Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff :Randal McCloy Goes Home

re: the only survivor of the Sago mine disaster was released from the hospital Thursday...

Bookworm Room : I see a melting pot, they see a stolen dish

re: the Mexica-Movement's take on the Los Angeles 'immigrants' march...

Here in the Bonny Glen: Home Education: Delicious and Nutritious

re: dealing with reactions and comments about homeschooling...

hat tip: Dewey's Treehouse

Joe McKeever: One Street in New Orleans

re: another update from New Orleans...

Wittingshire: Joel Martin: Be a Man

re: what it means to be a man...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Fukuyama's fabrication by Charles Krauthammer - Mar 28, 2006

re: Charles Krauthammer says Francis Fukuyama "has every right to change his mind at his convenience. He has no right to change what I said"...

Expat Yank: Reunited 61 years later

re: a Times article on the reunion of a French woman with a soldier she saved from the Germans back in 1944 after his tank broke down...

The Common Room: A Book Recommendation for the Middle/Younger Readers

re: a recommendation for the book Yang the Youngest, And His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka...

K's Cafe: The 30 Second Blog: Military Bloggers

re: a round-up of some military blog posts...

Unfathomable Zealotry

re: Richard Cohen writes "...The murder of a person for his religious belief ought to be inconceivable..."...

Wittingshire: Protests

re: during World War II, Norwegians wore paperclips to protest the Nazi occupation...

~ Pollywog Creek Porch ~: Homeschooling to Homecaring

re: Patricia found that homeschooling put her family in a better position to take in her elderly mother instead of sending her to a nursing home...

Tartan Week NYC

re: New York City's Tartan Week will be April 1-8 this year...

Human Events Online: Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob

re: Mac Johnson points out that the massive illegal immigrant rallies around the U.S. recently are business as usual in Latin American politics...

DP: Welcome

re: Project Gutenberg is looking for more volunteer proofreaders...

Dr. Helen: Menace in Europe

re: an interview at Right Wing News with author Claire Berlinski on her book Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too...

Dr. Helen: Is Forgiveness always the Answer?

re: Dr. Phil giving questionable advice (telling the family of a murder victim to forgive the murderer), versus the book Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive, by Jeane Safer, PhD...

Joe McKeever: The latest scar on America

re: another update out of New Orleans...

WorldNetDaily: Religious Right 'Using Terri'?

re: Diana Lynne, the author of Terri's Story: The Court-Ordered Death of an American Woman, takes on the methodology and charges of one of Michael Schiavo's attorneys...

For some women, Senate choice is no choice

re: some Democratic women in Pennsylvania will skip voting in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race this year (they say) if the Dems don't give them a pro-abortion candidate...

OpinionJournal - Featured Article: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

re: Charles Murray has a plan to replace the welfare state in America, and a book that explains his plan -- In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State...

Bookworm Room : More on what your church might be doing

re: more on the Presbyterian Church- USA, this time a letter from someone in the church saying that the national leadership has been hijacked by liberals while local governments remain predominantly conservative, and that many churches are refusing to send funds to the General Assembly...

SFO Mom: Book Review #8 of 2006

re: a book review of The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult...

TCS Daily - Newspapers in Trouble?

re: Glenn Harlan Reynolds has some ideas for saving the newspaper business...

Circle Six Magazine | Faith: Surrounded by Loneliness

re: a good life needs a healthy balance of communion and isolation...

CitizenLink - Features - Michigan Seeks to Stop Coercive Abortions

re: Coercive Abortion Prevention Act (CAPA), meant to help women being pressured into having an abortion...

December 26: Marie Durand, Huguenot martyr goes free at last

re: French history, Catholics vs Protestants, 1767...

K's Cafe The 30 Second Blog: Miscellaneous Bits of Life

re: life in France, etc...

Wittingshire: Visiting France

re: a blog written by someone who moved to France last summer from California...

TKS : Be of good cheer, my blogging brethren

re: Jim Geraghty notices that the Anchoress is feeling glum, and provides a pep talk and reality check for bloggers...

Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff : Desmond T. Doss Dies

re: the man famous for joining up as a conscientious objector during World War II and then being honored for his many acts of bravery as a medic has died at the age of 87...

SignOnSanDiego.com > Op-Ed > Ruben Navarrette Jr. -- The children who never leave home

re: young (and not-so-young) adults not wanting to move out on their own...

The Plight of Black Men -- Another Warning

re: why are so many young black men moving down?...

christianthinker.net : Do the North Koreans read Peter Singer?

re: the killing of disabled babies...

American Future: Moving forward

re: Dr. Demarche weighs in on Dubai...

SFO Mom: Continuing on the Nonfiction Kick

re: the book Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads by Rosalind Wiseman...

Instapundit.com - Counterprotests in Paris

re: Several thousand people, young and old, responding to the violent anti-reform student riots, turned out to demonstrate in favor of work law reform. Another demonstration is set for Sunday...

Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution: An End to ETA Terrorism

re: the announcement by the Basque terrorist group that it is declaring a permanent ceasefire...

