K's Cafe: The 30 Second Blog: Delicious Railroad

re: a train ride in France (and a fellow passenger doing daddy duty)...

Holding Short @ 33 and Bravo: Let's Get Real Monday

re: flying a plane to relax and re-energize...

hat tip: Randi

Bookworm Room : Why Johnny shouldn�t read

re: has the top question for parents with children in public schools shifted from "Why can't Johnny read?" to "Why should my child read this drek?"...

Brandywine Books

re: book design must recommend the book, etc....

Brandywine Books

re: Lars Walker was cataloging an old book, translated from German to Danish and published in 1874, and briefly imagined what it would be like to be able to go back in time and tell the book's author what the future held -- but decided he wouldn't have the heart...

Touchstone Archives: Not Harvard Bound

re: Terrence O. Moore, principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools in Fort Collins, Colorado, knows some young people who have some pretty good ideas about what's right and what's wrong with their world...

Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Knowing One's Place

re: Anthony Esolen notes (among other things) that "It seems that our entire educational system is designed to scorn the idea of the ordinary -- the idea that, in fact, we are all meant to occupy a modest place, in a family, a community, or a church, a place that is seldom of our own making. But what is wrong with the ordinary?"...

The Common Room: Knowing Your Place in a Fantastic and Wonderful World

re: celebrating ordinary people...

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bush criticises Spanish US anthem

re: a Spanish, activist remix of the US national anthem...

Joust The Facts: Gassy Emissions At The Times

re: trying to teach the New York Times about what President Bush actually proposed regarding reformulated gasoline and boutique fuels, not to mention economics...

Intent - Journal - where I'm from...

re: participating in a 'poem' meme, telling about where (and who) you come from...

The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo to Be Published by Bethany House in August

re: Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us by David Gibbs is due out in August...

f a i t h * i n * f i c t i o n

re: blog by a fiction acquisitions editor at a Christian publishing house...

New England Republican :"It ain't legal, and by God, it ain't right"

re: the movie Absence of Malice, the Wilfred Brimley character's takedown of the reporter played by Sally Fields, and today's media/CIA leaks...

hat tip: Betsy's Page

"We never say no."

re: Wesley J. Smith looks at the right-to-die movement, and its increasing promotion of suicide...

Danielle Bean: A Reader's Question

re: adjusting to motherhood...

Testosterhome: Monkeys At The Zoo

re: taking four boys on a trip to the zoo (and remembering when it was harder to take them anywhere)...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Georgia's abortion debate by Jeff Emanuel - Mar 3, 2006

re: college student/military veteran is a new columnist at Townhall.com...

Wesley J. Smith on Futile-Care Theory on National Review Online

re: when hospitals decide to stop care not because it isn't working, but because it is...

The Corner on National Review Online

re: energy consumer spending as a fraction of total personal consumption over time, etc....

The Corner on National Review Online

re: Roger Clegg on folks in Waco wanting to apologize (to people who have nothing in common with the victim except skin color) for a crime none of them committed (it happened in 1916, by the way)...

American Future: The Iranian Threat - First of a Series

re: asking if it's time to dust off the Carter Doctrine...

Elephants in Academia: Cynthia McKinney's Constitutional defense?

re: what that 'privileged from Arrest' section of the Constitution really says...

A Lady's Ruminations: The Government's To Blame!

re: the government and gas prices, including background from various talk show hosts and columnists...

CBC News: 'Presumed consent' option for organ donations sparks debate

re: from February, New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos drafted a bill introduced into the provincial legislature saying that hospitals should be able to harvest organs from a dying patient unless the patient had previously 'opted out' of organ donation...

Get Ready Now for Canada's National March for Life 2006 on Thursday May 11

re: info on upcoming rendezvous of pro-lifers. Those who can't attend are asked to make candle pledges, for candles to be lighted at the vigil marking the beginning of the march...

Reasoned Audacity: Legally Right, Morally Wrong -- One Year Later

re: encore post about Terri Schiavo, with links to (among other things) articles by Joe Ford, a disabled man studying at Harvard, and Joni Eareckson Tada...

Thomas Joscelyn

re: blog on terrorism, foreign policy, and matters involving the intelligence community...

Betsy's Page

re: politicians rushing to place blame in the wrong places for gas prices...

Betsy's Page

re: Congress and gas prices...

Betsy's Page

re: taxes on gasoline...

Politics Blog : A charge to keep

re: President Bush, his 2000 memoirs, and change versus chaos...

Bush orders suspension of gas rules

re: Washingon Times article on various moves at the federal level to address high gas prices, including the possibility of a 60-day federal gas tax holiday...

