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Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ ut unum sint, Instapundit.com, Ancient and Future Catholic Musings, IowaHawk, Catholic Light, Silflay Hraka, Power Line, Wittingshire, Lead and Gold, Eutychus Fell: Becoming Catholic, Lex Communis, Dyspeptic Mutterings, Pontifications, little green footballs, Pontifications (again), Mere Comments, Armavirumque, Austin Bay Blog, In the Red Zone, Evolution News & Views, HerbEly, and Rest Across The River.

Mr. Blue @ ut unum sint:

I'm reading Mr. Blue, a novel by Myles Connolly published in 1928 by Loyola and recently republished by Loyola Classics. Amy also comments on it — I have it because she was kind enough to send me a copy of this and another volume in the series.

I had never heard of it, though it seems to have some legendary status....

Some People Are Getting Desperate @ Instapundit.com:

.... Actually, I have blogged about Gannon/Guckert quite a few times, as a simple search would illustrate. But I agree with Rik Hertzberg that it's a nothinggate. Or, as Marc Cooper says, a "big yawn." I don't think it's in any way comparable to the use of forged documents in an attempt to swing a Presidential election — and I think that anyone who does think so is pretty much beyond rational discourse....

Praying During Lent @ Ancient and Future Catholic Musings:

One of the traditional Lenten disciplines is prayer (along with fasting and almsgiving). Prayer is a great privilege of communicating with God and yet, for such a sublime act, it doesn't seemed to get used a whole lot by a great many people. I wish I had a dollar for everyone who said he didn't have time for prayer or for those people who say their prayer lives are dry and boring. Communion with the Almighty may not always be exciting, but it should always be meaningful and plentiful....

The Truth is Out There @ IowaHawk:

Iowahawk Special Commentary
by "Deep Blog" ....

You can have social justice, or you can have lots of immigrants, but you can't have both @ Catholic Light:

Immigration is a complex issue, without a doubt. Many of the questions related to it are economic, and thus highly debatable. Neither the side favoring reduced immigration levels nor the side favoring high immigration levels can agree on the basic facts involved. Even a relatively straighforward question such as, "Are immigrants a net drain on the economy?" is contentious....

A Deadly Dull Discourse On Web Statistics @ Silflay Hraka:

Dave Winer aside, large numbers of bloggers can charitably by described as obsessed with web statistics. People make all sorts of claims based on their reading of them. When they're up, its "Top of the World, Ma!" When they're down, it's Hunter S. Thompson time.

It's a slim reed that bears responsibility for such behavior, especially given the fuzziness inherent to creation of such statistics....

A rare greatness @ Power Line:

Today [Tue. Feb. 22] is the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington's greatness was the rarest, the most necessary, and, at this remove in time, the hardest to understand....

Being Yourself @ Wittingshire:

When I was five, my three-year-old brother walked me to my kindergarten classroom every day. I was shy, and the little boys up and down the hallway knew it.

"They aren't mean," my brother said. "They're just talking to you."

"I know. But I don't know what to say back."

So he walked me to class, smiling and nodding at the boys who called greetings to us.

This is how I remember it, though I know it's incorrect; my brother didn't talk until he was four. I talked for him, translating his expressions and gestures, helping our parents understand him. I talked for him, and he walked me to class....

Just some things that bug me @ Lead and Gold:

About the way the MSM covers bloggers in the wake of Eason and Rather....

Rite of Election @ Eutychus Fell: Becoming Catholic:

The day opened cold and full of heavy snow, a sign of how early this process comes this year. My sponsor and I drove to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception early because we'd been warned the church would be full. Here is a picture from the Cathedral, you can click on it to enlarge it: ....

Susan Estrich is losing her mind (again). @ Lex Communis:

This is almost a piece with the famous liberal meltdowns of the last year, including Lawrence ("You're a creepy liar") O'Donnell and Tom ("Shut up") Shales. In this case Susan Estrich — last seen suggesting in a published column that the Democrats should base their campaign on the possibility that George Bush might "fall off the wagon" — takes prominent liberal Michael Kinsley to task for not having enough women columnists at the L.A. Times. Except that what set her off was a column by a woman writer on the subject of the marginalization of women writers because of their obsession with feminism. So what Estrich really means is that she wants more "women" writers — i.e., writers who share her agenda whatever their sex....