American Anglican Council :: BlogSite: Anglican Communion Network Announces Church-Planting Initiative

re: having failed to bring Episcopalian church leadership in line with the Anglican communion, Anglicans in the United States are building the foundations for extensive Anglican church planting, apart from ECUSA...

Who Loves America?

re: The Futurist Blog looks at a Pew Research Center survey cited in the Economist, in Who Hates America? Crossing the Rubicon2 pulls an excerpt, for Who Loves America?

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Open highways and traffic jams

re: to what extent should the Internet be allowed to evolve guided by market forces, and to what extent be guided by regulation...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: The war about more than hurt feelings by Lorie Byrd - Mar 23, 2006

re: a shift in media approach in covering the military...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Joining NOW in the war against the Mommy Wars by Carrie Lukas - Mar 23, 2006

re: NOW says it wants a truce in the Mommy Wars, but advocates social engineering instead of freedom...

OPB :: OPB Radio: The Morning Mop-Up

re: Oregon news from online newspapers, compiled by Oregon Public Radio staff...

NPR : Military Frees Peace Activists Held Hostage in Iraq

re: good news out of Iraq.

See also Peace Group Grateful for Rescue of Iraq Hostages, with a link to a short interview in which NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Anita David, a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad...

CJR Daily: The Real Nano-Tech Story

re: being delighted to find a story on current applications of nanotechnology instead of wild flights of fancy about possible future uses...

CJR Daily: AP Story Serves as Political Rorschach Blot

re: the Columbia Journalism Review looks at responses to AP writer Jennifer Loven's story "Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches" and quotes Bookworm of Bookworm Room (among others)...

This isn't writing, it's typing.: Plus ça change...

re: background on the Code du Travail (put in place after the May 1968 student riots) that Villepin wants to modify and students are taking to the streets to keep in place...

Exultate Justi: Something Just Doesn't Add Up

re: not learning algebra as a kid, but enjoying learning it as an adult...

Karen Edmisten: You are what you read, Part II

re: more thoughts while reading Little Women...

Karen Edmisten: You are what you read

re: some thoughts while reading Little Women...

Red America: Sackcloth and Ashes: What's Wrong With Infanticide

re: should parents have to convince judges that their child shouldn't be killed by his doctors?...

The Book Den: Lest We Forget: Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)

re: remembering poet Phyllis McGinley on the anniversary of her birth...

From The Word Go: More Silly Educrats

re: a six-year-old girl put on detention for putting clover, rocks and dirt in a bag and putting a ponytail holder around it and giving it to a friend as a gift...

hat tip: Bookworm Room

This isn't writing, it's typing.: Runaway Rana

re: money laundering and the Middle East, etc...

Our Blue Castle: Etexts from the Online Books Page from February

re: links to etexts on history, geography, bookbinding, and book care...

OpinionJournal - Federation: Bush's Yard Sale

re: Holly L. Fretwell, a research fellow with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, talks about the Bush administration plan to sell a tiny fraction of the land now managed by the National Forest Service...

OpinionJournal - Five Best

re: Jerry Della Femina recommends five books about advertising...

YOU DUPED ME LORD: Hospital Corners

re: After sharing more of Saint Ignatius' Autobiography, Mark Mossa talks about what he learned working with severely handicapped children...

Michelle Malkin: WHO FAILED HALEIGH POUTRE?

re: round-up of stories following the release of a report in Massachusetts...

Buried Treasure Books: Top Ten Agrarian Books

re: books for homesteading, etc...

NWCN.com | Private firms replace public companies as timber owners

re: tax and business changes are prompting changes in the timber industry, with more and more timber being owned by timber-investment management organizations, or TIMOs, with pension funds and non-profit endowments being major investors in TIMOs...

Denis Boyles on France on National Review Online

re: anti-Americanism in France, and the book The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism, by Philippe Roger...

Father Thomas D. Williams on Catholic Charities & Adoption on National Review Online

re: background and reasoning on Catholic agency adoption policies...

Exultate Justi: You Should Know Her Story

re: Jared Keller is angry that some people assign sliding scales to the value of human life, and he pleas for going after the murderers of inner city children every bit as strenously as going after the killers of more suburban children...

Bookworm Room : Sad, bad women

re: the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy...

Scotsman.com Business - Trade with China - Scot starts English school - in China

re: from October 2003, a feature story on a school in China staffed by native Glaswegian teachers (that would be folks from Glasgow), teaching English to Chinese students...

The Scotsman: First minister opens Beijing venture

re: the Scottish government is so committed to building long-term links with China that it sends representatives to business openings...

Protecting wildlife is working. Perhaps too well

re: several types of wildlife have grown to record numbers in New Jersey...

Lamp may have burned out for old lighthouse

re: never mind that it doesn't look like a lighthouse any more or that it has long since been moved away from the ocean, history buffs want to save an old house that used to be a lighthouse (from 1885 to 1924) -- but time is running out...

Global Catholic News - Cardinal Demands Tighter Ethical Code at Hospital

re: Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is trying to get a Catholic hospital in the UK to adhere to Catholic moral teaching, and to educate health care professionals, patients and benefactors what that means...

