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William Kevin Stoos

Copyright © 2020 William Kevin Stoos William Kevin Stoos (aka Hugh Betcha) is a writer, book reviewer, and attorney, whose feature and cover articles have appeared in the Liguorian, Carmelite Digest, Catholic Digest, Catholic Medical Association Ethics Journal, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Liberty Magazine, Social Justice Review, Wall Street Journal Online and other secular and religious publications. He is a regular contributing author for The Bread of Life Magazine in Canada. His review of Shadow World, by COL. Robert Chandler, propelled that book to best seller status. His book, The Woodcarver (]And Other Stories of Faith and Inspiration) © 2009, William Kevin Stoos (Strategic Publishing Company)—a collection of feature and cover stories on matters of faith—was released in July of 2009. It can be purchased though many internet booksellers including Amazon, Tower, Barnes and Noble and others. Royalties from his writings go to support the Carmelites. He resides in Wynstone, South Dakota.

“His newest book, The Wind and the Spirit (Stories of Faith and Inspiration)” was released in 2011 with all the author’s royalties go to support the Carmelite sisters.”

Most Recent Articles by William Kevin Stoos:

Obama’s “Adopt a Jihadist Program” Part 2: Gitmo Honor Graduate Resumes Career

imageSpeaking through an interpreter at an undisclosed location in the wilds of South Dakota, Said Ali al-Shihiri, recent releasee and Honor Graduate of Guantanamo, spoke with Stoos Views today about his promotion to head of the Al Qaeda network in Yemen. Recently rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia (at once the “ally” of the United States and full-time financier of jihadists world wide), al Shihiri expressed gratitude for his release from Gitmo, his Saudi patrons, and the new spirit of naiveté on the part of the United States government which made his release and that of his fellow prisoners possible.
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Pelosi’s Post-Partisanship War Crimes Tribunal

imageNancy P.D.A. Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the House and second in the line of presidential succession behind Vice President Joe Biden, made it clear in an exclusive interview with Stoos Views today that heads will roll now that the new administration has taken over Washington. But, at least some of them will belong to Democrats. Heeding President Obama’s Inaugural Address, in which he pledged an end to partisanship, she told Stoos Views that, while she is eager to prosecute former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney for “war crimes,” her witch-hunt will at least be non-partisan.
- Thursday, January 22, 2009

Gore: Record Cold Snap Is Actually Global Warming

Just back from a world tour to promote his new book, No, Really, It Is Global Warming! Internet inventor Al Gore talked to Stoos Views in an effort to address mounting world skepticism about global warming and whether Gore is indeed the savior of the planet. Stopping by Stoos Views headquarters in Wynstone, South Dakota, Gore talked to the reporter while lending a hand clearing the four feet of global warming off his driveway.
- Sunday, January 18, 2009

Obama’s “Adopt-A-Jihadist” Program for Gitmo Prisoners


True to his campaign promise, President-Elect Barack Obama, tells Stoos Views that he will order the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo in an effort to show the world the “softer side of the War on Terror.”
- Thursday, January 15, 2009

Chavez models new clothing line

imageIn a rare interview with Stoos Views, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, shown here with his pet parrot, Pepe, modeled a new line of clothing soon to be marketed by him under the brand name “Hugo!” ®
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Burris denied senate seat for now

Roland Burris, Senator-Designate from the State of Illinois, has been denied a seat in the United States Senate for now. The newly-appointed successor to Barack Obama reluctantly accepted the appointment by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, after expressing his total disgust at the “appalling behavior” [sic] of the Governor--who is accused of trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. His disgust at the behavior of Rod “Big Bucks” Blagojevich was apparently trumped by the fact that he, Burris, is the smartest, most experienced, most qualified person in the entire State of Illinois and there was no person in the entire state who was more qualified to serve in the Senate. Therefore, according to Burris, it was incumbent upon him to hold his nose and accept the appointment as United States Senator, for the good of Illinois, the United States and the world.
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009

“Free Palestine!” …From Hamas

There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews.” Golda Meir
- Saturday, January 3, 2009

A Clear, Cold Night

imageFor me, Christmas has always been a clear, cold night. I grew up in a small Midwestern town during the 50s and 60s. There was never a better place or time to grow up. Of that I was certain. And my perfect childhood was never more perfect than at Christmas. I had a Peter Billingsley, Christmas Story Christmas every year. I was that chubby little kid with the horn rimmed glasses and nerdy clothes with the three-buckle snow boots who wished for and got the Red Ryder BB gun on his ninth Christmas. My Mom always told me that “being poor” was the best thing she and Dad ever did for my brother and me. But if we were poor, I never knew it, for my childhood was a happy one. My folks knew how to keep Christmas well. They saved all year so that they could pile presents under the tree and make Christmas day a joyous time for two little blond-haired boys who waited behind the bedroom door at 5:30 in the morning anxiously awaiting Dad’s annual proclamation: “Well, it looks like Santa has been here again!” And there on the floor beneath the magnificent Christmas tree, illuminating the house and warming the living room with the radiant heat of 500 lights, and adorned with glass balls and plastic icicles, lay the cap guns, rocking horses, Radio Flyer wagons, sleds, paint sets and stereoscopes, chemistry sets and board games that would provide hours of endless enjoyment for us. Each year my folks vowed to cut back, and each year they never did.
- Wednesday, December 24, 2008

