The crash of '05. I fried my hard drive this afternoon. With recent backups, I can restore almost everything. My major unrecoverable loss, though, is e-mail: as far as I....

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ speculative catholic, Power Line, Dyspeptic Mutterings, Musings of a Pertinacious Papist, reveries magazine, Wizbang, Quenta Nârwenion, neo-neocon,....

Some articles are so significant, they shouldn't be risked getting lost in the crowds. For such, today sees the inauguration of a new category here at The Blog from the....

By Pat Santy at Dr. Sanity (italics in original): Today we’re going to visit the Wonderful World of Denial. An appreciation of this particular psychological defense mechanism might be extremely....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. Noble Cause: Brief Wars Rarely Produce Lasting Results. Long Wars Often Do. by William J. Stuntz....

On Defeatocrats and Scott Adams & God. I commented at a couple of other blogs lately. First, at Irish Pennants (italics in original): Today it finally dawned on me: They....

As far as I can tell, I'm the only blogger on the Earth who remembered Vatican II's 40th anniversary. (Jamie came close, sort of, and Amy gave it a sideways....

The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council was concluded forty years ago today, December 8, 1965. Here are some collections of the conciliar documents: Documents of the II Vatican Council Index to....

As you have probably heard already, one Rigoberto Alpizar was killed yesterday by air marshals after claiming to have had a bomb. It seems now that he was mentally disturbed.....

The blogosphere is abuzz over the full text of Barbra Streisand's letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, available now at her website (italics in original). + +....

Vide. (Thanks, Esquire.)

Vide. (Thanks, Anchoress.)

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. Blanco's office scrambled to spin Katrina: E-mails detail effort to ensure feds took blame for slow....

This week's Catholic Carnival is at HerbEly. The Blog from the Core does not necessarily endorse every entry in the weekly Catholic Carnival.

At Urban Legends References Pages: Every day we're bombarded with e-mail of dubious origin and even more dubious veracity: messages that plead with us to find a missing kid or....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. The Freakonomics Fiasco in Perspective by Steve Sailer @ iSteve.com (ht): The most celebrated nonfiction book....

Thanks again to Craig Henry at Lead and Gold for the kind notice. And hearty thanks to Francis W. Porretto at Eternity Road for blogrolling The Blog from the Core.

By Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade: .... But if you've forgotten (or don't apply) Sun Tzu's lessons, then you are doomed. It's kind of like forgetting that 2+2=4 when you're....

Pictures at the Miss Pennyslvania Teen USA Pageant. I took these photos (well, except for one) November 27th.