Bookworm Room : Triumphing over adversity

re: being handed an awful life, but building a better one...

Charlotte Observer | 03/19/2006 | Eminent domain

re: thumbnail round-up of recent law changes and proposed changes in South Carolina, with topics ranging from eminent domain, to regulating hospital charges, to cigarette tax, to teacher pay, to lottery endowment to help a historically black university attract scientists and engineers, to cockfighting fines, to pressure for the University of South Carolina to change its mascot, to sex offender sentencing, to obesity lawsuits, to where people can build pools, to paving the way for a possible nuclear power plant, to debates on worker's comp laws, to a bill to expand "Daniel's Law," which allows mothers to drop off unwanted newborns without penalty...

My daughter was severely brain-injured :: Testimonials :: BlogsforTerri

re: another mother who didn't give up when some doctors told her to...

Cafe Hayek: De Tocqueville on the Intrinsic Value of Freedom

re: "...That which, in all times, has so strongly attached certain men's hearts to freedom, are its own attractions, its own peculiar charm, independent of its benefits...," etc...

Expat Yank: Democracy or "Otto-cracy"?

re: thinking aloud about the chances of (and the need for) democracy to push jihadism back, with a glance at what happened when Otto I got things rolling on the "Holy Roman Empire" back in 951...

Hollywood, Herod and The Massacre of Innocence

re: another movie lover who worries about some of the content of movies these days (but not necessarily in the ways you might expect)...

hat tip: Best of the GodBlogs

American Life League's National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day 2006

re: Tuesday, April 25, has been designated National Pro-Life T-shirt Day by the American Life League, which has some really eye-catching T-shirts for this year...

Via Catholic Fire via SFO Mom

SFO Mom: Terri Schiavo, R.I.P

re: another person who couldn't -- and still can't -- understand how a person in a hospital or nursing home, etc., could be deliberately starved to death...

Either End of the Curve: Lucre And The Muse

re: a collection about writing and being paid (or not) for writing...

Wittenberg Gate: Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo: Anniversary Edition, pt. 1

re: links to posts around the blogosphere...

David's Daily Diversions: Desert Island Books

re: meme/ ten Christian books to have on a desert island with you...

Cafe Hayek: Enterprise Africa!

re: Don Boudreaux links to his wife Karol's recent dispatch from Rwanda...

Cafe Hayek: Is Fair Trade Fair?

re: Russell Roberts writes that "fair trade" doesn't work the way some people like to think it does...

FOXNews.com - Foxlife: Entertainment and Lifestyle News - Fox Features - Rock, Paper, Scissors, the Sport

re: there are now "Rock, paper, scissors" tournaments for adults, drawing international contestants. Make sure your sense of humor is along ...

Stand Firm: One Story of Conversion

re: a lawyer goes from supporting abortion rights to recognizing "the fetus as a person capable of leaping in his mother’s womb" and finds herself at odds with the ABA and with the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Church...

Minneapolis goes wireless (1906 edition)

A hundred years ago, Minneapolis was getting its first Marconi wireless station...

A Rose By Any Other Name: Economics 101

re: using a Thomas Sowell article on the French riots over employment laws as a starting point, Anna talks about earning a paycheck...

OpinionJournal - Extra: Two Cheers for Nancy Pelosi

re: Mallory Factor asks "Have America's entrepreneurs and corporate leaders found a new voice of regulatory sanity in, of all people, Nancy Pelosi?" (at least in regards to "Sarbox" or Sarbanes-Oxley)...

Wittenberg Gate: Terri Schiavo Remembered

re: Dory is collecting links to thoughtful posts about Terri Schiavo...

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred: Cuppa Kid? A Reader Email

re: asking the question, "Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"...

hat tip: Dr. Sanity

Anne Morse on Yale on National Review Online

re: as a parent, she has some trouble with the Ivy League...

Semicolon: Book-Spotting #7

re: links to book-related posts...

Wittingshire: Eleven-Year-Old Girls

re: when you invite two girls to your house and then find out the girls are currently at odds...

Wittingshire: Enlightenment

re: nice quote on the value of spiritual exercises...

Bookworm Room has moved

re: Bookworm Room has moved to WordPress...

Elephants in Academia: Picture of the Day: "Send the Bourgeoisie to the Gulag!"

re: the French youth rioting over moves to make it more likely they will be hired (although, to be sure, they don't see it that way, instead seeing it as a blow to job security)...

WordPress : About

re: just checking out the options...

Ministry is Stranger Than it Used to Be: The Challenge of Postmodernism

re: preachers have to understand what they're up against...

Includes reference in passing to Walter Truett Anderson's Reality Isn't What it Used to Be (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990)...

Boy Scouts Under Fire, Again

re: the Lost Angeles Times cheers a decision to not let Sea Scouts use the Berkeley marina...

Self Publishing: The POD Book Business in 2006

re: a look at print on demand (POD), other business options...

Ok, I'm Hooked. I Admit It. I Like It.

re: Albert Mohler joins the ranks of people hooked on Sudoku puzzles...