E.P.A. to Tax Cattle Exhaust

- Satire - “Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, introduced legislation this week to block the EPA proposal to impose a tax on livestock emissions under the Clean Air Act.” December 17, 2008
- Sunday, December 21, 2008

“MERRY X-MAS!”  From Your X-Customer

It was December of 2007, in The Age of Political Correctness. As I drove to town from my house in the country, I passed by the local high school with its brand new $10,000 electronic sign—used to advertise school events like sports, drama, musicals, or the beginning day of vacation. “Pretty cool,” I thought as I watched the time of day and school events flash across the screen. As I passed by, something caught my eye. The sign read:
- Monday, December 15, 2008

‘Are You a Minister?’

image"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Mathew 25:40 I will call him” Jack,” although I never knew the name of the grizzly, misshapen man who so painfully pulled himself around on two metal canes. He looked like a Jack. Before the accident that so badly deformed his body and damaged his brain, I pictured him as a wiry, muscular man--a tough, hardscrabble guy who didn't take guff from anybody.
- Sunday, December 14, 2008

Senator Dodd calls for his own resignation

- Satire - After calling for the resignation of GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner and suggesting that Wagoner “move on,” and in a refreshing display of honesty rarely seen among politicians in Washington, Senator Chris Dodd--Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee--called for his own resignation today.
- Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Flying Liberal Airlines

“Welcome aboard Liberal Airlines,” the captain announced on the loud speaker. “We will be departing for Minneapolis and continuing on to San Francisco. We hope you enjoy the flight and, once again, thanks for flying Liberal.”
- Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Doubts of a Saint

“[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ….” --Mother Teresa of Calcutta, letter to spiritual confidante
- Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Message to the Racist Coward in the Cave

I read with interest that the number two man in Al-Qaeda--Ayman al-Zawahiri--issued a web message and video which criticized our President-Elect and used demeaning racial slurs, referring to him as a “slave” and a “house negro” [sic] Once again, these cheesy “Al-Qaeda Cave Productions” video taped hate messages only serve to show how pathetic and ineffectual these cowardly terrorists really are. The fact that they resort to racial epithets serves only to show how ignorant they are about the American political process and illustrates the poverty of their position. One thing we do not need in America is the opinion of some loser whose life is devoted to killing innocent people--Muslins, Christians, and Jews alike--while dishonoring the Islamic faith. Add to their resume of murder and sacrilege, racial bigotry.
- Thursday, November 20, 2008

“Drill Baby, Drill?” No Time Soon

Today the sign on the gas station across the street from my office reads $1.87 per gallon. A couple of months ago, none of us expected to see gas so cheap again. Now that the emphasis is on the sick economy, the price of oil has declined precipitously during the past few weeks, and we have just elected a new president, the once-important issue of offshore drilling has dropped off our collective radar screen--at least for now. But the issue is still the same, and so too the dangers facing the United States. If we continue to rely upon foreign oil produced in large measure by countries that do not like us much or, worse yet, are avowed enemies, then we remain politically, militarily, and economically vulnerable.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dining with the Devil

“The Mennonite Central Committee, the Quakers, the World Council of Churches, Religions for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee are sponsoring an Iftar dinner meeting with Islamo-Nazi, anti-Semite President Ahmadinejad of Iran in New York City.” September 25, 2008. “Hezbollah recently purchased 3,000 missiles and RPGs from Russia’s Bazalt. Tehran paid for the weapons.” Debka, November 2, 2008. “Iranian state-run media announced the testing of long- and medium-range missiles, including the Shahab-3, which is able to hit targets up to 1,250 miles away.” November 12, 2008.
- Friday, November 14, 2008

Bass Fishing in the end times

“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36) “Many false prophets and false messiahs will appear...and deceive...even the elect." (Matthew 24:24).
- Friday, November 14, 2008

Ivan’s Red Star Station

In 1981 when I was writing for Bill Loeb I wrote a piece about how the news of a Russian pipeline to Europe portended trouble. Remarkably, fast forwarding to the present, Russia is now using oil as a political weapon and Germany is largely dependent on them now---
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Woodcarver

imageThe Holy Mother stands silently, frozen in time, gazing softly at the Infant on her right hip. Her left hand gently gathers the soft folds of her flowing robe. She wears a crown. It is not gaudy or bejeweled. It is regal, yet understated. The Baby holds a small cluster of tiny, perfectly carved grapes in His tiny, perfectly carved fingers. His soft, tight locks hug His tiny head. His facial features are gentle and kind. He smiles sweetly, His nose and eyes no bigger than a pinhead. It is hard to imagine how the oak that I cannot drive a nail through can be fashioned with such minute precision. The statue is exquisite, delicate, and perfect. Carved from a 500-year-old oak beam salvaged from a Catholic church destroyed by war, it is the most beautiful carving I have ever seen. Each time I gaze at the holy pair I am reminded of the grizzled old man whose love found expression in that old oak beam.
- Friday, November 7, 2008

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