Union punishes law-abiding teachers

re: A British Columbia teacher's union is punishing teachers who refused to participate in an illegal strike...

thedesertsun.com | Text of Gerald Ford Statement on Defense Secretary Rumsfeld

re: President Ford sticks up for Rumsfeld, but also addresses the larger issue -- letting retired generals dictate policy or leadership would undermine the country's tradition of civilian control of the military...

Musings from a Catholic Bookstore

re: Colorado bookseller's blog...

Stop The ACLU : What's in the water at St. Luke's Hospital?

re: what appears to be a bent toward euthanasia at a Houston hospital...

Betsy's Page

re: Neil Cavuto's advice for Chuck Schumer regarding finger pointing and gas prices...

Messages From Mama: Thinking Lately

re: another mother of a "special" child wonders about how to deal with parents who are facing news of an 'abnormal' baby...

I have to say...: Friday things...

re: the book Knitting with Dog Hair, a link for fabric lovers, more...

OpinionJournal - Five Best

re: biographies of FDR...

The Dartmouth Review celebrates 25 years

re: The Dartmouth Review is having a 25th anniversary gala in NYC tonight, with Mark Steyn as keynote speaker and Father George Rutler as Master of Ceremonies. The gala also marks the publication of The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent : Twenty-Five Years of Being Threatened, Impugned, Vandalized, Sued, Suspended, and Bitten at the the Ivy League’s Most Controversial Conservative Newspaper, edited by James Panero and Stefan Beck, (ISI Books)...

OpinionJournal - Taste: Misplaced Sympathies

re: Kevin Shapiro, a researcher in neuroscience at Harvard, says Darwin isn't the enemy...

OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts

re: Tunku Varadarajan looks at the book Identity and Violence, and takes on the unreal world of its author, Amartya Sen (1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and currently professor at Harvard)...

OpinionJournal - Democracy by Decree

re: The U.S. Senate and House might actually try to put limits on "consent decrees"...

Raymond J. Keating -- The Abuse of Eminent Domain and the Ten Commandments

re: church leaders have a couple of big reasons to fight eminent domain abuse -- for one thing, churches are often the target, and, even more important, it's stealing.

"Virtually Brain Dead"

re: Daniel Eisenberg, M.D. looks at the case of Haleigh Poutre and at the moral and ethical state of society (aish.com, March 31, 2006)...

Expat Yank: Court certifies results...no, not in Florida

re: Italian election results, plus noting a 2002 assassination of a professor who promoted changes in labor policy there...

Expat Yank: What is needed is more inflexibility?

re: UK union leaders want Britain to make its employment laws more like those in France...

Always Chaos At Our House

re: a blog that is dedicated largely to raising awareness of life with Down Syndrome, with quite a few links to blogs written by families with first hand experience...

Instapundit.com - Free Speech update

re: Northern Kentucky University shows its vigilante professor the door...

hat tip: The Bernoulli Effect

The Bernoulli Effect: The Making Of A Marine Officer

re: a thumbs-up review of Nathaniel Flick's One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer...

The Book Den: Thoughts on "Pied Piper" -- A Guest Blog from Claire Hartford

re: a thumbs-up review for the 1942 book Pied Piper by Nevil Shute...

Bookworm Room : Maybe there is hope for traditional values

re: running into some clean-cut, well-mannered teen boys...

Book Moot: Titanic

re: books for children about the Titanic...

The Common Room: A Happy Heart Doeth Good Like Medicine

re: laughing at trouble and at yourself...

OpinionJournal - Taste: Fun for the Whole Family, Really

re: Daniel Akst has been watching classic movies with his sons...

OpinionJournal - Hot Topic: Fear of filing

re: a look at the misnamed "Alternate Minimum Tax", plus a proposal to scrap the regular U.S. code...

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Victor Keegan: Frustrated author? Publish yourself

re: Victor Keegan takes a go at publishing a small book through POD websites...

People of the Book : A Literary Revival?

re: Tim Drake looks at renewed interest in Catholic literature. Jim Manney highlights Debra Murphy, whose POD mystery is published through her own press (Idylls Press) and sold through Ingram...

Home-schoolers part of growing trend

re: Billings Gazette article on homeschoolers in Montana...

RadioLovers.com - Old Time Radio Shows

re: hundreds of vintage radio shows...

Bakercityherald.com: Juggling a 25-year tradition

re: juggling at an elementary school...

Bakercityherald.com: Record water content in Dooley Mountain snowpack

re: Northeastern Oregon's water situation looks pretty good for a change...