Challies Dot Com: He Who Frames The Terms Of The Debate...

re: the marketing of abortion, the shifts in feminist rhetoric (since too many women are making the 'wrong' choices), and the book The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian...

YOU DUPED ME LORD: Now Taking Orders

re: the book Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us, by Mark Mossa and others, is due for release next week...

YOU DUPED ME LORD: Ides-Not Just for March Anymore

re: Ides come every month, not just in March...

Note: The Penguin English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Penguin Books, 2003) says: ...in the ancient Roman calendar, the 15th day of March, May, July or October or the 13th day of any other month, or the week preceding any of these dates; compare CALENDS, NONES...

American Future: Fact vs. Faith

re: another article trying to point out the difference between Islamic extremist thought and Western civilization...

Nickel (United States coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

re: the history of "nickels" in the United States, from cents and three-cent coins made of nickel alloy or copper-nickel, through the five cent coins called nickels today...

Benning's Writing Pad: Classic Beauty: Is It Ever Out Of Style?

re: art by Daniel Ridgway Knight, classical music (Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Georges Enesco aka George Enescu)...

The Anchoress : Better to live briefly, and beloved...

re: link to stories of women who refused abortion despite pressure from their doctor...

Space Milestones in Song

re: lists songs related to space flight. (Has error on date for Moon Rider, which came out in time to be in the 1979-80 tour, I think...)

The Paragraph Farmer: Remembering Astronaut Pete Conrad

re: a thumb's up for the book: Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond, by Howie Klausner and Nancy Conrad (New American Library, 2005)...

Louisiana Weekly - Are we wasting precious resources?

re: Fr. Jerome LeDoux wonders if we've cut ourselves short by not recognizing the talents of "intellectually challenged" individuals...

BreakPoint | The Real Point

re: the savage irony of a culture that can celebrate autistic basketball player Jason McElwain but target disabled children for annihilation...

Canada Releases Abortion Numbers : 103,768 Babies Killed in 2003

re: new numbers from Statistics Canada (aka StatsCan)...

The Scotsman - Business - Government denies pension 'guilt'

re: more UK pension schemes confusion, with another watchdog demanding that the government (read taxpayers) bail even more people out, if they worked for a company that went bust...

(Note: Mentions the 2004 pension protection fund, or PPF.)

The Scotsman - Business - BBC advised to take fun seriously in the future

re: the BBC was given a ten-year blueprint along with an extension of its license. The governors were abolished, to be replaced with a new BBC Trust. Six new goals for the Beeb were added...

Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Myths & Mysteries - Da Vinci Code effect 'could spell disaster' for Rosslyn

re: From August 8, 2005, an article on a small chapel in Scotland that faces being overrun by tourists because of its mention in the Dan Brown book and its use as a filming site for the movie...

OpinionJournal - Five Best

re: Roger Kimball shares his five favorite comic novels...

Semicolon: River Rising by Athol Dickson

re: another favorable review for this novel...

Instead of Another Game of Minesweeper

re: Rhonda Rhea's blog...

Mom 2 Mom Connection : Rhonda Rhea ... A Funny Gal

re: author of "Who Put the Cat in the Fridge?" and other books...

Oregon Abortions Fall to Their Lowest Level Since 1998, Down 20 Percent

re: but, as of 2004, still in the five figures...

Why GOP Leaders Worry About Pro-Life Wins - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com

re: Newsweek reporters find Republicans who aren't entirely happy with South Dakota, and Democrats who are hoping it will be Republicans painted as extremists for a while...

Concerned Women for America - Abortion Lies v. Abortion Realities

re: information that flies in the face of conventional leftist wisdom...

GreenvilleOnline.com -Local News-Pastor follows unorthodox path to create icon for pope - (3/12/2006)

re: retired Lutheran pastor makes and presents icons to Pope Benedict XVI and His All Holiness Bartholomew I... (Via Amy Welborn)

open book: The exhausting life of Jacques Maritain

re: Twentieth century French author, Catholic literature in France, etc....

A Lady's Ruminations: Bishops to Dems: Not Good Enough

re: Three U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' officials fire back at the 55 U.S. House Democrats who recently issued a statement on what it meant to them to be Catholic (but who fell rather short of upholding the church's moral teaching on abortion, etc.)...

The Vol Abroad: Best in show

re: an American dog won the Crufts dog show in Britain over the weekend, the second year in a row that's happened...

News From The Associated Press: Ex-game show host, wife die in plane crash

re: I don't care that Peter Tomarken hosted game shows - he and his wife died performing a mission of mercy, trying to provide free air transport for a needy patient, for Angel Flight West...

Catholic News Agency: Italian intellectuals: moral and spiritual crisis prevents Europe from reacting to Islamic terrorism

re: March 1, 2006, article on Italian intellectuals presenting a manifesto blasting the moral and spiritual crisis in Europe, and proposing ways forward. Among other things, the signers acknowledge the distinction between church and state “without giving in to the secular temptation to relegate the religious dimension to solely the private sphere.”...

