I got hooked on reading “The Economist” — a well-written, truly global English perspective on current events that may be the last reminder of how well the English can think when they’re not swamped in post-modernist crypto-socialism — and they made my day by echoing the thoughts I tried to express in this previous post […]

Oh dear. File this under “Watch out what you pray for.” There’s an article in this month’s Atlantic Monthly called “Can Jesus Save Hollywood? From The Passion of the Christ to The Chronicles of Narnia, the Christian audience is making spirits rise.” It claims that after the success of “Passion” and the presumed success of […]

Kind of an odd Thanksgiving weekend. We were in the small town of Jean, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day for a meet-up with Greg’s folks, and in Las Vegas on Friday. We had been thinking in terms of this being a stay-at-home Thanksgiving, but on Monday, Greg caught the see-the-folks bug. I completely understand — I’m […]

This all came and went so fast I forgot to even mention it. Story from Saturday: The House last night overwhelmingly voted down a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Just to be very clear:

On Thursday, Democrat Rep. John P. Murtha proposed that we pull out of Iraq over the next six months.
On Friday, two […]

Everyone has people to spend money on in the weeks ahead. Everyone has charities requesting funds. But any that can, consider sending something to these fellow travelers.

Saint Theophan the Recluse’ 19th century book “Unseen Warfare” is a classic of Orthodox literature, but it is a very difficult read, both because of some archaic language and styling and because it is just very profound material written by a great spiritual warrior. Father Sparks has refashioned the book into three books — “Victory […]

This was from an e-mail discussion with a friend, and Greg-the-husband thought it merited its own blog entry. Hey, who am I to argue? If the poll numbers are to be believed, just about everyone thinks that it’s time to leave Iraq, admit the whole thing was a failure and blame Bush. I’m not saying […]

Snow? What snow? It’s a late-late fall fake-out. Today it’s in the 50’s, but the sun is out and the sky is postcard-blue. We’re all supposed to believe that this is winter, and then scream like frightened children when the real thing hits. Yep, been there.
Well, it’s too pretty of a day to stay […]

I’m home sick today. Well, since I work at home, the first part of that is extraneous. But because I’m sipping broth soups and tea, I gave myself the day off, which means I get to hit the blogosphere. Lots out there:

Hugh Hewitt sums up the changes in the landscape that led Pennsylvania voters to […]

I spoke too soon when I said that I was surprised that Kerry hadn’t used the opportunity of being obliquely referred to in Bush’s speech as an opportunity to proclaim himself back on the comeback trail.
Apparently, that’s exactly what he did:
By singling out Kerry as the Democrats’ leading Iraq war critic, aides to the Massachusetts […]