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A resident of Flyover Country, Cultural Limits is a rare creature in American Conservatism - committed to not just small government, Christianity and traditional social roles, but non-profits and high arts and culture. Watching politics, observing human behavior and writing are all long-time interests.

CL is a regular contributor to The Constitution Club group blog, and writes on her religious blog, Beyond Sodality, from time to time.

In religion, CL is Catholic; in work, the jill of all trades when it comes to fundraising software manipulation and event planning; in play, a classically trained soprano and proud citizen of Cardinal Nation, although, during hockey season, Bleeds Blue. She lives in the Mid-Mississippi River Valley with family and two cute and charming tyrants...make that toy dogs.

• Cauterizing the IRS Bloodsuckers

  By Cultural Limits on May 18, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Now that the IRS flap has stirred everyone awake and even low information voters are at least giving national news a passing glance…. It’s quite gratifying to see the victims of the unfair and very unlawful targeting by the government… Read More ›

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• Unlike the IRS Guy, The Congressman Knows How to Play In Pandora’s Box

  By Cultural Limits on May 17, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  U.S. Congressman Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) delivers again. The man who regularly has great appearances on the House floor had this exchange with outgoing Acting Head of the IRS, Steven Miller earlier today during the House Ways and Means Committee hearing… Read More ›

• A Scandal a Day and Barack Obama Just Will Not Go Away

  By Cultural Limits on May 17, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  The scandal du jour on Thursday - the U.S. Marshall’s Service losing a couple terrorists in the witness protection program – would be laughable if it wasn’t downright maddening. How in the hell could a government agency lose track of people… Read More ›

• Scandals Most Fowl: Please, let the plucking finish before the roasting begins

  By Cultural Limits on May 16, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  To set the mood, take a listen to the Dead Swan in the tavern scene from Carl Orff’s incredibly pagan and sacrilegious Carmina Burana.  (The text is by a 13th century Benedictine monk who was laicized.) Once I lived on… Read More ›

• That’s What, Four Scandals in a Week?

  By Cultural Limits on May 13, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  Well, well, well. So, the Obama/Jarrett/Holder Justice Department tapped not just the work lines, but personal phone lines of reporters from the Associated Press (AP).  Their information regurgitators.  The great spin parrots of the MSM.  The house organ that self-censored… Read More ›

• Freedom of Religion, or Freedom from Somebody Trying to Convert Us

  By Cultural Limits on May 11, 2013 • ( 14 )

  

  Of late, there have been quite a number of rules/laws/guidelines – call it what you will – being put into effect that say “prosthelytizing” faith, as opposed to expressing it, is not to be allowed.  This has popped up in… Read More ›

• Until Natural Death

  By Cultural Limits on May 3, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  Yesterday, an article titled Doctor vs. Patient in Texas appeared on the conservative group blog American Thinker.  It tells of a bill making its way through the Texas legislature on the subject of end of life decisions, specifically “Do Not… Read More ›

• Nerd Prom? Hardly

  By Cultural Limits on April 28, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  So, the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner is now the “Nerd Prom”?  Still stuck in high school, are we?  I understand the moniker has been building for a few years, but this year, that’s the headline.  A lot of… Read More ›

• The BOLD and the Obamas

  By Cultural Limits on April 27, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Now that even the left side of the American outfield and peanut gallery have noticed that Barack Obama and his consort Michelle have decided to behave as if they are bona fide members of the jet set, it is time… Read More ›

• Bombing Is NOT American Conservative Style

  By Cultural Limits on April 21, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  After a week of media wishful thinking, hoping to be able to blame American conservatives who are armed true believers in the United States and Christianity for something none of us would ever consider doing, it’s time to address the… Read More ›

• Liberal Media Responds to Shame…Ungraciously

  By Cultural Limits on April 13, 2013 • ( 17 )

  

  Thursday, Kirsten Powers, one of the more reasoned liberals out there, wrote a blistering piece published online by USA Today taking the mainstream, liberal media to the woodshed over the lack of coverage in the hauntingly grotesque Kermit Gosnell trial… Read More ›

• Weapons Unlimited

  By Cultural Limits on April 12, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Now that the Occupier of the White House is using the families who lost children in the Sandy Hook tragedy as props to push the idea that guns kill people, rather than people using guns killing other people, and the… Read More ›

• Girls, A National Commodity

  By Cultural Limits on April 6, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  With the news this week that some judge who obviously is oblivious to the fact that everywhere else on earth The Pill is labelled a Class I carcinogen (not to mention causes all sorts of catastrophic  cardio-vascular events) ruled, as… Read More ›

• Of Fads, the Feds and Fags (are we allowed to use that word anymore?)

  By Cultural Limits on March 29, 2013 • ( 14 )

  

  [About Walmart] I personally cannot stand the place…my point is, that its the very same people who misunderstand the tenet of marriage, and it’s origins, insisting on a word that has been rooted in 2000 years of Judeo -Christian practice,… Read More ›

• Beware the Pit of Despair

  By Cultural Limits on March 23, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  In the past few days, as Reince Priebus’ “autopsy” of the Republican Party is sinking in, so, it seems, is despair among American “conservatives.” (Really, there’s no real intent on conserving what we currently have.  These people want a reset… Read More ›

• A Sign of the Times: the Spread of Meat Bingo

  By Cultural Limits on March 22, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Lest anyone on the coasts think that we out here in flyover country don’t know how to adapt or adopt practices from other parts of the world, the people of the mid-Mississippi River Valley have come up with a way… Read More ›

• Grizzly Truth Too Much for Alphabet Soup Networks?

  By Cultural Limits on March 21, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  All over the pro-life blogosphere and social media circles, the trial of Philadelphia “Doctor” Kermit Gosnell is making headlines mainly for NOT making headlines.  It seems that the in-utero child killer was caught murdering viable children, crimes for which he… Read More ›

• The Scandal of CINOs Biden and Pelosi

  By Cultural Limits on March 20, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  By now, all those who are pretty tired of the Papal Conclave, election and INSTALLATION (not inauguration) of Catholicism’s most recent successor of St. Peter – that would be non-Catholics, for the most part – have picked up that two… Read More ›

• Pope Francis? We’ve Never Had a Francis Before

  By Cultural Limits on March 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Now that the, ahem, smoke has cleared…. (What were they burning on the “not yet” votes.  Tires?  The world’s navies don’t have smoke screens that thick.) Wednesday, at about the right time, I happened to be at my parents’ house… Read More ›

• Red Neck TV Beats Out the Critics’ Choice

  By Cultural Limits on March 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In the last week, my family introduced ourselves to the hottest television reality show going: Duck Dynasty.  Being city folk, after a fashion, and not really being into hunting, we were all sorts of skeptical at first, but after laughing… Read More ›