Crosswalk.com - S. Michael Craven's Weblog: A New Italian Renaissance?

re: More than 70 Italian leaders in government, trade unions, and universities, presented a manifesto countering the postmodern attitudes in Europe...

Townhall.com :: AP - Students Invade Paris School in Protest

re: the French government tries to make it so that employers might dare to hire more young people (by giving them the option of actually firing those who don't work out), and a couple of hundred young people turn violent because (they say) it gives them less job security...

Townhall.com :: Life and how to live it, Part V by Mike S. Adams Mar 13, 2006

re: "...Self-pity and gratitude are mortal enemies. Where one exists the other cannot. Since both are highly contagious, individuals must choose gratitude before becoming too thankless to do otherwise..."...

Pro-life women in S.D. legislature destroying abortion myths - (BP)

re: in South Dakota, Republican and Democrat women in the state legislature have teamed up in a pro-life, pro-family caucus called Women for Women...

BreakPoint | Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death

re: Jordan Ballor looks at the "right to die" and the "duty to live"...

Dr. Sanity: Why Kant Couldn't, and Still Can't

re: how Postmodernism is a reincarnation of a Kantian rejection of reason...

Dr. Sanity: DEPRAVED THOUGHTS, SAVING SOULS, AND TERRORIST BEHAVIOR

re: the death of a 'pacifist' at the hands of terrorists, and the reaction of his colleagues...

GM's Corner : Conquering Fear!

re: GM Roper, currently battling cancer, has a nice post on putting fear in its place. Includes several good quotes, including a great one from Eleanor Roosevelt...

NPR : Phoenix Grows and Grows

re: Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city in the United States, and growing rapidly. NPR looks at Phoenix in a three-part series...

News :: WKOW 27 - Madison, Wisconsin: The Future of St. Raphael's

re: it's been almost a year since arson destroyed a Madison Catholic church. The Diocese of Madison is now saying that it will decide this summer whether to rebuild on the site or elsewhere...

A Circle of Quiet: More on Lent

re: links to NRO and James Akin...

PORTS WITHOUT A HOME - Yahoo! News

re: op/ed by William F. Buckley...

Law Students for the Right to Life - Rebel With a Cause

re: Elizabeth J. Bohn writes about a several-day event meant to introduce fellow law students to the counter-cultural views of pro-lifers...

Momentum Builds for Exodus Mandate with Marlin Maddoux's New Book

re: the book Public Education Against America, and the call by some to get Christian children out of public schools and into Christian education...

The Ithaca Journal - ACLU leader discusses religion at CU

re: Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, talking at Cornell about religious issues in the United States...

"Not One Dime" by James Carville and Paul Begala

re: adapted from the book Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future by James Carville and Paul Begala, this March 2006 Washington Monthly article is subtitled "A radical plan to Abramoff-proof politics"...

Semicolon: Book-Spotting #6

re: links to book-related posts (rewriting Jane Austen, books about histories of houses, The Virginian, the power of great literature, Gilead...)...

This isn't writing, it's typing.: What if they gave a civil war and nobody came?

re: the MSM trying to find signs that civil war is breaking out in Iraq...

A Rose By Any Other Name: He's Home

re: Anna links to an "I'm home" post by a Marine adjusting to life in the States after a tour in the Middle East...

USNews.com: Michael Ramirez cartoon on pointing fingers Mardi Gras style

re: political cartoon...

USNews.com: Washington Whispers

re: Hollywood documentary filmmaker Patrick Dollard, injured in roadside bomb attack, plans to keep filming his documentary series on life with the marines in Iraq...

Also, the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., is selling "I Miss Bill" bumper stickers...

USNews.com: Washington Whispers

re: John Kerry, Max Cleland, and Wade Sanders "have hatched plans to help some 70 Democratic Iraq war vets win office"...

Reasoned Audacity: International Women's Day

re: National Review Online symposium on "Women the World Should Know"...

Misunderestimated Germans : Clashing Mindsets

re: learning about America, finding out the media isn't always reliable...

The Common Room: Family Reading

re: excellent books for children, and the value to a family of reading together...

The Common Room: Suspects in Alabama Church Burnings Arrested

re: more on the church arsons in Alabama...

The Common Room: Cold War Reading Has Contemporary Applications

re: Helen MacInnes spy thrillers, Witness by Whittaker Chambers, Road to Serfdom by Hayek...

The Common Room: Shock or Awe, a Right to Life Battle

re: discussing the Harvard right-to-life poster flap...

RealClearPolitics - Commentary - Professors of Pretense by George Will

re: a look at the Supreme Court's ruling that universities that take federal money must allow military recruiters, and at the tangled objections of some law professors. Includes the delightful observation in the opinion about law school students vs. high school students...

Elephants in Academia: Ouch.

re: links to a Ben Stein post on Hollywood and a Michael Barone post on the Supreme Court and academia...

Elephants in Academia: Picture(s) of the Day: Some thoughts on a cartoon and a photograph

re: perceptions of the American military and its civilian leadership...

The Albany Herald - The Zone Archives

re: "Queen of waffles", a tribute to a friendly waitress and hospice worker...

