Blogworthies XLVI Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ The Diplomad, The Corner, Recta Ratio, Christifideles, Belmont Club, Training for Eternity, Right Wing News,....

Three for Christmas Day Poems by Sister M. Madeleva, C.S.C. Ways God has most simple ways. He likes a stable's covering, And little lambs that shepherds bring. His majesty aside....

Three for Christmas Eve Poems by Sister M. Madeleva, C.S.C. Christmas Eve I journeyed down to Bethlehem In deep peace on a winter day. I think a young girl and....

Congrats to Katz Vide. Confer.

"The Emissary" Thanks to Sherry for sending this the other day: For several years now, I have wanted to write a meaningful Christmas story that might be enjoyed by adults....

ACLU Homeland Holiday Advisory System

Christmas Blessings Something different. A while back, an old friend e-mailed me a PowerPoint Show. I tweaked it a little bit — some of the transitions were too early, I....

"Can Catholics Vote Democratic Anymore?" A book review by Dennis E. Teti at The Claremont Institute, Dec. 20 (brackets and quoted ellipses in original): .... Kennedy's efforts to assuage voters'....

A Satanic Gas? And, Will on Crichton. Thanks to a fellow blogger for this Congressional testimony, Oct. 6, 1999: .... This testimony demonstrates that the observed climate changes that have....

Christifideles A brand spanking new weblog. Vide.

Lileks Flays Wolcott The Bleat responds to a critic. It is interesting in many ways: .... I’m empathetic to the meanings of other holidays. I suspect others are equally ecumenical....

Is GWB "Too" "Religious"? An article at The Economist, Dec. 16 (emphasis and quoted ellipses in original): .... Mr Bush uses religious rhetoric in five main ways: • As a....

"Say 'Merry Christmas' While You Still Can" Haven't quoted The Inimitable One for a long time: .... The seasonally litigious rest their fanatical devotion to the deChristification of Christmas on....

"Hot Air" Thanks to Margaret for calling our attention to this article at The American Thinker, today: Back in the days of Jimmy Carter and killer rabbits, doomsayers were telling....

"Victims of Choice" A press release today from Human Life International. + + + + + “We are grateful to The Washington Post for exposing what the pro-life community, and....

Point Blank (Round 18): Good Question Thanks to Times Against Humanity for the notice of Hollywood and The Passion of the Christ.

"Why Only Catholicism Can Make Protestantism Work" A great article at CERC by Mark Brumley, originally in Catholic Dossier, September-October 2001: Interpreting the Reformation is complicated business. But like many....

Catholic Carnival IX At A Penitent Blogger this week. Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has an entry in this week's Carnival.

The United Nations: Trade Association of Government Power Brokers Finally, a way to wrap your mind around that thing. Carroll Andrew Morse writes at TCS today: .... The United Nations....

Congrats to the Power Liners For gettting Time's Blog of the Year award. This is a giant step towards the day when newspaper and magazine articles will no longer need....

"Bolshevik Storytelling" That's what Matthew Hoy calls the ginned-up fracas over unarmored Humvees, sparked by a revelation at Power Line: .... The facts regarding the Guardsman's own unit also appear....

The Paragraph Farmer A young weblog by Patrick O'Hannigan. Vide.

Witting Shire A new weblog by Jonathan & Amanda Witt. You gotta love a place that blogs this. See also these. (Thanks, Kenneth.)

Yikes! My backyard thermometer says 3.6° Fahrenheit.

Will the Pro-Abortion Party Change? In a word: No. Kristin Day, of Democrats for Life of America, has a column at NRO, Dec. 2: Senator John Kerry and the Democratic....

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page Vide.

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Three by Housman III Poems by Alfred Edward Housman. White in the moon the long road lies,    The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies....