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December 2015

December 04, 2015

Some common sense on “prayer-shaming”?

If you read twitter, you've likely seen the "prayer shaming" debate over the last couple...

December 03, 2015

A few stabs in the dark at saying something of any relevance today

I have a facebook friend who right now is keeping track of which prolife organizations,...

December 02, 2015

What if diversity is our . . . liability?

Up to now, I've refrained from commenting on the protests by black* students at American...

December 01, 2015

Things that suck, #45: dementia

Yeah, another visit home. Usually, I try to keep the family stuff limited to cute...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Robert Dear = John Brown?

What if it turns out that Robert Dear was, in fact, motivated by the Planned...

November 29, 2015

Why did Dear shoot? We may never know.

Information is beginning to make its way around the internet about Robert Lewis Dear, who...

November 29, 2015

Wanted: an adventskranz

Yes, sure, in the United States, there are advent wreaths. I bought one from a...

November 28, 2015

Spike Lee’s sex strike: right solution, wrong problem

Spike Lee's new movie, Chi-Raq, models itself after Lysistrata and its "sex strike" plotline, except...

November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!

Open-thread time here. What's for dinner? How are the folks? (Or the kids?) No advice...

November 24, 2015

Why Trump? A facebook conversation

I'm copy/pasting text below rather than just the image, but this is what I wrote...

November 24, 2015

Girl Boy Scouts? 6 Thoughts

That's the latest, per Ann Althouse, linking to a report in the New York Times...

November 23, 2015

We're being told repeatedly that our failure to take in Jews from Germany seeking to...

November 22, 2015

Modernizing the “works of mercy” list?

Here's the website for The Cradle Fund, an organization which provides direct aid to refugees...

November 21, 2015

From the library: The Almost Nearly Perfect People, by Michael Booth

This is a very meaty book, and I've been meaning to write about it for...

November 20, 2015

Long Week, part 2

Wake, funeral, wake, funeral, band concert. That's been my week. Well, of course, this doesn't...

November 19, 2015

So what about the other 59,400,000?

According to the UNHCR (here, and a PDF report here), there are 59,500,000 refugees and...

November 18, 2015

A few (more) words on the refugee issue

Hey, have you read any recent updates on Venezuela? Last I checked, the shelves were...

November 18, 2015

Hey, guys, I’m not particularly worried about ISIS-infiltrators in the refugee community

Should we halt refugee resettlement from Syria due to concerns about ISIS-infiltrators? Here's a recent...

November 17, 2015

5 favorite things about Elizabeth of Hungary

It's the feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 - 1231), who, I might add,...

November 17, 2015

The fundamental question: resettlement or repatriation?

I harped on this back in September, for instance, in a pair of blog posts...

November 15, 2015

Starbucks? They’re pikers in the War on Christmas

Red cups, eh? Yes, some of us are outraged at the Red Cup Scandal at...

November 14, 2015

Yes, I WILL mourn Paris

There's a meme now making its way around facebook and twitter. The basic gist is...

November 14, 2015

7 morning thoughts on the Paris attacks

(Yeah, it was morning when I drafted this; afternoon now, after grocery-shopping and other errands.)...

November 13, 2015

Long week. . .

Started with the death of a friend, my husband's good friend, husband and father of...

November 13, 2015

How to make immediate legalization work

Give workers standing to sue, similar to the way disabled individuals can collect cash from...

November 11, 2015

A few words on Dutch moms

who have been proclaimed, according to the Washington Post, the "world's most relaxed moms," at...

November 10, 2015

I’m not watching the debate(s) tonight

But here's a post for you all to tell me what I missed!

November 10, 2015

Ray North

Have you ever googled a friend, not out of ill-intent but just curiosity, because they'd...

November 09, 2015

About that “generous atheist kids” study

It's garbage. Really. Here's the link to the study itself, as linked to by...

November 09, 2015

The “purpose of schools” and the “summer slump”

You've surely heard this before: we need to adopt year-round schools to end the "summer...