Extra, extra: National Catholic Reporter lashes out at Catholic laity! @ Dyspeptic Mutterings:

.... They aren't concerned so much with empowered laity as with power itself....

Did the Church "create" the Scripture? @ Pontifications:

Over at Here We Stand, Christopher Atwood has taken Shari DeSilva sharply to task for asserting that the Church wrote and compiled the Scriptures. Personally, I believe that his article is far too harsh in its critique. Shari is neither a Catholic apologist nor a theologian. She is a thoughtful believer who has shared with us, in non-polemical fashion, the whys of her conversion to Catholicism. Atwood should have cut her some serious slack, in my humble pontificatorial opinion.

But I agree that Shari’s language about Church and Scripture needs to be sharpened up....

Congressman Says Rove Planted CBS Memos @ little green footballs:

Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security.

An LGF operative was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Rep. Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed the fake CBS memos were planted by Karl Rove to discredit Dan Rather, and divert attention from President Bush’s “draft dodging.” ....

Hell is Eternal Blogging @ Pontifications:

One of my favorite books is C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, and one of my favorite characters in that book is the apostate Anglican bishop who refuses to acknowledge the existence of Hell despite his residence in it. Here’s a snippet of conversation with one of his friends who dwells in Heaven: ....

Mass Entertainment Is What's Left After Popular Culture Disappears @ Mere Comments:

Touchstone contributing editor, Anthony Esolen, replies to these letters on movies from our readers: ....

Ward Churchill: Six Degrees of Separation @ Armavirumque:

.... If, as everyone keeps saying, the fellow who compared the victims of 9/11 to "little Eichmanns" is beneath contempt, why is he not, after that acknowledgment, also beneath comment?

Well, for one thing, as I have noted, Ward Churchill is not the problem. He is merely a symptom of a much deeper disease, interesting and worthy of attention for the light he sheds upon the larger issue, which is the extent to which higher education is captive of the anti-American, politically correct Left....

Staying Power @ In the Red Zone:

Occasionally, an op-ed piece strikes a note so precise and correct, it resounds in the imagination for days. That's the experience I had, at any rate, reading Arthur Herman's essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Iwo Jima," which dealt with one of the bloodiest battles of World War II — a ferocious fight against Imperial Japan that began 50 years ago today [Sat. Feb. 19]....

Iraqi Elections As The Defining Moment: Now Hillary Clinton Says Saddam's Cronies Have Failed @ Austin Bay Blog:

Early July 2004, a week or so after the CPA left Baghdad and Iyad Allawi’s interim Iraqi government took over: I was sitting in the Corps’ Joint Operations Center (JOC) in Al Faw Palace, Baghdad, drinking a big cup of tea. The JOC had a huge screen covering an entire wall, like a movie theater screen divided into ceiling-high panels capable of displaying multiple computer images and projections. A viewer could visually hopscotch from news to weather to war. In the upper right-hand corner of one panel Fox News flickered silently — and for the record, occasionally CNN or Al Jazeera would flicker there as well. Beneath Fox ran my favorite channel, live imagery from a Predator UAV circling somewhere over Iraq. That July day the Predator appeared to be flying above an irrigation canal....

Derbyshire VI: Behe's Bacterial Flagellum — Still Stirring Up Trouble for Darwin's Defenders @ Evolution News & Views:

John Derbyshire is on The Corner arguing that we can never safely infer that certain biological structures were designed. To a reader who asserted that organizational complexity cannot arise from impersonal processes, Derbyshire replies, "How do you know it can't? It is true that the genesis of organizational complexity is not currently well understood; but to leap from that to telling me we shall NEVER be able to find a natural-law explanation for it is just dogma."

Derbyshire's argument is worth confronting because it represents the opinion of leading Darwinists. Biologist Kenneth Miller, for instance, routinely makes just such an argument. Design theorist William Dembski responds thus: ....

Use Myth and Poetry to Teach Ethics @ HerbEly:

Yesterday I questioned the effectiveness of teaching ethics in the business and intelligence world. Here is my column, recycled from October, 2001 on how poetry and myth can help us find “knowledge of (God’s) will for us and the power to carry it out.” ....

John Lennon's Imagine-ary Fiend @ Rest Across The River:

Driving back home this afternoon I heard John Lennon's "Imagine" on the radio for what must be the ten thousandth time. When it was over, the DJ gushed in predictable fashion, "that's a dream we can all share." I gagged....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 02/26/05 08:06:05 AM
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