"Bad Reporting in Baghdad" According to Jonathan Foreman, things are going much better in Baghdad than some folks would like us to think: .... But you won't see much of....

"Pope Found To Be Catholic" A cool takedown of some Protestant reactions to the pope's latest encyclical, from Episcopalian blogger Christopher Johnson: .... With the readership's kind indulgence, the fiercely....

Roadmap to Terrorism? As I'm sure you know, Faithful Reader, Bush & Blair have published a "roadmap" for the future of the Middle East, on which prominence is given, as....

We Have Rounded a Bend in the Road Some of us know that; some of us don't. David Warren knows. Vide.

Our Enemies in Academia Many thanks to Margaret for calling my attention to this brilliant blog by Steven den Beste at USS Clueless, on neo-Marxism in the academic greenhouse: ........

Why Hollywood Isn't America Dorothy Rabinowitz has a moving column at OpinionJournal today: .... Neither of the McPhillips was surprised at Brian's choice of a military career. His father had....

"Persistence Is Futile" Claudia Rosett writes about North Korea, in yesterday's OpinionJournal: .... In prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, analysts have been churning out discussions of various nuanced ways....

St. Joseph the Worker And a prayer to the saint. In the Roman Church, today is the feastday of St. Joseph the Worker. Today also begins my parish's year-long centennial....

John Milton: Song on May Morning      Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,      Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her      The flowery May, who from her green lap....

For Inklings' Fans Mark Cameron of Mystique et Politique calls our attention to this provocative article by Michael Ward in The Times Literary Supplement, Apr. 23, in which Ward examines....

Blog Stuff I have added a few links to the right-hand column — and removed a few, too. :) I have also added a section towards the bottom, Some Significant....

"The Libertarian Question" A good column today by Stanley Kurtz at NRO: There is a mystery at the heart of the gay-marriage debate. I call it the "libertarian question." The....

"The Clinton Intel Record" In short: politicized malfeasance. Mansoor Ijaz writes yesterday at NRO: The unearthing of documents directly linking Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization to Saddam Hussein this....

Last Letters Home Sunday, The Washington Post published a brief account of some last letters home from American military personnel in Iraq: In Troops' Final Words, Faith and Grace. The....

Ecclesia de Eucharistia at Catholic Analysis True to its name, the Catholic Analysis weblog ran a series of commentaries, ending Monday, on the pope's encyclical: Monday, April 21, 2003 Tuesday,....

Jonah Goldberg on the Hollywood Vacuumheads A spot-on column, noted by several other bloggers, in yesterday's NRO: .... Okay, let's recap. "Intimidation" of free speech is a moral horror. Democracy....

Norman Mailer: Senile? Psychotic? Or Just Plain Imbecilic? Or the pitiable end-product of decades of self-loathing? You tell me.

"Is Federalism Conservative?" An informative analysis by Robert Alt at NRO today: .... But by casting stones at those who adhere to (or in Sutton's case, merely argue on behalf....

Re: Janet Daley "Up from Liberalism" From a reader: She certainly grasped the essence of socialism. It is always embraced for its compassion and ends up as a form of....

"A New Iraq" An excellent column by James Lindgren in Sunday's Chicago Tribune: .... People are asking what we should be doing in Iraq and why aren't we doing it....

Is This Any Way to Run Anything? Imagine you live in a community that has... unusual... rules for selecting the mayor, the police chief, and the officers of the town....

Carl Olson on Dispensationalism A good "dialogue" at Envoy Encore, last Friday: "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING...": .... Dispensationalist should be exposed as a false belief system AND we should catechize....

Absolutely No Americans Were on Saddam's Payola List How do we know that? Well... actually... we don't know that. Saddam Hussein: "Compared to tanks, journalists are cheap — and you....

From California to London Janet Daley's journey out of Marxism. A fine essay in the current City Journal: .... The left-wing elite castigated teachers for attempting to correct the working-class....

St. Catherine of Siena Today in the Roman Church is the feastday of St. Catherine of Siena. Here is my favorite passage from her prayers. + + + + +....

Spam II I have received 42 e-mail messages so far today. Every one of them spam.

"Ye Newe York Times Reports on Postwar Difficulties Following Victory at Yorktown" Don't miss it. :) (Thanks, MM.)

"Country Would Do Well To Abandon 'Diversity'" This article, by Peter Wood in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Apr. 13, ran in today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: .... So what does diversity mean?....

On Hollywood's Vacuumheads A couple of interesting articles today. First, Eerie Silence in Hollywood as Anti-War Stars Vanish, at Reuters: In the weeks leading up to war in Iraq actors....

Bright Sunday: the Second Sunday of Easter Easter sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: The Resurrection of the Body Witnesses of the Resurrection Difficulty of Realizing Sacred....