By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

The first Father’s Day is said to have been celebrated on June 5, 1908. The first time the day was noted was in a Methodist church in Fairmount, West Virginia. It is among one of America’s most unusual observations today more than ever before because in the U.S. one out of three children is said to be fatherless.

Every Father’s Day I remember the adage that says, “Seeing a beautiful sunset is made much better when you know who to thank for it.” I always feel a bit sad when I think that millions of secularists don’t know who to thank. It always brings up the same question namely; who’s your daddy?

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By BARBARA CASCIO

A recent article stated that the gold “IHS” monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, reported by CNSNews.com .It was said that the White House asked the university to do this and so it was done.

President Obama was giving his economics speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, the ancient monogram — the letters IHS — that symbolizes the name of Jesus was missing from a wooden archway above the dais in Gaston Hall where the president delivered his 45-minute speech.

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By K. L. KRAEMER

Cher was on national television a while back sincerely asking why anyone would want to be a Republican. She seemed to think that if you were poor, black, or gay there was no place for you in the GOP. There are so many others like Cher, whose life isn’t largely political, who have concluded the same thing based on tidbits heard here and there.

It is to the Democrat advantage to keep people unenlightened, keep them armed with cliches and poorly aimed emotions and jealousies or anything else to muddy true Republican intentions. When anyone speaks out in defense of conservatism, then that anyone becomes an easy smear target. Fortunately, I know while writing behind my typewriter I won’t need to pick up and run from a pie.

First off, for those of you who despise Republicans, please realize the Republican party doesn’t divide Americans into categories and then claim to have a big tent because of all the compartments people can fit into. No, instead they truly do have a big welcoming tent that all Americans qualify to fit into regardless of race, class, or sexual preference. The only qualification involved is personal philosophy. Your own choice of personal philosophy, nothing else, is what should determine whether or not you will become a Republican.

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