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A chaotic week. Just before the 4th of July, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by a Republican President provides the swing vot...

Not much time to blog these days, but here's something to enjoy. It brightened my day. A rip-roaring anti-environmentalist editorial abo...

Think of soldiers in an army fighting in their little sector. They are being hard-pressed and things are going against them. If they think ...

However, you'll see that I'm not really as brave as that sounds, because I'm publishing this here rather than at the more heavil...

In honor of the Feast of Pentecost, here is the inimitable Fernando Ortega singing "Come Down O Love Divine": Come Down,...

Here is "Be Still My Soul" to the immortal tune "Finlandia." Performed by a group named Vocal Point of which I had never...

A blessed and glorious feast of the Ascension to all my readers, Catholic and Protestant alike. In fact, I have always said that the Feast o...

The Booth Brothers are one of my very favorite Gospel music groups. They have a wonderful smooth sound, gentle humor, and genuine kindness. ...

In case you were ever wondering, "Why does Lydia McGrew despise unions?" (a thought that I'm sure passes through your minds at...

I have to say that the new Blogger behind-the-scenes look isn't just overly appealing, but I suppose I'll get used to it. More urgen...

There is an attitude I'm running into occasionally among men, even young men who have not had anything terrible done to them, and I thin...

"I am a burden to you. I should go away. Please, admit it. I am a burden to you." "I will not admit such a thing." ...

If you think America's criminal justice system is blind when the issue of race is involved (ahem) and when defense against attack is inv...

Herewith, Edmund Spenser's Happy Easter sonnet to Elizabeth, to whom he was to be married. Amoretti 68: Most glorious Lord of life, that...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; Mercifu...

We sang "O Sacred Head" on Palm Sunday in church, with all the verses. In this post several years ago I meditated a bit on this o...

A blessed Holy Week to Extra Thoughts readers. Assist us mercifully with thy help, O Lord God of our salvation; that we may enter with joy u...

I am a Protestant, as I have repeatedly said. So in a sense I haven't got much of a right to get involved in the present kerfuffle conce...

Lawrence Auster has had some good posts recently on the contraception mandate. Like any sensible person, Auster is in something like shock ...

Here is a passage from the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet, by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter): In the quiet courts of the Cistercian house of Dor...