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July 2012

July 31, 2012

A Divided Church and a Movement with Momentum

(Image courtesy of shutterstock.com) Over at Egregious Twaddle, Joanne McPort asks (and answers) whether the...

July 27, 2012

BREAKING: Feds Halt HHS Mandate Enforcement on Small Business Owner

The Newland Family employ about 250 people in their small business, and they try to...

July 25, 2012

The Cross! The Flag! My Eyes! My Offended Eyes! – UPDATED: Franciscan Responds

Fond as she is of Egregious Twaddle, Joanne finds some more and she sounds a...

July 23, 2012

The Aurora Shooter: Image of Loss – UPDATED

We all know his name, but I prefer not to use it in a public...

July 20, 2012

Aurora Slaughter and the Enthralled Tribes of America

Via How overly-enthralled we are becoming to our ideological tribes? Enough, perhaps, to wonder if...

July 18, 2012

Peek-a-Boo, Mr. President. We see you.

Back in October of 2009 I asked, Does Obama Know Who We Are? Obama is...

July 17, 2012

Dating, “going out”, “seeing…” it’s so confusing!

When my niece was a teenager, I couldn't tell which (or if any) of the...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

SCOTUS Ruling: Bring on Kate Smith & Reactions UPDATED

:::Welcome Instapundit readers::: Please check out my update, which wonders whether Obama just got waved...

June 27, 2012

Mandates, the IDEA of America and the Worrisome Line

Someone wondered why I seem less plugged in to the "Fortnight for Freedom" than he...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney and the Credentialists – UPDATES

Although I use it during the day mostly to promote Patheos writers, after hours I...

April 11, 2012

Caine’s Arcade: Resourceful, Can-do Stuff

Andrew Malcolm slipped this into twitter last night and it just completely charmed me. Young...

April 09, 2012

American Heretics Abounding

In my First Things column of last week, I quoted a small portion from Ross...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

If there is no more “good faith”. . .

...then how do we proceed as a nation? That's essentially the question I am posing...

March 05, 2012

Dear Press: The Seniors Don’t Believe You Anymore

Yesterday we talked a little about the dialogue between David Gregory and Newt Gingrich, and...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

Bishops to ‘Bam: “Nice first step…” -UPDATED

Rocco Palmo at Whispers in the Loggia has it: BISHOPS STUDYING INITIAL WHITE HOUSE MOVEMENT...

February 08, 2012

Did Daley leave WH because of the HHS Mandate?

Found over at New Advent (which you should be visiting every day!) there is this...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

Kim Jong Il is Dead; New Tyrants Come

While you were sleeping our already-roiling world took another hit to its tenuous stability: North...

December 02, 2011

Pelosi and the “Lobbying” Bishops

I read this and couldn't stop laughing. And I don't know why I was laughing...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Fulfilling God’s Longings for Us

We don't often picture God has having a longing for our sake; the image is...

November 16, 2011

Religious Persecution in the USA? – UPDATED

(Photo: Saturday Evening Post) Yesterday I linked to several stories that outlined the growing tension...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

Calling and Revolution and Calling UPDATED

(Photo: APF/Getty) My piece today at First Things is a little odd, I think. In...

October 12, 2011

Breyer and Scalia Worth Watching -UPDATED

This article in Slate was intriguing: The bear joke is a Scalia classic...“The story is...

October 07, 2011

Faraway, So Close

I really like Joseph Susanka's column for today: Try as I might, my "Social Networking"...

October 05, 2011

Horizontal Schisms meet Vertical Hope

Every once in a while, something comes across the desk or email and and it...

October 04, 2011

Constitutional Erosion: Freedom of Religion UPDATES

Over at First Things, I'm wondering about the apparent tag-teaming of the church by legislators...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Branding 3 year-olds as Haters, for Life

I'd guess this is the absurd and disspiriting levels to which unchecked political-correctness and a...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

Bloomberg: No Clergy, No FDNY -UPDATE

So, let me get this straight, just so we're all on the same page, here....

August 07, 2011

"So, we can't laugh at Canada, anymore?"

Discussing the S&P downgrade with a young person today, I mentioned this chart, showing the...

April 2011

April 03, 2011

Just in Time? Just in Case

Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds has written a thoughtful piece about inventories and happenstance, for the Washington...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

The Audacity of Wonder – UPDATED

Illustration Source) Over at First Things, my Tuesday Column is looking at our mania for...