OpinionJournal - Poisoned Quills

re: book review of Infamous Scribblers, by Eric Burns...

Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff :Connecting With Your Kids� by Timothy Smith

re: book review, highly recommends the book...

Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff : How Long Can You Keep A Secret?

re: an archeological find of 4,000 year old ship timbers...

Slobokan's Site O; Schtuff : Controlling Everyday Citizens

re: calling the cops when somebody buys cold medicine for his kids...

Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff: FairTax Blogburst #3

re: more information on the "Fair Tax" and why its supporters think it is a good idea...

Lofted Nest: A Catholic Journey: Picture This

re: frustrations with a press that tries to equate Bush with Nixon, Iraq with Vietnam, and predictions with science...

A Rose By Any Other Name: Honor a Hero

re: different ways to support people in the military and their families...

montgomeryadvertiser.com: Investigators tell how they found church fire suspects

re: arrests have been made in the string of church fires in Alabama...

Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Great Scots - A to Z - Kenneth Grahame

re: a short biography of the author of The Wind in the Willows, born March 8, 1859...

The Common Room: All Ideas Are Not Created Equal

re: links to an article at The American Thinker by Selwyn Duke...

The Common Room: New York Times Reporter Admires Patriarchy

You must promise to read all of this long post, or none at all. You will miss the point entirely if you skim or skip or rely on the headline...

Bookworm Room: More feminist myths foisted on women

re: in general, women married to 1950s style guys get more actual help around the house than those married to sensitive 1990s style guys. Includes a reference to the book The Second Shift, by Arlie Hochschild...

Oh How I Love Jesus - The Journey of Flat Alexis - Day 3 - The King Ranch

re: another person toting a doll around, giving it a tour. (We had friends who did this for a young relative who lived elsewhere. They had a ton of fun doing it.)...

Vivificat! : Boston liberal columnist despairs of change in the Catholic Church

re: a column by Joan Vennochi, writing in the Boston Globe, asking if liberals should leave the Catholic Church...

OKIE on the LAM - In LA : Yeeeeeee Haawwwww - Conservatives Get a Two-fer!

OkieBoy is happy about the ROTC on campus ruling from the Supreme Court and South Dakota's new abortion rules signed into law by the Governor...

The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Pro-Life Posters Spark Debate

re: pro-life posters being torn down at Harvard. One of the posters features a named baby (Elena), with the words “I’m 25 days old...and my heart already BEATS!!”...

Bookworm Room: Setting the Katrina record straight

re: links to an American thinker article reviewing a Popular Mechanics cover story that debunks major myths surrounding Hurricane Katrina...

FOXNews.com - Business News - New $10 Bill Set for Circulation

re: the colorized version begins circulation...

The Beehive: Ticonderoga code

re: "the odd and endearing shorthand that develops within a family and between close friends -- the easy code language that emerges from days and years of sharing context"...

The Beehive: In Memory of Missey Gray

re: a young mother active in Ambleside homeschooling support online has died unexpectedly, during childbirth. Prayers requested...

Friday Cat Blogging - F9F Panther: Murdoc Online

re: cool picture of military aircraft (these have their wings folded up)...

Background Note/U.S. Department of State: United Arab Emirates

re: overview of the United Arab Emirates...

American Future: A UAE Primer

re: the United Arab Emirates in a nutshell...

The American Spectator: A Pineapple or a Grenade?

re: Patrick O'Hannigan points out that we could use more journalists with knowledge of the military...

hat tip: Bookworm Room

Betsy's Page: Government planning versus accomplishment

re: D-Day, and modern expectations of government...

Expat Yank: "Every One?"

re: Sir Menzies' comments on Guantanamo, held up against a look at German POWs in Britain in 1946...

The Anchoress : "You are embarassing the angels"

re: The Anchoress takes up Peggy Noonan's challenge, adds Chesterton's "What's Wrong With the World", and runs with it...

Elephants in Academia: Hugo Chavez is not a ladies' man

re: two top female politicians in Latin America, newly elected President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, and Lourdes Flores Nano, a frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Peru, are distancing themselves from Chavez...

Cafe Hayek: Remember outsourcing?

re: more information technology jobs today than at the height of the dot-com boom (i.e., new jobs have more than made up for jobs that have migrated to other countries)...

Cafe Hayek: Mental health

re: the depression and Vietnam defense put forth by the attorneys for former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) prior to sentencing...

Cafe Hayek: Government Ain't Us

re: what constitutes "we"?...

Institute for Policy Innovation

re: "Advocating lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a smaller, less-intrusive government"...

Davids Medienkritik: Deutschland, Deutschland unter alles...

re: in a recent poll, people in the United States and Venezuela led the world in being proud of their country, while Germans were in the bottom 10 nations in the survey...

Transatlantic Intelligencer :: Is Freedom of Thought Under Threat in France?

re: from December 5, 2005 -- how a partisan press has manipulated the news and interviews...

Bookworm Room: Reporter, educate thyself!

re: reporters whose ignorance allows them to be manipulated by masterful propagandists, plus a couple of reviews of The Other War by Stephanie Gutmann...

