Will the Grammys Become an Anti-War-Fest? Let's hope so! Matt Drudge is reporting that CBS doesn't want the Grammys to turn into a pro-Saddam an anti-war rally: Top CBS executives....

The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle Today is the feastday in the Roman Rite; here is the proper prayer: All-powerful Father, you have built your Church on....

Newman's Birthday At Mark Sullivan's Ad Orientem, Gerard Serafin's Catholic Blog for Lovers, and Donna Marie Lewis's Quenta Nârwenion. P.S. Thanks to Chris Lugardo of Rosa Mystica for the notice.

Ven. John Henry Newman Born this day, February 21, 1801. Today is the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Cardinal Newman, one of God's greatest gifts to the Catholic Church.....

Two Via Ut Unum Sint Christopher Hitchens looks at the "peace" marches, and demonstrates the power of the single sentence: .... There are not enough words in any idiom to....

"Give Us 22 Minutes, We'll Give Up The Country" "If liberals cared about ideas or knew any facts, they would cease being liberals." Thanks to a reader for the notice....

Jacques Chiraq At Strategic Forecasting, LLC. Here is the heralded analysis, Feb. 19: .... In September 1975, Hussein traveled to Paris, where Chirac personally gave him a tour of a....

Why the "Peace" Protests are Immoral By Michael Kelly. From The New York Post yesterday: .... To march against the war is not to give peace a chance. It is....

I Need a Badge I caught some of Mike Farrell's appearance this evening on Hannity & Colmes. A question from Hannity prompted Farrell to reiterate his belief that Saddam Hussein....

Boycott France? Why Bother? A reader writes: France's stance on Iraq has to be one of the most hypocritical farces in modern history. Their opposition to a war with Iraq....

Just War Links By Extreme Catholic. At which we find a link to Just War is an Obligation of Charity. (Thanks, Karen.)

A Couple of Pointers A reader kindly refers me to this. And I kindly refer you to this and this. We are living in times when every major decision, every....

Out of Iraq A message published at OpinionJournal. And some prognostications from your Faithful, Humble Blogster. From Claudia Rosett today: From northern Iraq, in the U.S.- and British-protected no-fly zone,....

"Facing the Facts" "Some people need to connect each and every dot. May I do it for you in pencil, or in blood?" I forgot to refer you to this....

Bring It On! Some reading.

Comment to Kevin Miller De Virtutibus has weighed in again on Just War and Iraq Saddam Hussein, specifically replying to Michael Novak's latest at NRO: .... Furthermore, to the extent....

"When have millions of Europeans ever been wrong?" A reader kindly refers me to this Dennis Prager column at TownHall: .... Just as Europeans were losing faith in their national....

"Constitutional Confusion" A very worthy blog from Esquire yesterday.

Letter to Daniel McCarthy Re: Lying for Iraq. I have sent an e-mail to McCarthy, as follows: Subject: Your understanding of Just War theory is flawed. Dear Mr. McCarthy: Re:....

Lying for Iraq One Catholic writer cites a mendacious webpage. In response to Michael Novak's Rome Address, Daniel McCarthy writes: .... This is the heart of Novak’s argument. In more....

Thanks for the Second! To Dale Price. At Dyspeptic Mutterings. Dale's keenly sarcastic apologetical sense, honed perhaps at CCMB, shines here: .... The presumptiveness of Mr. Tucker's analysis morphs into....

Saddamites A withering analysis of the "peace" march in London, and of the real effects of the larger obstructionist movement, by William Rees-Mogg: .... The demonstrators were not people who....

Black is White and White is Black The inestimable Mark Steyn makes the evil plain in a very insightful column: .... Got that? It's not Saddam who's the thug, it's....

The Enemy Gets a Pass I don't know for sure, but I would bet lots of money I don't have that this is also true for the "peace" marches in....

Michael Novak and the Bishops on Iraq A very good essay today at NRO: Not that it matters to most people, but the Catechism of the Catholic Church lays down....

Zowee! A blistering jeremiad of the Catholic episcopacy in Rembertland the USA, by Fr. Joseph Wilson, is making its way around St. Blog's. And for good reason. .... Grace does....

Hitting Them Where it Hurts Re: Boycott France & Germany? A reader notes: I notice that people are starting to boycott French and German products. The news tonight reported that....

Anti-War = Anti-Israel? More help in understanding why the marches aren't really about peace. Interesting article from a group that is pro-Saddam Hussein anti-Iraqi-war: .... The discourse of blaming Israel....

Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: Pro-War Roundup Questions and answers. And answers. And answers. And.... A while back I blogged a link to somebody's (lgf's?) pro-war answers to the Cross-Blog Iraq Debate....

Prayer for the Church and for Our Civil Authorities By Archbishop John Carroll, 1791. At Maureen McHugh's Religion of Sanity.

Live from Baghdad! Again The "peace" movement still isn't about peace. BION, I have been waiting for a new installment of Live from Baghdad. And here it is, at Right-Thinking....

Reply to Jeffrey Tucker "It is wrong to care more for the lives of innocent civilians on the other side of the world who may be killed unintentionally than for....

A Foot and a Half! That's how deep the snow is in The Backyard of the Core.

"Our Debt of Gratitude" To France! From Bryan Preston at JunkYardBlog: .... In your recent actions, France, you have vindicated a viewpoint that was once, as in last week, considered....

Emily Dickinson It sifts from Leaden Sieves — It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road — It makes an Even Face Of....

John McCain: What a Disappointment To mainstream media, that is. I was amazed when I caught on C-SPAN some of Sen. McCain's speech on the failure of the "containment" policy....

Sen. John McCain: A Speech on Containment of Iraq The Center for Strategic & International Studies Policy Forum, Thursday, February 13, 2003. "A strategy of containment that tolerates Saddam Hussein’s....

A Sermon and an Essay By Fr. Jay Scott Newman, J.C.L. Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (on Just War) Random Thoughts on Boston, Palm Beach and Related Matters: One priest's....

A Letter to the US President At little green footballs. Charles Johnson has blogged a letter to George W. Bush from one of his readers; I think this is an....

Ridicule, Malice, and Kindness .... I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I....

Septuagesima Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: Many Called, Few Chosen Present Blessings The Work of the Christian P.S. See also Ut Unum Sint.