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It just gets worse and worse. I am exceedingly disappointed in World Net Daily for publishing this article by Pat Buchanan. If WND has a lo...

I like to get out tips to people about modest clothes for girls. It's one of my things. Moms can waste a lot of time looking in the stor...

I just got back from the grocery store with a bag that says (Lydia is not making this up), "This is a recyclable bag that will reduce g...

There is an excellent thread about Buchanan's "unnecessary war" nonsense, about which I'm not sure I can speak without say...

Byhrtwold grasped his shield and spoke. He was an old companion. He brandished his ash-spear and most boldly urged on the warriors: "Mi...

To the debate about Muslim takeovers of Western countries, that is. I wrote to a correspondent recently in e-mail that the low-church Protes...

Y.D. being Youngest Daughter. Not really, of course. But she expressed herself rather forcefully about a matter of public policy today, so E...

I've been following the FLDS fiasco at Jeff Culbreath's blog. His latest post on the subject is here . I admit to being the kind of ...

I have a new post at W4 that has been the product of much thought, though I had for a while decided that it would never actually be written....

Dear readers, I have removed comments moderation and the requirement for blogger ID for the time being. You will have to do one of those thi...

I had been drafting a really depressing post about a book I'm re-reading ( In the Beginning , one of his third-tier ones) by Jewish nove...

I tried really hard to think of something profound to say about Pentecost, today being that feast. But nothing came to mind. So rather than ...

The feast of the Ascension has been one of my favorite church holy days for a long time. It celebrates all that great stuff from the Epistle...

My blogging time this week went into a new post at What's Wrong with the World on a disturbing thing--disturbing to me anyway--I'm s...

The collect for the fourth Sunday after Easter reads as follows: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of si...

I apologize to my long-suffering readers here at Extra Thoughts, if I retain any, for my silence in the last couple of weeks. Spring has fin...

About five years ago a friend said to me, quite confidently, "Do you know what the subtitle of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' is...

...but he does not submit. See Mark's story about Robert Latimer, who murdered his disabled daughter and is proud of it, here . I've...

Dear Readers, I have reluctantly decided to enable comments moderation for a time, even on such a low-traffic blog as this one. This action ...

I was studying Colossians with Middle Daughter the other day. Got to the part where Paul warns his readers about people who will beguile the...