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The vote on a new ordinance here in my town is coming up on Tuesday. This ordinance would add "sexual orientation and gender identity...

There follow a few useful links concerning Rifqa Bary at Atlas Shrugged. I apologize for the format, etc., at Atlas. I find that the page ta...

Dear friends, I've often put up updates about Rifqa Bary at W4, usually with closed comments, because I refuse to deal with Muslim comme...

Courtesy of an e-mail from Keith Pavlischek, and courtesy of First Things's Evangel blogger , we have a bunch of exceedingly clever acro...

This morning our post-Communion hymn had words from the ancient Syriac liturgy of Malabar (translated, of course). Here are the first two ve...

Okay, this is a great video. Heh. Actually, I'm told that in the book Will , by G. Gordon Liddy (which I have not read and don't par...

Here is the post at W4 that I have been working on. It highlights one problem apiece with each of the only two methods for procuring usable...

Dear friends, I'm trying a change to registered user only comments. I think that this does not require you to have a blogger ID. It says...

You've probably heard about this already, but here are links to no less than three songs (the first link contains two songs) that publ...

Wow, here's a great prayer that I just ran across on this Catholic blog, which was in turn linked by Jeff Culbreath . Here's the pr...

We have some neighbors we like very much. J. and his wife B. are in their eighties. A few years ago, Eldest Daughter did a wonderful series ...

Via Eldest Daughter, here is a fun bluegrass-style song from Michael Card. It's about the Apostle Peter and is called "Walking on ...

I ought to write something profound about 9/11, but I cannot think of anything profound to say all by my lonesome. At W4 it has been done m...

Indulge me. I'd never heard this song before until my friend Rich posted a clip here of a short version of it by a capella group Retur...

A reader wrote via e-mail with the following, to my mind excellent, comment apropos of the long threads at W4 about growth, property, ...

Wesley J. Smith tells us of Robert Schindler's death. This is the moment when one really wants to be able to pray something or other fo...

I don't suggest that you go and read this whole editorial in the Orlando Sentinel . It's pretty slimy. (Sample--he refers to Terri ...

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" ...