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Liberal Fascism Rod Dreher has

Posted on January 16, 2009
Liberal Fascism Rod Dreher has a post on a map someone ran up that "mashes" the Prop 8 donor list with Google. I've spent a few minutes seeing who in Fresno donated to protect marriage in Fresno, and I spotted a basketball coach and the HR manager of the local Whole Foods...

The power to tax is the power to

Posted on January 15, 2009
The power to tax is the power to destroy A few months after Prop 8 passes, San Francisco invokes a novel theory to tax Catholic property.

Another blow to the Fresno economy Gottschalk's

Posted on January 14, 2009
Another blow to the Fresno economy Gottschalk's has filed bankruptcy. Sounds like a whole bunch of expensive office space in Riverpark is about to open up.

Great moments in child-rearing I've

Posted on January 14, 2009
Great moments in child-rearing I've seen this kind of exploitation of children for begging all over Fresno for the last several months. There are several "mothers" with their small children at begging for money at certain set locations around town. Apparently, though,being a publicly intoxicated father is what it takes to get police involvement...

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Modern Art What is this? Answer:

Posted on January 14, 2009
Modern Art What is this? Answer: Illinois 4th District represented by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D. Check out the other impressionistic tributes to keeping America safe from democracy.

Grant him a holy death Father

Posted on January 07, 2009
Grant him a holy death Father Neuhaus has received last rites.

Big Hollywood Andrew Breitbart

Posted on January 06, 2009
Big Hollywood Andrew Breitbart launches "Big Hollywood", which he describes as: ...a big group blog that will feature hundreds of the big minds from the fields of politics, journalism, entertainment and culture. Big Hollywood is not a ?celebrity? gabfest or a gossip outpost - it is a continuous politics and culture posting board for those who think something has gone drastically wrong and that

The Death of Mainstream Protestantism The

Posted on January 05, 2009
The Death of Mainstream Protestantism The California Supreme Court has essentially - as acknowledged in Justice Kennard's concurrence - returned to hierarchical principles for the determination of church property disputes. This means that California provides a major piece of persuasive authority for those declining Protestant denominations that have "departed from doctrine" and which are

How to Watch a Video I've recently

Posted on January 05, 2009
How to Watch a Video I've recently read Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" and I give it "two thumbs up." It is the kind of book that high school students should be required to read before they start their studies so that they can get the most out of their education...

Making the world new I've been

Posted on January 01, 2009
Making the world new I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop on the Raving Atheist's announcement of his conversion to Christianity. Hope is a transcendent Christian virtue, but not being taken in by a stupid prank - like that perpetrated by this dillweed - is a pragmatically human desire...

If only teachers could marry Clovis

Posted on January 01, 2009
If only teachers could marry Clovis girl sues teacher and Clovis Unified School District for sexual harassment. I don't know about the truth of the allegations, but since the point of this continuing series is to give the same treatment to other professions that is dealt out to claims against Catholic priests, presumably we should assume that the charges are true until they are disproved.

Why do polls show that people so

Posted on December 28, 2008
Why do polls show that people so happy here, Mr. Hitler This is head-smacking stupid on the part of Matt Lauer, and totally worth remembering as one of the great moments in bad journalism for 2008:

The Church of the East According

Posted on December 28, 2008
The Church of the East According to Philip Jenkins' recent book, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died, the true historical heartland of Christianity was Iraq...

Merry Christmas The Widget,

Posted on December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas The Widget, the Wadget, Boff and I went to the Christmas Vigil mass last night. This morning, we opened presents and the Widget and the Wadget are learning how to make their new Wii work. The rest of the family will be over this evening...

If only teachers could marry... According

Posted on December 22, 2008
If only teachers could marry... According to Worldnet Daily: According to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education ? the most authoritative investigation to date ? nearly 10 percent of U.S. public school students have been targeted with unwanted sexual attention by school employees, and in those cases, 40 percent of the perpetrators were women...

Democracy? We don't need no stinkin'

Posted on December 20, 2008
Democracy? We don't need no stinkin' democracy California's Attorney General Jerry Brown - aka "Governor Moonbeam" - asks the California Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8. Brown's last minute filing reflects an about face on his part and an abandonment of his duties as AG: Brown's argument on Proposition 8, contained in an 111-page brief filed at the last possible moment before the court's

An Improbable Life I've always

Posted on December 15, 2008
An Improbable Life I've always been curious about the journey that took the son of John Foster Dulles into the Catholic Church, where he became one of Catholicism's preeminent theologians and a prince of the church. This New York Times obituary provides some background: His spiritual passage to Catholicism was like a fable...

Grant him peace Avery Cardinal

Posted on December 12, 2008
Grant him peace Avery Cardinal Dulles has passed away.

Consensus More scientists dissent

Posted on December 12, 2008
Consensus More scientists dissent from the Global Warming orthodoxy than agree with it.

Book Club Ayatollah A friend who

Posted on December 11, 2008
Book Club Ayatollah A friend who know that I'm involved in a few book groups sent me this NYT article. Obviously, I'm smitten with the dissident member who quit because of the selection of the Da Vinci Code: The last straw came when the group picked ?The Da Vinci Code? and someone suggested the discussion would be enriched by delving into the author?s source material...

10,000 hours over 10 years That's

Posted on December 10, 2008
10,000 hours over 10 years That's all it takes to succeed at anything. [Via Wanderers]

No, this kind of thing could never

Posted on December 10, 2008
No, this kind of thing could never have gotten past our ever vigilant media Vox Day observes: A 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich, a Democrat, was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps during the last month conspiring to sell or trade Illinois' U...

Quashing those scurrilous innuendos I'm

Posted on December 10, 2008
Quashing those scurrilous innuendos I'm at work. Of course, notthatthereisanythingwrongwiththat.

Water is wet: Chicago politician

Posted on December 09, 2008
Water is wet: Chicago politician arrested for corruption Illinois Governor Blagojevich arrested for attempting to "sell off" Obama's senate seat. The complaint alleges: Rod Blagojevich has been intercepted conspiring to trade the senate seat for particular positions that the President-elect has the power to appoint (e...

Real Tolerance

Posted on December 08, 2008
Real Tolerance

Biblical Criticism comes to Islam The

Posted on December 08, 2008
Biblical Criticism comes to Islam The New Statesman has an article on the state of studies into the literary criticical approach to the Q'uran. Given the effect that this approach had on Christianity, the collision between lit crit and Islam could be explosive...

Newsweek is written on a Fourth

Posted on December 08, 2008
Newsweek is written on a Fourth Grade level. The Newsweek "Belief" reporter, Lisa Miller, has written a piece on "taking conservative religious people" seriously in their "biblical" approach to marriage. Along the way, she reveals that she has virtually no knowledge concerning her subject and very little curiosity on the same, which explains why she is as ignorant as she is...

Well, why the heck not? After

Posted on December 08, 2008
Well, why the heck not? After this, what's next? RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has joined seven other dioceses in passing a resolution asking the church to let lesbians as well as homosexual men become bishops. The vote at the diocesan convention rejected the Episcopal Church's de facto moratorium on electing homosexual bishops since its 2003 consecration of Bishop

Merry Advent Christmas season

Posted on November 30, 2008
Merry Advent Christmas season doesn't start until later this month and then lasts until Epiphany. Joseph Bottum points out something unsettling about the modern approach to Christmas that starts - it seems - sometime before Halloween: These days, by the time Christmas actually rolls around, it feels as though this is very nearly what we?ve had: Christmas every day, at least since Thanksgiving.

The Iron Age and the Plastic Age If

Posted on November 29, 2008
The Iron Age and the Plastic Age If you have an MP3 player, or preferably an Ipod, and you like history, you should check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Carlin is a self-proclaimed "history fan" rather than a history scholar and his aim is to take the events of history and make them real to us as actual events lived by people like ourselves...

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