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"Toying With An Amazingly Intolerant (and Misinformed) Liberal" Dept. This is my response to the second "fisking" vict...

"Hap-py Birth-day Ron-ald-us Mag-nus" Dept. It is good to see a tribute to President Reagan on his 92nd birthday today from Blog f...

I am almost done with the critique of Eve Tushnet's arguments for not going to war. I worked on it a bit earlier and I do not intend in ...

"Laying the Smack Down" Dept. I have long believed that any decent conservative can effectively dispatch two or more liberals ...

To An Athlete Dying Young: (By A.E. Housman) THE time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy st...

"For Whom the Blog Tolls" Dept. on the Strain of Website Maintenance/Blogging: (Musings of your humble servant at  Rerum Novarum ...

Points to Ponder: I'm reminded of Archbishop Sheen's frequent comment, that there are but a handful of people who hate the Catho...

Points to Ponder: (...Ozzy Osbourne censor activated!!!...) "Religion is the opiate of the masses," said Marx. Well, Marxism ...

On Quizzes and Running Down America: (by the "people of peace" falsely so-called) I took the Wild Monk quiz (courtesy of Bill ...

Bryan Preston's commentary on political and social issues (as well as occasionally on religious issues) is always one that We at Rerum N...

Fr. Rob Johansen is finally back to blogging after three months nearly four months off. Here is his return post - which highlights well the...

Reiteration of Guest Editorial Policy: From the archives circa September 30, 2002: Guest Editorial Policy Since the George Weigel two p...

New Amazon Book Review of George Weigel's 2002 book "The Courage to be Catholic": (Musings of your humble servant at  Rerum N...

Eve Tushnet on Tradition vs. the Past: As I have noted in my writings, authentic Traditionalism "is not and cannot be found in ex...

Reforming the Tridentine Missal: (aka "Stirring Up A Hornets' Nest" Dept.) These suggestions back at the Envoy weblog got...

Points to Ponder: If there is one phrase that stands before history as typical of Thomas Aquinas, it is that phrase about his own argume...

Courtesy of Bryan Preston is this making of the Michael Jordon Superbowl commercial. The technology and intricacies of method alone in such...

"I'm With Stupid" Dept. Guess who will be chairing the UN's Disarmarment Conference??? If you said it could not possib...

Brief Comments on the State of the Union Speech: Well, W did a very good job tonight. I thought covering the domestic stuff first was an ...

On Death Camps and Dead 'Traditionalism': (A Response to My Friend Albert) Shawn, In an NBC story about North Korean death ca...