tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35129512024-03-13T08:45:30.932-06:00Where the Columbines Grow<p><p>An Amateur Classicist's Review of Political Philosophy, Theology, and Literature, with Occasional Reflections on the Age That Is Passing</p></p>Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.comBlogger1263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-57533440567986347912013-01-01T21:30:00.001-07:002013-01-01T21:30:49.478-07:00Denver-area pro-lifers, take noteThe 2013 Denver March for Life will take place Sunday, Jan. 20 outside the capitol building.
Mass begins at the cathedral at 10:30, while speeches begin at the capitol at 12:30.
Good things are happening in Denver, whether it is the Lighthouse Women's Center helping pregnant women in need or the Regis University Students for Life conference for college and high school students, held in October.Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-32503055311082889882012-12-24T22:41:00.000-07:002012-12-24T22:41:00.047-07:00Merry Christmas!
The Wise Men
by G.K. Chesterton
Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray;The way is all so very plain That we may lose the way.
Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore On tortured puzzles from our youth,We know all labyrinthine lore,We are the three wise men of yore, And we know all things Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-10777498101480839612012-10-04T01:06:00.000-06:002012-10-04T01:06:50.895-06:00Michael Carr, radical Log Cabin Republican, running for Colorado state senate
Michael Carr is the Republican
candidate for Colorado’s State Senate District 31 due to a vacancy committee
appointment. But his past remarks are a cause for great concern to anyone not on board with the LGBT political agenda.
I saw Carr speak at a February meeting of the Coalition
for a Conservative Majority as part of a panel on diversity in the conservative
movement.
Carr Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-53825855492745391532012-02-06T09:51:00.002-07:002012-02-06T18:13:39.238-07:00Colorado caucus resolution against conscience-violating contraception mandatesThe federal contraception and sterilization insurance coverage mandate is in the news. Many Catholic parishes have heard from the pulpit about the dangers this poses to religious liberty and public morality. The mandate’s narrow religious exemption does not apply to Catholic health care systems, charities, and educational institutions.
Religious colleges may even be forced to provide free Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-29563010019430413062011-10-31T17:59:00.000-06:002011-10-31T17:59:00.565-06:00American culture-blindness in IraqThe Telegraph obituary of career British diplomat Sir Hilary Synnott discusses his observation in Iraq of the revolutionary American mentality:
The CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] itself, he found, was mainly staffed by American policy wonks — “young, naive, pushy people” fired with a messianic zeal rapidly to replace centuries of tribal and religious rivalries and state control with Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-87857304743790283512011-10-10T18:23:00.002-06:002011-10-10T18:50:59.515-06:00Remembering Denver's Italian communityBefore Columbus Day became a time for Ward Churchill's followers to flaunt their self-righteous indignation, it was a time for Italian-Americans to remember their heritage and the faith which inspired their countryman on his world-changing voyage.
The Denver Catholic Register's archives remind us of this rich history, using the words of many local Italians themselves.
The Register's 1988 Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-28175164170521500972011-04-17T19:48:00.002-06:002011-04-21T12:56:07.914-06:00Fox 31 spikes $2 million quote about Tim Gill’s 2012 election spendingThe death of a proposed civil unions bill in the Colorado House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee deeply angered Tim Gill, the multi-millionaire gay activist whose smartly targeted campaign spending has helped re-shape Colorado politics.
Gill’s lawyer Ted Trimpa said Gill will now be spending millions more to defeat Republicans across the state, starting with GOP members of the statehouse,Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-52331181451969654142011-03-25T01:01:00.000-06:002011-03-25T01:01:53.898-06:00The pleasures of reactionThe master aphorist Don Colacho says: "We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers."
Perhaps he speaks of progressive critics who think they are on a march to enlightenment. They leave backwards thinkers behind.
Or perhaps he speaks of his admirers who quote him profusely and deem themselves to be part of a rising cognoscenti.
The Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-69826591620146455202011-03-20T21:07:00.001-06:002011-03-20T21:15:56.058-06:00Gerard Manley Hopkins Conference returns to Regis March 23-25Events begin at 6 p.m. Friday with light soup and conversation at Regis’ Main Hall, Room 333. Actor Richard Austin will deliver a performance of Hopkins’ poetry at 7:30 p.m.
Paper presentations begin at 8:15 a.m. Saturday in the same room.
