Blogworthies XLIV Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ iowahawk, 2Slick's Forum, Froggy Ruminations, Anchor Rising, Michelle Malkin, Catholic Analysis, Hoystory.com, The Corner, Flos....

Newspaper Reporter Brags to Colleagues About Surreptitiously Manipulating News Conference "I just had one of my best days as a journalist today." The famous question to SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, ostensibly....

Frum on "Gay" "Marriage" Margaret writes to call attention to David Frum's observations on the dishonest, subversive ways of the homosexualists: .... From an American point of view, however, what....

Next DNC Chairman: Howard Dean? Paul writes to call attention to the latest from Move On: .... A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the....

File This Under "Be Careful What You Ask For" You might get it. At the Boston Globe, Dec. 8: Many of the state's largest employers are dropping health benefits for....

Dayo Olopade, Bigot I'm sure I wouldn't want to be held accountable for the rest of my life for what I thought and wrote when I was a college sophomore.....

Armstrong on "Apocrypha" A monumental new paper at Biblical Evidence for Catholicism.

Project: The Game! I think this is hilarious. I also think those guys will go far. See also Elis outsmart Harvard with prank at Game. (Thanks, James.)

"Eminem Is Right" Another monumental essay at Policy Review, this one by Mary Eberstadt. Also published in this month's issue (brackets and quoted ellipses in original): .... Papa Roach, Everclear,....

Cella's Review Vide. (Thanks, Jeff.)

The Twelve Rules of Christmas A list at The Rutherford Institute: Unfortunately, Christmas has become a time of controversy over what can or cannot be done in terms of celebrating....

Who's Really in the Closet In Hollywood and environs, that is. A revealing article by Ben Stein at The American Spectator, Dec. 6: .... This is the way it is....

Catholic Carnival VII At Dunmoose the Ageless, Protomonk this week. (Thanks, Nârwen.)

Catholic Marriage Petition It's here at Catholic Marriage Petition (ellipses in original). + + + + + Dear Bishops, We come to you as Catholics from all walks of life.....

Goldsborough's Controversial Column As mentioned by Matthew Hoy last week, a columnist for his newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, quit last week when the publisher spiked a column. The text....

Geraghty on Moore and the Democratic Party Jim Geraghty has a great post over at The Kerry Spot at NRO, Dec. 3, on the deleterious influence of Michael "Payback Tuesday"....

Pearl Harbor Day The sixty-third anniversary. Vide. P.S. Power Line blogs President Roosevelt's address to the Congress in the wake of the attack, Dec. 8, 1941.

Projekt30 December exhibition. Vide.

"Angels on the Farm" I submitted this article to the Tribune-Review, but the main office decided not to run it: too much like an ad for a business, they said.....

In the Red Zone A very young weblog from Spence Publishing Company. Vide. (Thanks, Bryan.)

Belloc's Dictum "Intelligence may be measured by the capacity of separating categories." Last night, an old friend preparing for a debate e-mailed for some ideas on how to approach certain....

"When War Must Be the Answer" A monumental essay by Rev. James Schall, S.J. At Policy Review, December 2004: .... My argument derives from Jacques Maritain’s assertion that “justice, brains,....

Three by Housman I Poems by Alfred Edward Housman. The night is freezing fast,    To-morrow comes December;       And winterfalls of old Are with me from the past;    And chiefly I....