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		<title>I&#8217;d Pay Him to Get the Checkout Lines to Move Faster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]></category>
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Libertarianism in my experience tends to attract the utterly graceless.  Add Jew hating to the mix and you get Massie.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Bernardine of Siena</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Apostle of Italy Saint Bernardine of Siena]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Chesty&#8221; Puller the Ultimate Marine</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/20/thought-for-the-day-1430/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Some men become legends after their deaths and others become legends while they are alive.  Lewis Burwell Puller, forever known as “Chesty”, was in the latter category.  Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1918 he would serve until 1955, rising in rank from private to lieutenant general.  Throughout his career he led from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open Thread</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/20/159665/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the West Retarded Might Be a More Germane Question</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Third Worldism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Idolization of the Third World based upon race and hatred of the West is a besetting sin among what passes for intellectuals in the West.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lawrence Charles McClarey:  In Memoriam</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/19/lawrence-charles-mcclarey-in-memoriam-7/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Lawrence Charles McClarey Birth:  September 5, 1991 (Feast day of Saint Lawrence Justinian) Death:  May 19, 2013 (Pentecost) &#160; [25] Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: [26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Never presume and never despair.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Every Day Should Be Memorial Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/19/every-day-should-be-memorial-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/19/burn-of-the-day-631/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you get into a &#8220;who has the oldest tree&#8221; battle with the US, you&#8217;ve already lost.  Trump is older than Red China.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Maria Bernarda Butler</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/19/saint-of-the-day-quote-2312/</link>
					<comments>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/19/saint-of-the-day-quote-2312/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Holy Spirit taught me to adore, praise, bless and give thanks to Jesus in the tabernacle at all times, even at work and in real life. &#160; Saint Maria Bernarda Butler]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  Islam</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/18/leowatch-islam/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Bob would rather eat ground glass than say a word against &#8220;The Religion of Peace&#8221; and its more frenzied adherents.]]></description>
		
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