Sophia University’s Fr. Peter Milward, S.J., who endured Japan’s massive earthquake, will speak “On the Silences of Newman and Hopkins” at 11 a.m. that day. Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-4215850106756169802011-01-26T19:26:00.006-07:002011-01-26T23:23:29.765-07:00Want young people at church? Stop your Sunday shopping.Sherry Weddell of the Colorado Springs-based Siena Institute has been doing important work on the demographic problems facing American Catholicism. She cites disturbing figures:"Roughly 32% of those raised Catholic have abandoned the identity altogether. An additional 38% of those raised Catholic retain the identity but seldom or never bother to show up. 30% attend Mass at least once a month. Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-65019705531000567142010-12-24T10:43:00.003-07:002010-12-24T10:44:58.542-07:00The Wexford CarolPerformed by Allison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma(via Western ConfucianMerry Christmas!Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-87122062706954818112010-11-04T20:02:00.005-06:002010-11-04T20:29:49.324-06:00National election poll stops asking respondents if they're marriedPeter Hitchens is fond of claiming that the actual purpose of polling is not to measure opinion, but to change it.More justification for that skeptical attitude comes from the Heritage Foundation. It reports that the National Election Pool (NEP) survey ...did not ask respondents if they were married. So instead we found out [2] that “Men with Children” preferred the GOP 58% to 40% while “Women Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-55446510100747316742010-10-19T16:28:00.002-06:002010-10-19T16:30:08.499-06:00Tom Noel on Denver historyThe University of Colorado-Denver professor was caught on video lecturing at the Denver Rotary Club:Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-28497363400200892722010-09-30T01:07:00.009-06:002010-09-30T15:19:18.927-06:00Activist media monitors Archbishop Chaput's Theology on Tap sessionLast Friday Archbishop Chaput told a gathering of the Religion Newswriters’ Association (RNA) he thinks many of them view religion as a backward social force. He observes a “seeming collusion – or at least an active sympathy – between some media organizations and journalists, and political and sexual agendas hostile to traditional Christian beliefs.”He sure knew what he was talking about!Major Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-16679913883920582882010-09-30T01:00:00.003-06:002010-10-01T12:41:36.806-06:00Archbishop Chaput’s Denver 2010 Theology on Tap: additional highlightsVarious selections from the Sept. 10 Theology on Tap featuring the Archbishop of Denver, which was monitored by activist media:“Anyone here who hasn’t noticed the despair in the world should go back to sleep, because you’ve been asleep until now,” Chaput commented.“The Church in the United States has done a poor job, a genuinely bad job, of forming the faith and conscience of Catholics for more Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-66241010003931358072010-09-01T18:17:00.004-06:002010-09-01T18:32:30.522-06:00The Internet is not forever"The internet never forgets" is one of those commonplaces used to instill fear, but also to comfort. Just remember the right Google keywords, we think, and we can find anything.This is not true. Various algorithms will bury that crucial web page after only a month's time.And human control can bury information, too.I say this because Wikipedia is now considering for deletion its article on the Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-19523265150718558152010-07-31T14:39:00.005-06:002010-07-31T16:00:44.182-06:00Thomas Molnar escapes utopianism. RIP.Political thinker and historian Thomas Molnar passed away earlier this month. Those of us who have read through past issues of the Intercollegiate Review and related periodicals often enjoyed his deeply intellectual essays on philosophy, tradition, and modern society.John Zmirak offers his appreciation at ISI, while Andrew Cusack pens his own tribute to Molnar. Cusack writes: "Molnar and his workKevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-24533421759611313222010-07-14T10:25:00.003-06:002010-07-14T10:30:48.072-06:00The crazed author cackles...A laugh break from the depressing topic below:via Summa MinutiaeKevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-70649734186533542652010-07-09T00:39:00.006-06:002010-07-09T10:13:58.435-06:00When the N.Y. Times called indifference to child sex abuse ‘heartwarming’…The Easter-time controversies over Pope Benedict XVI's handling of sex abuse flamed out quicker than expected. The New York Times' attacks on the Pope quieted down following reports of exculpatory information in its primary sources, criticism concerning poor and inaccurate reporting, and the revelation that some key documents used in fact originated with a lawyer intending to sue the Vatican.[1]Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-51025124164520487282010-07-01T08:24:00.014-06:002010-07-01T08:24:00.282-06:00Elena Kagan thought ACOG statement turned out 'a ton' better than expectedThe billowing controversy over Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's consultation with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has prompted several reactions. Some see the problem as so severe that it will sink her nomination: political appointees have no business advising a supposedly non-partisan scientific fraternity on their true positions.
Jonathan H. Adler at the Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-50725578858207763822010-07-01T01:35:00.002-06:002010-07-01T01:46:18.094-06:00Rebutting the is-ought 'problem' in five stepsAmong the many philosophical puzzles that can captivate the aspiring thinker is the supposed is-ought problem. Originating with writers like Hume, it criticizes the supposed fallacy that one cannot derive an "ought" of moral obligation from a descriptive "is."Obviously there is truth to this. Just because I am a blogger doesn't mean I ought to be one.But some internet denizens have seized upon Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-35239475855386704182010-06-23T18:34:00.002-06:002010-06-23T18:40:04.717-06:00Jacques Ellul on technology, freedom and moral judgmentTechnology will not tolerate any judgment being passed on it. Or rather: Technologists do not easily tolerate people expressing an ethical or moral judgment on what they do.But the expression of ethical, moral and spiritual judgments is actually the highest freedom of mankind....So whatever I say about technology and about technologists themselves is unimportant to them.It won't deter them from Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-27947443035893071482010-06-06T22:53:00.002-06:002010-06-06T22:59:54.405-06:00CIA has plants in state governments, Jesse Ventura claimsJesse Ventura's election as Minnesota governor was hailed as a refreshing change from the status quo.As an independent, he was soon trapped in the gridlock of a friendless capitol and quit politics in disgust.Now a host for a television show examining conspiracy theories, he seems to be discredited one-off. Any politician seriously proposing 9-11 "truther" arguments is doomed to become a footnoteKevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-15651771928213264842010-05-21T01:26:00.004-06:002010-05-23T06:24:39.193-06:00Does Tim Gill have an agent in the Scott McInnis camp?Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ chief communications director is Sean Duffy. A former deputy chief-of-staff for Gov. Bill Owens, Duffy supported the same-sex “domestic partnership” referendum on the 2006 ballot.A December 2006 article in National Review claimed that Duffy was hired for the referendum effort by Tim Gill, Colorado’s wealthy homosexual activist who with Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512951.post-22059828505019968082010-05-19T15:38:00.003-06:002010-05-19T15:41:06.026-06:00U.S. govt. commits $2 million to back Kenya constitution permitting abortion and Islamic courtsThe U.S. government's attempts to promote abortion are well known enough. The Cairo conference, population control efforts, and Mexico City PolicyLess known are the U.S. government's efforts to promote Islam, such as its ensuring that Islam was recognized in the Iraqi constitution.And now the Obama administration has combined the two efforts, in the president's ancestral homeland no less.The Kevin J. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907423156155669252noreply@blogger.com1