Brenda Coulter: Good Books

re: books she has read at least five times, and would happily read that many more times. (Includes The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, which, now that she mentions it, I'd like to reread myself some day)...

No rules. Just write.

re: Inspirational romance writer Brenda Coulter's blog. (Right now she's wrapping up a blog tour that got her as high as number two on Technorati's Popular Books list)...

Actual Unretouched Photo: Another Commercial Interruption

re: recommendation for book by new writer Brenda Coulter. Also has link to Coulter's blog...

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: Embarrassing the Angels

re: "...America has become creepy for women who think of themselves as ladies. It has in fact become assaultive."...

Mommy Life: Integrating the Sacred and the Secular

re: how it can be hard when you want to follow Christ's teaching but are surrounded by professed Christians with hard hearts...

AMERICAN FUTURE - Respect

re: Tom Brokaw interviewing Vernon Baker, who was with the all-black 92nd infantry in World War II. The question was why he and the others in his platoon were willing to risk their lives for a country that treated them as second class citizens, or worse. Part of the answer: "it's necessary to give respect before you can expect it."...

AMERICAN FUTURE - The Birth of Appeasement

re: On March 7, 1936, three thousand German troops marched into the Rhineland demilitarized zone. Marc has lead-up and aftermath...

AMERICAN FUTURE - When should we fight?

re: MIT Public Opinion Research Training lab survey from last November, asking people whether they'd approve of the use of U.S. military troops under certain circumstances, and broken down into Democrats, Independents, Republicans...

Betsy's Page : Howard Zinn, Historians Against War, and Lord Haw-Haw

re: noting the (rather unfortunate) similarities between Historians Against War (HAW), and Lord Haw-Haw of World War II...

Either End of the Curve: Crime Pays In Pension Benefits

re: I'm not sure I have this straight. A Japanese gangster can collect welfare checks from the government if his gang provides a letter saying they've decided he's unfit to work or he's left the fold???...

NashvilleFiles Blog: Armed Pacisfism

re: being a nice, peaceful person -- but acknowledging evil and being prepared to defend yourself and your family with force if necessary...

The Kevin Fobbs Show: Terri's Day

re: radio talk show host Kevin Fobbs is helping promote the idea of "Terri's Day" every year on March 31...

Garrison Keillor: The magnetic power of the herd

re: the dream of living in the woods by oneself, but the knowing that he would miss being with others of his own kind. Includes a nice bit of conversation picked up while eavesdropping, between a couple of guys, one who has just had it confirmed he has cancer, and the guy with cancer is joking...

Must every baby be wanted?

re: Barbara Curtis replies to an e-mail from someone in the "every child should be a wanted child" camp...

Bookworm Room: Hollywood and simple patriotism

re: Hollywood used to turn out movies that celebrated Americans and America, and also films that boosted our image overseas. Bookworm has a fondness for the old musicals, especially the old war musicals...

Other books by John R. Erickson

re: Hank the Cowdog's creator writes nonfiction books, too...

Muhammad, the Holocaust and Good Behavior | The Brussels Journal

re: how folkways and legislation are contributing to the problems in Europe...

Happy Catholic: You Are Embarrassing the Angels

re: Julie D. agrees with Peggy Noonan, and The Anchoress, et. al., that it's time to look people in the eye and tell them, as a lady but pointedly, when they are "hurting the culture, hurting human dignity, denying the stature of a human being"....

Divided House: Dutch Quarrel over Nature of Europe's Culture War | The Brussels Journal

re: secularists using the cartoon affair to attack religion in general. Also, the claim that in Europe there is a three-way culture war, not the two-way war in the U.S., i.e., in Europe "secularists, Christians and Muslims. On some issues Christians and secularists team up against Muslims, on others issue secularists fight Christians and Muslims alike."...

Anti-Jihad Manifesto Misses the Point | The Brussels Journal

re: the twelve international authors who put out "Together facing the new totalitarianism" are off-track, as Paul Belien explains with a bit of history...

CBSNews.com Who's Who Person

re: "Angels of Death?" section. Short write-ups and photos of nine nurses accused of murdering patients...

Angels of Death: the male nurses, treacherous killers - The Crime library

re: leads off with Charles Cullen case...

Semicolon: Lenten Thoughts

re: asking for books for people who would like to recognize the lead-up to Resurrection Sunday, but haven't been raised to celebrate Lent...

George Neumayr on Democrats & Abortion on National Review Online

re: "Why are Democrats calling abortion bad? Real "pro-choicers" want to know."...

Archdiocese of Denver - Welcome

re: official website for the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver...

Rocky Mountain News: Chaput to flock: hit back

re: upcoming laws seen to be systematically attacking the Catholic community...

Feinstein blocks nomination of Idaho judge to 9th Circuit

re: A judge is opposed because he's not from California (and one of his supporters says that really the seat does belong to Idaho so his nomination is OK). Our government in action...

VOLPAC

re: Volunteer Political Action Committee, working to elect Republican candidates throughout the country...

