"Deuterocanonicals or 'Apocrypha'?" A fine blog on the canon of the Old Testament, by Oswald Sobrino at Catholic Analysis the other day: In recently skimming an evangelical Protestant work on....

When the Minority Rules Some good articles on the current filibuster crisis in the US Senate: Minority Rules: Filibustering the Constitution How to End the Senate Filibusters Justice Held Hostage....

"Abortion On The Air" A good column the other day by Brent Bozell at MRC: The Hollywood take on constitutional rights usually begins not with the words "We the people,"....

Luskin vs. Krugman Redux Vide here and here. And see Luskin vs. Krugman.

Spam III I have received 30 e-mail messages so far today. Every one of them spam.

"A Truth-In-Broadcasting Statute" A really good idea from Victor Davis Hanson in today's NRO: .... We need legislation requiring journalists and reporters to publicly disclose the financial and political arrangements....

"Frist To Seek Rules Change To End Filibusters On Judges" Like the weather forecast... I'll believe it when it happens. (Thanks, Bryan.)

Caligula and the Vortex The Blog from the Core has been noticed twice lately at Catholic and Enjoying It! Gerry Powers Gets a Lot of Conservative Undies in a Bunch....

Naval Clinton A reader writes: On the silliness of the attacks on Bush's "photo op", here is a picture of Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea all together on an aircraft carrier.....

"George W. In the Flight Suit" I think the contrived Democratic brouhaha over the president's address from the USS Abraham Lincoln will be very short-lived because their own polling and....

"Thank You" A moving testimonial from Iraqi poet Awad Nasir in today's OpinionJournal: Let me confess something: I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Saddam Hussein's statue toppled in....

Another Liberal Opens an Eye For a few minutes, at the least. That would be Matthew Miller, Tribune Media Services, yesterday: Every so often you come across evidence that a....

On Bennett and Gambling I am now, I think, the last blogger in America to remark on Bill Bennett and gambling. Gambling, as he seems to have done it, is....

"Jayson Blair, Media Ethics and Diversity Programs" A revealing look at journalism by Matthew Hoy of Hoystory.com: .... According to reports, Blair was part of a Times internship program for....

Irrational & Incoherent or Subtle & Succint? Perhaps you have already caught Bill Donohue's letter in defense of Rod Dreher (sixth item), in The Dallas Morning News yesterday: Lucky to....

"Some Prejudices Are More Equal Than Others" The current issue of Catalyst has an excellent article by Philip Jenkins: For readers of Catalyst, expressions of anti-Catholic bigotry scarcely come as....

The Collapse of "Catholic" Higher Education in the USA Several members of St. Blog's have recently called attention to this Spectator article by John R. Dunlap, Apr. 28: .... Try....

Liberal Eyes Continue to Open A little bit, anyway. Two columns in today's Washington Post reveal that some liberals are coming around to accept reality. First, Richard Cohen writes about....

Campus Conservative Publications A cool article by John Johnson in today's Los Angeles Times: More than a dozen earnest college students gathered in the marshy meadowland of rural North Carolina....

Jill Nelson is Still a Psychotic, Left-Wing Extremist, Race-Baiting, America-Hating Marxoid Vide. Mark Shea hits the nail on the head: Puhleeze. Somebody needs to put her in an arena with....

"I Loathe America, and What It Has Done to the Rest of the World" She's one really sick puppy, but Margaret Drabble's honesty in the London Telegraph, May 8, is....

"The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed" In which Hilaire Belloc is revealed as something of a prophet. The current issue of This Rock has a condensed version of a....

How Many Other Made-Up Stories Has the New York Times Published? You have probably heard about the resignation last week of NYT reporter Jayson Blair after it was discovered that....

"Getting It Wrong on Purpose" Another revealing article by Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard today, about NYT's recent treatment of the "Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council (IRDC) -- a....

USCCB Official Calls for Elimination of Police and Prosecutors and Prisons Okay. I made that up. But, he's close. Gerry Powers, "director of the Office of International Justice and Peace....

Computer Problem Just wanted to let you know that the primary hard drive on my PC seems to be developing some problems, so I probably won't be blogging much for....

Islamist Terrorists' Tentacles Everywhere Here's a 60 Minutes story about a one-woman crusade against terrorism: For a soldier in the war on terror, she’s rather small and carries no weapon.....

Rancid Editorial at Radio Station WLSH Bill Cork calls our attention to a rancid anti-Catholic screed, written and broadcast as an "editorial" last week. Alan Phipps wrote about it yesterday.....

"What Counts Is What a Guy Does When He's Not Talking" The inimitable Mark Steyn is his usual brilliant in The London Telegraph, Saturday: .... The Madness of George Dubya....

Roadmap to Nowhere? "The U.S. and Israel: The Road Ahead" a.k.a. "Wrong Turn" Here is the "roadmap": A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The....

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The May Magnificat May 1878 May is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why:      Her feasts follow reason,      Dated due to season— Candlemas, Lady....

The Third Sunday of Easter Easter sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: The Gospel Sign Addressed to Faith The Spiritual Presence of Christ in the Church The....