ASHES TO ASHES

Now I know why I do the things I do. Thanks to John Cleese's THE SCIENTISTS.

ASHES TO ASHES: A punk song about the great Catholic writer, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Waugh. Brideshead Revisited:(Penguin Modern Classics) Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Celebrate America with song.

“Let tyrants shake their iron rod, And Slav’ry clank her galling chains We fear them not, we trust in God New England’s God forever reigns…” “Chester” William Billings, American - 1770 Popular hymn sung by General Washington’s men during the course of the fighting in the Revolutionary War. There has been much controversy made in recent years about the Establishment clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Court cases have been argued over the “wall of separation” between church and state by organizations like the ACLU. The Ten Commandments and crosses and other religious symbols have been removed from the public square. Recently, a cross dedicated to fallen soldiers in the Mojave Desert was the source of a law suit by the ACLU alleging that it violated the separation clause of the Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that the cross could stay but vandals tore it down shortly after the decision. So, what was the intent of the Founders? To have a secular state that ...

ATTICUS by RON HANSEN (1996) Being on something of a “crusade” of reading and discovering Catholic authors, I have been determined to discover as many contemporary Catholic/Christian writers of realistic fiction as possible. Tolkien, Lewis, Sayers, O'Connor and Percy have been written about elsewhere and are generally considered to be part of the 20th Century Christian writers cannon. But has anyone carried on this tradition? Are there Catholics who still write quality fiction? And are there writers who go outside the confines of a parish or monastery or church to grapple with modern problems of living a life of faith in an increasingly secular world? Writers who are, as I like to call it, “informed by their faith”, are those who bring a Catholic Christian world view to their writing much as Grahame Green and Evelyn Waugh did in much of their writing. While rarely writing directly about the Church and their faith from the inside, nonetheless, their writing was deeply Catholic i...

Most troubling is San Francisco's reaction after some of the horrendous crimes committed there by illegals, especially the Bologna murders in 2008.Now they are planning on giving illegals the right to vote in school board elections!