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Your humble scribe appears in the “Both Sides” feature of today’s Courant. I am debating a Hartford school official on the wisdom of school-based programs providing contraceptives to teenagers. An excerpt:
“Distribution of contraceptives in the public schools will not lower the rates at which our teens become pregnant or become infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
The best […]

Time for a pop quiz on America’s favorite curmudgeon, Andy Rooney. Which of the following quotes are genuinely attributable to him?
A. “There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I’m consistently liberal in my opinions.”
B. “I am an atheist. I don’t understand religion at all.”
C. “We’ve got to […]

As we observe Mother’s Day this Sunday, each of us has an opportunity to be thankful for the gift of life, and to recognize and honor women who selflessly choose to nurture children. We are all blessed by that unique relationship between mother and child, for as the saying goes: 
No gift to your mother can […]

From yesterday’s CT Post:
MILFORD — The Board of Aldermen was poised Monday night to replace the strict ordinance regulating adult businesses with even more stringent rules based on recent court decisions.
No vote had been taken by press time, but the board’s ordiance committee approved the revisions after an hour-long public hearing that included language that […]

One of the most important Christian ministries in Connecticut was profiled in Sunday’s Connecticut Post:
There are no stunts or giveaways, and no ratings book at WFIF, the city’s only commercial radio station. The drive-time slot is filled by “Voices of Vision,” an inspirational talk by Bishop Jay Ramirez, pastor of the Kingdom Life Christian Church […]

Pro same-sex “marriage” activists like to remind us that the American Academy of Pediatrics is just fine with children being raised in same-sex households. The reminder usually comes in a tone suggesting that the AAP’s opinions on child rearing are of such magisterial authority that anything it says on the subject ought to be the end of […]

Last week I noted a Courant story on how today’s working moms experience motherly guilt despite a study saying they spend more “quality” time with their children than the mothers of 40 years ago. Yesterday the Courant followed up with a Q and A with Leslie Bennetts, author of a new book warning that it is […]

A Sunday Courant piece provides a local angle on a study we’ve been hearing a lot about:
Research recently delivered some good news to today’s mothers: They actually spend more so-called quality time with their children than mothers did 40 years ago, in the heyday of stay-at-home moms…According to a University of Maryland study, mothers in […]

“O happy fault,
O necessary sin of Adam,
which gained for us so great a Redeemer!”
–from the Easter Vigil’s Exultet
Tonight begins the Sacred Triduum, the three most sacred days of the year in the Christian calendar. FIC wishes a happy and holy Easter to all.

FIC wishes a Happy Passover to all our Jewish friends, family and supporters. Some background on the holiday from The Capitalist League:
The Passover story has many different meanings. One of the things we discuss during the Passover Seder (the traditional meal and retelling of the Passover Story) is that if our forefathers had not been […]