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There seems to be a consensus among the sources I have read that the Alito so-called "hearings" are not worth spending much time o...

Some Confirmation Hearing Predictions: (Courtesy of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum ) [Note: This thread has been updated with the a...

Points to Ponder: (On Fighting Wars in a Timely or Appropriate Manner) [Prefatory Note: The below statement by Fr. James V. Schall SJ cohere...

First Draft of An Album Review: (Musings of your humble servant at  Rerum Novarum ) [Update: I made a few minor tweaks to this review div...

"If You Want Something Done Right, Do It Yourself" Dept. (On Arguments Opposed to Military Involvement in the Middle East) Due to ...

On Miscellaneous Matters: (Musings of your humble servant at  Rerum Novarum ) They call it stormy Monday...aah but Tuesday's just as ...

"Auld Lang Syne" Dept. (Aka "The Last Post of the Year") I have tended for the past couple of years on this weblog to...

On the Subjects of National Security, the Patriot Act, Etc. (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum ) I have said very little about...

You Should Get a JD (Juris Doctor) You're logical, driven, and ruthless. You'd make a mighty fine lawyer. What Advanced Degre...

Points to Ponder: (On Inconsistent Approaches to Nature) Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is...

Please remember in your prayers Larry Gonczy and his grieving family...Larry passed away a few days before Christmas and his funeral was tod...

Points to Ponder: It is now fashionable to deny that there ever was a state of nature. We are like aristocrats who do not care to know that ...

Briefly on Claude Frederic Bastiat, the US Constitution, and Socialism: My interlocuter's words will be in shale font. To paraphrase...

The previously noted first draft of an album review (Roger Waters's Amused to Death ) was posted to Amazon earlier today with minimal a...

Miscellaneous Threads for Reviewing: Briefly on some threads that have been accumulating for a while... Great Care Should Be Taken in Interp...

Points to Ponder: (On Value Relativism) When President Reagan called the Soviet Union “the evil empire,” right-thinking persons joined in an...

"Tracking the Ever-Elusive So-Called 'Neo Con'" Dept. This is a continuation of the thread posted HERE . To start from t...

I just realized five minutes ago that the last "points to ponder" installment was the 200th in the history of this weblog...mainly...

Points to Ponder: (On the Sanctity of Human Life and Nazi Atrocities) The previous installment of this series can be read HERE . To start fr...

On the Subject of America's Founding: (With Christopher Blosser and David Jones--Part III of III) The previous installment of this se...