"Too Smart To Be So Dumb" A sharp and enjoyable article by Joel Engel in The Weekly Standard, May 27: .... If it were true that a high I.Q. in....

"Terrorism and Other 'Scholarly Pursuits'" A hard-hitting editorial in The Weekly Standard, dated June 16, revealing that the American Association of University Professors may be poised to betray some of....

"George 'Machiavelli' Bush? Nah" An excellent op-ed from Tony Blankley in WaTi, June 4: Until about two weeks ago, our friends in the liberal media, the Democratic Party, the State....

"Judge Reviewed in Affirmative Action Case"? Reviewed? That's a neutral term, isn't it? One may be reviewed either favorably or unfavorably, no? I think the title quoted above is a....

"After the Raines of Terror" Donald Luskin has a great blog today on The New York Times in the aftermath of the departure of Howell Raines: .... Bully for the....

"The Good and the Beautiful and the True" A wonderful commencement address, which I printed out and read on Monday but have forgotten to blog until today, by Terrence Moore....

"The Godless Party: Media Bias & Blindness — And the Big Story They Missed" Rod Dreher has a sort of companion piece to Hitchcock's essay in the April issue of....

Let the Sunshine In! Raines is gone. Vide. The New York Times announced today that Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The Times, has been named interim executive editor, assuming....

Leon Panetta Agrees With Me Smart man. As reported by Donald Lambro in today's WaTi: Veteran Democratic strategist Leon Panetta fears his party is going to be torn apart in....

Abortion and Liberal Bias at NYT Matthew Hoy has a great blog today on the bias and deception in a New York Times article by Robin Toner, also today, on....

"Political Orphans: How the Democratic Party Left Traditional Believers Behind" A brilliant, and I do mean brilliant, overview and analysis from Catholic historian James Hitchcock in the April issue of....

"On Life and Blogging" By Sean Gallagher at Nota Bene ("On Life and Blogging", Tuesday, June 03, 2003, 2:24 PM).

Luskin et al. vs. Krugman Donald Luskin has a boffo roundup of weblog refutation of Paul Krugman's latest screed.

"Can Blogging Improve Media?" A most worthy blog by Susanna Cornett at cut on the bias, Tuesday: .... So I don't think the nature of blogs themselves needs to change....

"Crossing the Tiber" Uwe Siemon-Netto, religion editor at UPI, writes some really interesting and different articles. Here's one from yesterday: This coming Pentecost Sunday, the Rev. Leonard Klein will celebrate....

Great News for Republicans In The Washington Times today: Liberal activists kicked off a campaign offensive yesterday in Washington with an attack on President Bush and his policies, and criticized....

Colson on Arinze Chuck Colson has a Breakpoint commentary on the recent revelation of so many subversive traitors on the staff of Georgetown University, a supposedly Catholic institution: .... This....

Reply to Bill Cork Happily, I don't think there is any reason to take gentle exception to my citation of Wilson yesterday: Marriage--Contract or Sacrament? Well, for Catholics, it is....

"On the Eucharist and Conversion" From Thomas Howard at Zenit, yesterday, a beautiful and profound (what else could it be?) reflection on the Holy Eucharist: .... The morning after I....

"My Brooklyn College Tenure Battle" K. C. Johnson writes at History News Network, June 2, about how he was almost denied a full professorship, and thus tenure, because he bucked....

Santorum and C-SPAN Have you read the beautiful story that Sen. Rick Santorum tells (via Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO yesterday)? In 1998, I was on the floor of the....

Spinsanity Looks at Iraq A long, informative article by Brendan Nyhan and Bryan Keefer, May 28: In the wake of the war in Iraq, a number of questions have arisen....

Massachusetts' Bishops Against Homosexual "Marriage" Apparently, some folks are surprised at this. Gerry D'Avolio, executive director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, has an op-ed in Sunday's Boston Globe, responding to....

Happy First Blog Anniversary to Bill Cork Today is Bill Cork's first blogiversary. Congratulations to him and to his fine weblog, which is always worth reading (no matter what name....

Stephen Hayes Shines the Spotlight on Bill Moyers Again Vide. This, at the very end, caught my eye: Stephen F. Hayes is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. Thanks....

Socially Acceptable Bigotry Apparently, anti-Catholicism is not alone. Willy Stern comes out of the closet — and confesses to being a Republican, May 29: .... The sad fact of the....

Thanks to More Fellow Bloggers Thanks to my fellow bloggers for taking notice of my first blogiversary last Monday: Susanna Cornett at cut on the bias, Mark C. N. Sullivan....

"Godly Conceptions and Their Meanings" An insightul blog by Alan Phipps at Ad Altare Dei, Friday: I was reflecting tonight on a discussion I recall having several years ago with....

"College-Bound Students Often Skip Race Question" An informative article in yesterday's WaPo: .... In the past few years, many college officials say they've seen a striking surge in the number....

Another Review of Philip Jenkins' New Book This time from John Baumann in The Washington Post yesterday: .... In The New Anti-Catholicism Jenkins doesn't shy away from picking fights with....

Conservative Bias at the Los Angeles Times? Howard Kurtz writes today in The Washington Post about the Timeses (New York and Los Angeles). I found this bit about LAT most....

"Warfare the Condition of Victory" A sermon by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: .... It is as though all of us were allowed to stand around His Throne....

The Weekend Report I was rather preoccupied the past few days. Friday afternoon, I applied for employment at the nearby call center of a major international corporation that shall remain....

Big Media Agglomeration I tend to think that the continued accumulation of more and more mass media into fewer and fewer hands is a great danger. James Gattuso argues otherwise....

Maureen Dowd No Longer Welcome in the "Crossroads of the Piney Woods" Small-Town Newspaper Rebuffs Big-City Newspaper A Texas newspaper, The Lufkin Daily News, will never again publish Maureen Dowd's....