Suitably Flip: The Definitive UAE Port Deal Blogger

re: Senator Frist's blogging on the issue...

Weekend Stubble: Homeward Hardbound (Pt II)

re: there is a trend right now for books about the history of houses...

Elephant Walk: The butler is dead! Long live the butler!

re: the Ask Jeeves search engine has booted Jeeves and become just Ask, to the relief of certain Wodehouse fans, who felt that the search engine was more like Ukridge than Jeeves...

Elephant Walk: Let me clarify this...

re: a tribute to Don Knotts...

Brandywine Books: Elephant Walk

re: recommends Overlook Press' blog, called Elephant Walk, and also notes that Overlook is republishing P.G. Wodehouse...

Photios: French Nuclear Weapons Upgrade

re: the French looking like the ones most likely to use a nuclear weapon under current political conditions, with info on how France is said to be improving its arsenal...

Photios: George Clooney - Right Side of History?

re: contrasting actor George Clooney's talk about 'the importance of being on the right side of history' with what the Coalition has accomplished in Iraq just in February...

Zogby Online Polls

re: sign up to participate in online polls...

The Common Room: Hey, HeadGirl! Here's a Blog For You

re: recommends "The Apostrophe Catastrophe"...

The Columbus Dispatch - Life / Arts

re: Mount Vernon has commissioned three models of George Washington -- and 19, 45, and 57 years of age. A couple of British artists got the job. Richard Pyle of Associated Press reports...

hat tip: The Bernoulli Effect

The Bernoulli Effect: Those "Anti-Immigrant Extremists"

re: legal versus illegal immigrants, legal protest versus stalking, with focus on a director of a Maryland organization that runs a day labor hiring center who is training volunteers to videotape members of the Minutemen group, and to picket their homes, workplaces, and their children's schools...

The American Spectator: The Literary Counter-Reformation

re: Mark Gauvreau Judge looks at the book Catholic Matters by Richard John Neuhaus, and at George Weigel's latest book, God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church (with a note that Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic has recently been released in paperback)...

OpinionJournal - Mapping Voyages Back in Time

re: Barrymore Laurence Scherer, who usually covers classical music for The Wall Street Journal, takes a look at the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and at Chapel Hill's Ancient World Mapping Center...

Historical Novel Society: Forthcoming Historical Fiction for 2006

re: soon-to-be-published historical fiction, plus archives for 2005, 2004, 2003...

Elephants in Academia: Ports and Iraq -- two quick views

re: the Dubai UAE ports kerfuffle, and Victor Davis Hanson's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, "At War With Ourselves: We're winning in Iraq. Let's not lose at home."...

Betsy's Page

re: dissent, hate crimes, Anne Applebaum op-ed, life in today's UK, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the approach that Americans should take toward despicable ideas...

Power Line: A Bad Mix

re: post built around the Michael Fumento article on cooking scientific data to promote an agenda...

Blogotional: Evangelicals And Global Warming...

re: looking with disapproval (from several quarters) at the Evangelical Climate Initiative...

How To Be A Christian And Still Go To Church: Welcome To This New Blog

re: a blogger organizing his posts from another blog, with the eye on producing a book...

Adoniram Judson Baptist missionary to Burma - Christian Biography Resources

re: several writings about and by Adoniram Judson...

Dr. Sanity: PRESCRIPTION OF DOOM

re: Pat Santy is tired of the "prescription of doom that is whisked out on a daily basis these days by the news media", especially in Iraq, especially because "Here's an astonishing concept: the U.S. has already won the war in Iraq; just as we won in Afghanistan." She explains...

Dr. Sanity: THE COOLEST THING TO DO IN DUBAI

re: a ski resort in Dubai (think something like an enclosed water park, below freezing)...

AP Wire | 03/01/2006 | Barbour says he'd likely sign bill to ban most abortions in Miss.

re: legislation similar to South Dakota's is working its way to the Governor's desk in Mississippi...

House Democrats Release Catholic Statement of Principles

re: "A majority of Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House led by Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn.-3) today released a statement of principles. Signed by 55 House Democrats, the statement documents how their faith influences them as lawmakers"...

Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff : Charlotte Wyatt: Signs Of Improvement

re: the doctors withheld treatment, but she didn't get worse like they expected. Hang in there, Charlotte...

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

re: blog "Helping Academic Librarians "Keep Up" With News and Developments In Higher Education"...

The Railroad, Then and Now

re: History, the transcontinental railroad, comuter software, types of companies, the long tail, a book recommendation for Little Britches by Ralph Moody (this post doesn't fit easily into a category, but it covers a lot of ground)...

The Long Tail: Death of the Blockbuster, Part IV

re: part of an ongoing series. In this post he notes that The Long Tail book is now available for pre-order (but cautions the cover and subtitle might change between now and publication, which at this point looks like June 30)...

John Buchan Society

re: society devoted to author and Scottish favorite son John Buchan...

Hansard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

re: the written accounts of parliamentary debates in Westminster system of government (UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka), modified for clarity and to reduce redundancies, with written answers to questions formally posed by members...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

re: famous author and Governor General of Canada...