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Per Bill Luse's suggestion here , I have posted here a piece on Obamacare and abortion. The short version is, yeah, it looks like it wi...

If there's one thing I get tired of...okay, there are lots of things I get tired of. I can't pick one. But one of the things I get t...

Story here . Unclear whether he'll actually do it. How evil is that? You insist that the courts declare you have this "right" ...

We all know by now that Obama's line is that if you like your insurance, you'll be able to keep it. Nothing to see here, folks. Move...

I don't know how many of these I will do. The whole thing is very discouraging. First, here are links to some of my comments and one po...

Dear friends, As most of you learned from the comments below, it turned out that I had a much more serious problem with my ankle and foot th...

So it turns out I'm quite allergic to bee and/or wasp stings. Got stung a week ago today for the first time in my life, as far as I can ...

I've been watching on Facebook recently as some friends (who almost certainly don't read this blog, and who are unknown to anyone wh...

Those of you who have ever been involved in a project involving a small group, or perhaps in a small church, may be familiar with the phenom...

I remember during the Olmert administration in Israel there were all these questions as to whether Olmert had agreed (shamefully, with the B...

I just had a lovely evening walk. Listened to the doves. Doves are funny birds--slow-moving and seemingly slow-witted. But perhaps for that ...

I encourage my readers to read my latest post at W4. I give a few suggestions of historical evidence ammunition for Christians. This is an ...

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the he...

"And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto ...

Dear friends, After catching up on my sleep from the Belgium trip, I felt absolutely wonderful. I went bouncing around for a few days, unabl...

Over at W4 I've put up a post on my Belgium trip. It's good to be home, though the conference was great. I got to see a little bit ...

A blessed Trinity Sunday to everyone. I don't know if my Catholic readers have Trinity Sunday. If not, it's a shame. Comes right aft...

I got word a few hours ago by e-mail that a friend of ours named Dale Peeke died this morning. Dale was a member of my church, St. Patrick...

[This is a re-post from a few days ago at What's Wrong with the World. It was prompted by some of the posts it links from Wesley J. Smi...

Just in case you all out there in readerland ever say to yourselves, "I wonder what Lydia McGrew is up to in her personal life lately,...