelson, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is not rehired.”

From the Detroit News Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett announced she will not seek re-election and will not run for public office again, saying the decision is faith-based and rooted in her commitment to Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture. Whitsett said on Monday (March 2) she will remain civically engaged and will supportContinue reading “No secret what the Dems represent, and have for a long time, but brava! just the same”

The Chairman of the Ford Motor Company has presented His Holiness the Pope with a souped-up Ford Explorer. From the New York Sun The Explorer is built at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, which is the only automobile factory located within the city’s limits. Mr. Farley, who personally paid for the vehicle, pulled a few stringsContinue reading “An American car for an American pope”

From Fr Rutler, who asks: “Anything for Lent?”

(Note: the blog entry below is copied, slightly edited, from an earlier post by your Tatler on a spirited email debate among distinguished commentators on the merits of the Iran war. Unless the present leadership of Iran is put out commission for good, they will be an ever-present danger to the world. They despise allContinue reading “They must be destroyed”

Recently, your Tatler saw a headline to an article announcing, “The war in the Middle East drags on.” That came somewhat as a surprise, since the war hadn’t seemed that prolonged to this blogger. Study, however showed that definitions of words and phrases as we know them are changing, the result, apparently, of Donald Trump occupyingContinue reading “So much to learn in these confusing times”