Okay, with great effort I wrest myself away from dancing on the graves of the doom-sayers, because it’s worth rising above for just long enough to note the voters of Iraq:

* Threatened with “a blood bath” from the insurgents, they came to vote in the millions

“I am not afraid,” said Samir Khalil Ibrahim. “This is […]

Well, it looks from this news like we’ve taken over a few other hostile territories

The French government, which was one of the fiercest opponents of the US-led invasion of Iraq, hailed the vote as a “great success for the international community” and called the high voter turnout “good news”.
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Oh my gosh!
Oh for heaven’s sake. Can we re-do our own election day, JUST so we can vote out John Kerry by an even bigger margin? What an idiot.

I have been having a hard time keeping up with the Orthodox Convert list-serv that I subscribe to, but I’m loathe to delete the digests that have piled up in my e-mail inbox. Every time I finally open up one and start scrolling down, it’s filled with goodies like this one.
An inquirer asked, “How can […]

Definitely a miracle, or even a concatenation of miracles, like a Celtic knot. Name her after St. Patrick.

“Greetings, sister. May I sit?”

Okay, my chicken soup was making a really eerie noise in the microwave. It’s a wholesome, Republican chicken soup — homemade, relatively lo-cal and only in the fridge a couple days. And yet, a minute or so into the zapping process, it started to wheeze.
Seriously. It was making this low “wheeeee” noise that made Clementine […]

Went to see “Pink Martini” in concert with the KC Symphony Orchestra last night — what a high-energy, power-packed totally enjoyable performance. And boy, do my knees hurt.

Pink Martini is a group that’s hard to put an accurate description to. Their Web-site describes them as “Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber […]

Well, it was bound to happen. The Democrats are officially trying to crank up the volume on That Old Time Religion.
On Wednesday, the very liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) went to the National Press Club and proclaimed the need for Democrats to talk more about values and said it was useful that a Democratic […]

January 24 is the 32nd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and there is a March for Life planned in Washington DC. Orthodixie will be there, and for those who can’t, he includes a link to the service his mission will do.
… we humbly pray, according to Thy unfailing promise: grant the inheritance of Thy kingdom […]