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See here . Comments are being directed here. The new W4 post contains an address where we can try to send Rifqa a Christmas card. My defeati...

Tomorrow is Advent Sunday. We're starting another church year. It's a wild thought. (I love Trinity season, but it gets a bit long. ...

Ha! Bet you never thought you'd see me say that. I mean recycling posts. I've looked at last year's Thanksgiving post and decid...

I left New Orleans for home yesterday in the rain. To be fair, the weather had been sunny until then. But yesterday morning the view from th...

And, Atlas has learned , her laptop has been confiscated. The court clerk appears to have been instructed to lie to inquirers and tell them ...

The next time some anti-Israel acquaintance starts whining at you about the wrongs suffered--somehow--by Christians as a result of the Israe...

When I was a little girl, my parents frequently reminded me to thank God that I live in America. They rightly pointed out all the blessings ...

How depressing , but true. And yet there's something so satisfying and even rather darkly amusing about having someone else say it. If a...

Rifqa Bary's hearing on the 16th (this is the hearing on her parents' claim that she is an incorrigible child) has been postponed to...

In this article we find quotations from a liberal journalist, John Cassidy, admitting that Obamacare won't work economically as promised...

Many of us have friends who have homosexual inclinations, or we have had such friends at some time in the past. Part of the success of the a...

I promised that I would update my readers on our local politics. Being a pessimist, I was not terribly surprised that the homosexual and tra...

Having forgotten to change the clocks last night, I found myself with an extra hour this morning--riches! I used part of it for practicing ...

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...