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There are probably very few readers who read this personal blog but not What's Wrong with the World, the group blog to which I contribut...

I apologize for being so silent lately, as well as for the fact that there has been no collect or hymn featured for quite some time. Today r...

Okay, enough serious stuff. True story: We took two pillows to the cleaners to be cleaned, because if you try to wash pillows and dry them i...

Caveat: What follows is not intended to mean that I endorse a democratic ideal of the family nor that I think that husbands have to defer to...

...is niggardly with light? A: A black hole. Kudos to Lawrence Auster for a great new joke. (I find it very hard to invent jokes, myself.) H...

I have now turned about two hundred and fifty pages worth of phonics material that I have written for teaching young children to read into a...

As you've probably seen elsewhere on the blogosphere, two boys in a public school in the UK were punished with detention for refusing t...

In the recent terror attack with a front-loader in Israel, a young off-duty IDF soldier named Moshe Plesser shot the terrorist three times i...

From Wesley J. Smith, Here's a perspective on veganism that had never occurred to me before, I being a city slicker and knowing next to...

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...