Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Power Line, Armavirumque, small dead animals, Clarity & Resolve, A Western Heart, The Corner, Silflay Hraka, Catholic....

I just didn't want to be the only blogger on Earth who didn't post The Picture this week. :-) The Hug! The Hug!

A reader writes: I remember reading in CS Lewis' novel That Hideous Strength about how the evil eldila would destroy their willing puppets, like Frost and Wither, as "They always....

If you only read one thing this week, let it be this. Thanks to Margaret for calling to our attention the latest from VDH @ NRO. Confer.

Bob Hayes is good enough to include The Blog from the Core on his blogroll, and me in his e-mail distribution, so I'm happy to link to his very first....

A couple of surveys by the folks from MRC. First, a press release, Jan. 31 (emphasis and quoted ellipses in original): + + + + + .... Rather was right....

I've been remiss in blogging these. Fr. Rob Johansen blogs at Thrown Back, Jan. 25: As many of you already no doubt know, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court declared that....

If only. Thanks to Margaret for notice of this Dennis Prager column at TownHall, Feb. 1: "Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing."....

Or, the Grand Unified Theory of Democratic Presidential Politics. William Voegeli writes at OpinionJournal, yesterday: .... The narrative of Democrats trying to find a narrative might be more promising, or....

Is this the horror story of the century? Or the most heinous slander? CNN's Eason Jordan, it seems, accused the American military of "targeting" journalists. He has done so before,....

Random Poetry List IX My heart thinks as the sun comes up    that what it does is wise:    as earth borrows its light,       as pledge it takes the stars. Solomon....

Random Poetry List VIII Season Song Here's a song— stags give tongue winter snows summer goes. High cold blow sun is low brief his day seas give spray. Fern clumps....

Via Donald Luskin. For a change of pace. + + + + + NEOLOGISMS Coffee (n.); a person who is coughed upon. Flabbergasted (adj.); appalled over how much weight you....

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The current (Feb. 7) cover of Newsweek. The foible of an early deadline. Special Report: Iraq / The Insurgents: Who They Are — And Why The Elections Won't Stop Them....

Who would have thought that anybody would have the stomach to do this? Justin Katz has blogged his entire article on Andrew Sullivan. Here is my own opinion about Sullivan:....

Random Poetry List VII A loss of something ever felt I— The first that I could recollect Bereft I was—of what I knew not Too young that any should suspect....

The dominant story out of Iraq since Saturday has been the overwhelming and unexpected — to liberals, unexpected — success of the election. So, today, the Associated Press and Reuters....

According to this AP story at Freep, today: Pope John Paul II, suffering from breathing problems and the flu, was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night, Vatican officials said. The....

At Living Catholicism this week. Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has an entry in this week's Carnival.

Thanks to Margaret for sending this. + + + + + I dare you to try this. Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of....

A lesson in perspective. A reader writes: So I was mumbling to myself because I just spent a few bucks to go through the car wash to clean the dirt....

I apologize for having been a bit slow on the uptake lately. I didn't realize at the time that Chappaquiddick Fats... er... I mean the old fart senior socialist senator....

Thanks to Margaret for calling our attention to John Podhoretz's latest at the New York Post, today: When you heard about the stunning success of the Iraqi elections, were you....

Our favorite Screaming Eagle Poet is on a roll. Russ Vaughn is sending the poems faster than we can put them up. But, of course, we bloggers love it when....

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Canonist Edward Peters has an article at Ignatius Insight, Jan. 2005, which originally appeared in Catholic World Report, Dec. 2004: .... Marriage is a classic example of a public institution.....

"In Honour of America". It has been widely reported, whether jubilantly or grudgingly, that the Iraqi people turned out overwhelmingly for the election, and did so with courage, dignity, and....

Some blog-geek info. I have enabled TrackBack for new blog entries as of yesterday. Also, I have changed the individual entry archives so each entry's title, rather than its date/time....

Poems by Robert Lee Frost. Mending Wall Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And....