Friday, December 02, 2005

A Long Overdue Rerum Novarum Update:

It has been nearly five months since this weblog was fully updated...easily the longest period without such an update. There are many reasons for this which your host does not care to go into at the moment except to note that there were three very minor updates made in that interim which bear noting. The first of these was done on October 4, 2005 and was primarily a weeding of the side margin of various articles -though a few sites were also added at that time and a few links renamed. The second one was done on October 6, 2005 and was basically your host receiving some assistance in template tweaking from Christopher Blosser to add to the side margin both a scrolling archives feature as well as a "last ten postings" feature as well to significantly cut down on side margin bulkage and make matters far more streamlined. There was then a third one where a link was added and the Religion of Peace logo was installed in the side margin. But we have finally gotten to the big update so let Us tend to it now without further ado...


Weblog Special Reports, Commemorations, Retrospectives, Miscellaneous Stuff, Etc…

Guest Editorial on Colleges and Their Lack of Faculty Diversity (Written by Tim Tull; Prefatory Comments by I. Shawn McElhinney) [>>>]

On the Subject of Beer Revisited [>>>]

Miscellaneous Musings on Time--An Audio Post [>>>]

Remembering Chris [>>>]


My Political/SocialMusings…

On Political/Social Subjects in General

Briefly on the Karl Rove Situation [>>>]

Briefly on CAFTA and So-Called "Free Trade" [>>>]

Miscellaneous Musings on John Bolton, Air UnAmerica, Helen Thomas, and King County Corruption [>>>]

Briefly on Cindy Sheehan [>>>]

On the High Gas Prices and the Economics Involved Therein [>>>]

On Able Danger and A Potential Defense Department Coverup [>>>]

On the DeLay "Indictment " [>>>]

On the Miers Nomination and Activist Conservative Agendas (Dialogue with Kevin Tierney) [>>>]

Miscellaneous Mutterings on Polling--An Audio Post [>>>]

Briefly Revisiting Able Danger [>>>]

More on Harriet Miers (With Kevin Tierney) [>>>]

Wrapup Musings on the Miers Nomination [>>>]

On the Niger Uranium Document Forgeries [>>>]

Focus on Able Danger Stupid (Parts I-II) [>>>]


On the US Constitution, the Fundamental Rights of Man, Etc…


Points to Ponder on Normative Questions and Theories (Walter E. Williams) [>>>]

Points to Ponder on the Constitutional View of All Minority Groups (Allan Bloom) [>>>]

On Physician Assisted Suicide, the Supreme Court, and Original Intent--An Audio Post [>>>]

Briefly on Claude Frederic Bastiat and "The Law (With Christopher Blosser) [>>>]


On the Recent War and War in General


On Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Profound Problems With Ivory Tower Revisionist Pontifications [>>>]

Expanding Futher on the Subject of Double Effect Viz. the Atomic Bombings [>>>]

Threads on the Atomic Bomb Droppings, Military and Statistical Calculations, the Moral and Ethical Aspects of the Subject Matter in Question, Etc... (A Rerum Novarum Recapitulation Thread) [>>>]

Abstract Theorizing and Hypothetical Wartime Situations With SecretAgentMan (Parts I-II) [>>>]

Another Flawed Argument From Pseudo "Peacemakers" Bites the Dust [>>>]


On Political Election Topics

Dems Find No Vote Fraud in Ohio [>>>]

Election Voting Fraud Revisited [>>>]


Bridging Reason and Faith: My Philosophical/Ethical Musings…

On Particular Philosophical/Ethical Subjects


For Preserving the Historical Record [>>>]

Briefly on Making a Valid Argument and Avoiding Argumentation Fallacies [>>>]

On Dialogue and When it is a Waste of Time [>>>]

On Stephen Hand and Certain Statements He Needs to Account For [>>>]

Miscellaneous Musings on Dialogue--An Audio Post [>>>]

Points to Ponder on the Role of the Historian (Herbert Butterfield) [>>>]

Points to Ponder on the Myopic Vision of the Whig Historian (Herbert Butterfield) [>>>]

Miscellaneous Morning Musings on Blogging, the So-Called "Neo-Cons", and the Miers Nomination--An Audio Post [>>>]

Briefly Revisiting the Term "Neo-Con" and its Usage (With Christopher Blosser) [>>>]



