Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ HerbEly, Liberty Files, Midwest Conservative Journal, Rightwingsparkle, ID the Future, IowaHawk, Lead and Gold, JunkYardBlog, Hoystory.com, The....

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Coalition for Darfur X Delays and Complications. + + + + + The genocide in Darfur began more than two years ago. Since then, more than 400,000 people have died....

Rev. Al Kimel will join the Catholic Church. At Pontifications, Thursday: Below is the letter I sent to my parish today. St. Mark’s Church is a parish of approximately 200....

Silence implies consent. If you have been paying attention for a long time, Faithful Reader, you'll have known from reading The Blog from the Core that the Senate has been....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. Two Popes, One Leader, a house editorial @ The National Catholic Register (ht): Now we know.....

Random Poetry List XXXIX A lovely morn, so still, so very still, It hardly seems a growing day of Spring, Though all the odorous buds are blossoming, And the small....

... the Curt Jester @ Ignatius Insight — who puts The Blog from the Core in very good company.

By Francis W. Porretto at Eternity Road: Recent decades have seen a development in fiction, both written and visual, that I'd never have been able to predict from what preceded....

Random Poetry List XXXVIII The Mujin flowers blossom on the rolling graves, these hills are lovely, and luminous. The radiant sun goes down into the trees as one by one,....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. An Open Letter to the Kansas State Board of Education by Dr. Philip S. Skell @....

By Austin Bay at Austin Bay Blog (brackets in original): History may see Newsweek’s fatal “Koran flushing” story as the US press’ Abu Ghraib. Under any circumstances, Newsweek’s flagrant, tragic....

Random Poetry List XXXVII As when, to one who long hath watched, the morn    Advancing, slow forewarns the approach of day,    (What time the young and flowery-kirtled May    Decks the....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays. "The Phantom Professor" by Scott Jaschik @ Inside Higher Ed (ht): No one at Southern Methodist University knew....

Three sonnets by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Starlight Night Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!    O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!    The....