Of or Pertaining to 'Progressivist' Philosophies (Falsely So-Called)

More on Marxists, Their Methodology, and Other Tidbits [>>>]

Points to Ponder on So-Called "Progressivism" as a Religion (David Horowitz) [>>>]

Points to Ponder on Openness (Allan Bloom) [>>>]

Miscellaneous Notes on the Hypocrisy of the "Bird Flu Epidemic" Crowd--An Audio Post [>>>]


My Theological Musings…

On the Mystery of the Church


"Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus" Dept. (Responding to a Critique) [>>>]


On Certain Controverted "Hotpoint" Theological Subjects

Very Briefly on Purgatory and Foundational Presuppositions [>>>]

Abrogated Threads:

Recommended* Articles on Various Subjects…

Recommended* Socio-Political Articles on Various Subjects

New York Times v. Janice Rogers Brown (Nat Hentoff) [>>>]

Are Liberals Begging For It? (Ronald Wieck) [>>>]

A Tale of Two Tax Cuts (Justin Lee Jones) [>>>]

The Democrats Sign Up With the Anti-Semites (Richard Baehr) [>>>]

Keep the Pressure on Your Senators to Nix a Gonzales Nomination (Steve Dillard) [>>>]

Will the Real News Fabricator Please Stand Up? (Debbie Schlussel) [>>>]

Alice in Realityland (Chrenkoff) [>>>]

Our Strange War - Looking Ahead, Our Options (Victor Davis Hanson) [>>>]

The Global Shift: The World Will Soon Better Appreciate the United States (Victor Davis Hanson) [>>>]

Why You Can't Believe Polls Anymore (Dick Morris) [>>>]

Pro-Democrat Vote Fraud Probed in Florida (Carl Limbacher) [>>>]

Let Rumsfeld Be (Victor Davis Hanson) [>>>]

A Dangerous Surplus of Sons? (David Glenn) [>>>]

Mexamerica , Here We Come (Patrick J. Buchanan) [>>>]

An Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch (Charlie Daniels) [>>>]

Has the Counter-Revolution Begun? (Patrick J. Buchanan) [>>>]

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (William J. Bennet) [>>>]

Innocent Religion is Now A Message of Hate (Abdel Rahman) [>>>]

John Kerry's Deadly Foreign Policy (Wilson C. Lucom) [>>>]

It's a Brave New World After Terri Schiavo Dies (Timothy Birdnow) [>>>]

Articles Added:

Recommended* Socio-Political Articles on Various Subjects

A War to Be Proud of (Christopher Hitchens) [>>>]

Louis Freeh: Let's Get Hearings On Able Dange (Captain Ed) [>>>]

Internet Rules--The Miers Denouement Shows The Power of the New Media (John Fund) [>>>]

First Fight Yourself, Then Society (Dennis Prager) [>>>]

Catholics For Marx (Fr. Robert Sirico) [>>>]

[A Certain So-Called "Peacemaker" and Their] Dick Durbinesque Definition of Torture (Greg Mockeridge) [>>>]

Reforming Social Security: Lessons from Thirty Counties (Michael DeBow) [>>>]

Why does the New York Times Insist on Calling Jihadists "Insurgents"? (Christopher Hitchens) [>>>]

The Friends of Cindy Sheehan (John Hindraker) [>>>]

DeLay's Prosecutor Offered "Dollars for Dismissals (Byron York) [>>>]

McCain Economy Bloc (Robert Novak) [>>>] >

Where the WMDs Went (Jamie Glasnov) [>>>]

Random Thoughts (Thomas Sowell) [>>>]

Bomb Technology Enters Iraq from Iran (Charles Aldinger) [>>>]

Ammunition For Poverty Pimps (Walter E. Williams) [>>>]

Do We Really Care About Children? (Walter E. Williams) [>>>]

Lefty Professors Crush Dissent (Beth Cleaver) [>>>]

UN Confirms: WMD smuggled out of Iraq? (The Anchoress) [>>>]


Recommended* Religious/Theological Articles on Various Subjects

Benedict XVI and Liturgical Reform (Dom Alcuin Reid OSB) [>>>]

War and the Eclipse of Moral Reasoning (Dr. Philip Blosser) [>>>]


All things to the contrary notwithstanding.