The Scotsman - Business - Fife firm at the heart of Vodafone's revolutionary phone vending plans

re: buying phones at vending machines...

The Scotsman - Business - Lights, camera, auction - it's a long story for the lords of the ring

re: Ring of Memories, John A Thomson, £12.95 including p&p, from Thomson Roddick, Coleridge House, Shaddongate, Carlisle, CA2 5TU -- a book on "the cattle fairs and livestock marts of Scotland and about some of the men who established them and the characters who frequented them"...

The Common Room: The Easier Things Get, The Harder We Work

re: sometimes labor-saving devices lead us to complicate our lives...

Inspirational Reading in Christian Thought and Philosophy

re: a website called The Murry Reading Room, with categories including Early Writings, Christian Classics, Biblical Studies, Current Issues, and Contemporary Library...

Malcolm Muggeridge's spiritual evolution

re: his long (and well-documented) struggle on the way to joining the Catholic Church...

Malcolm Muggeridge's Jesus

re: the e-text...

Wittingshire: Outrageous Claims

re: Malcolm Muggeridge, writing as an old man, on faith in Christ...

OpinionJournal - Wonder Land: The Pope's Easter

re: Daniel Henninger looks at Benedict XVI and his messages...

The American Thinker: The Hidden History of the Iraq War Critics

re: military historian John B. Dwyer provides some background to counter the current anti-Rumsfeld campaign...

United States Money: Paper Money (Business Reference Services, Library of Congress)

re: links to various websites that provide answers to frequently asked questions about U.S. money...

Ruthlace: April 15: Dear Uncle Sam

re: someone who used to work part time for the IRS remembers some of the "Dear Uncle Sam" letters that crossed her desk...

Ruthlace: Random Thoughts about Courtship in The Thirties

re: how she met her husband, and more...

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel seeking new members

re: the IRS is looking for citizens to help it find ways to improve customer service...

Betsy's Page: Myths about people in the military

re: myths about today's military, with a link to myths about those who fought in Vietnam...

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Sure Enough...

re: in which "the pro-life position" is stretched beyond reason and then called indefensible. (Sigh.)...

Considerettes: Self-government without self-control...

re: high-tech Jewish greenhouses in the Gaza strip were turned over to Palestinians, who proceeded to loot the greenhouses, and who now want help because they can't raise the bug-free produce the area was known for (because of the greenhouses)...

Promoting palliative care, Opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide - Care NOT Killing

re: UK alliance...

Power Line: "Climate of Fear"

re: more on bullying by the global warming industry, with excerpt from an article in the Wall Street Journal by Richard Lindzen of MIT...

A Circle of Quiet: Quotidian quote

re: a quote from Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" by Kathleen Norris...

Lost Budgie Blog: Toronto City TV Goes Pro-Life - Unintentionally

re: a pregnant television host gets a 3-D scan of her baby in the womb during her show, and is awed...

Jesuit Professor says "Primacy of Conscience" Misunderstood by Politicians

re: Father Joseph Koterski, a Jesuit professor of philosophy at New York’s Fordham University, explains the basics of moral law for the benefit of lawmakers who think they are above it...

Interfax News --Russian Orthodox Church Human Rights Initiative

re: Archpriest Chaplin says (amongst other things) "What we do not want to see in the future are attempts to affirm some radical-liberal view on human rights as the sole possible opinion which has no alternatives and cannot be disputed"...

Catholic Mom Community

re: website for Catholic Moms. In today's left sidebar are ads for books by members of the community, including My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom by Danielle Bean; Dawson's Gift by Andrea Bell; Northwoods Forest Mystery by Karin Ficke Cook; and Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You Are A Bad Parent! by Lisa Barker...

Intent - Journal - boys and work

re: boys need space to play, but more importantly, they need room to work...

Intent - Journal - vermeer

re: Sparrow's favorite artist, and a link to something called Essential Vermeer...

The American Enterprise: Charity Begins at Home: Immigrants, Jobs, and Effective Compassion

re: Joseph Knippenberg looks at the faith-based Georgia Justice Project, and suggests we could use more projects like it...

Back to the Maoist Future

re: Peter Brooks, writing in the Weekly Standard, says that China is rapidly expanding its influence in Africa...

The Anchoress : Have the Irish lost their moxie?

re: a tribute to Irish wakes...

REAL Women's Voices

re: The Susan B. Anthony List and other pro-life groups are sponsoring a Washington D.C. Lobbying Day, Wednesday, April 26, 2006...

DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues Uncle Sam - April 11, 2006

re: agent who idiotically had a loaded Glock .40 at a weapons demonstration for a youth group, and accidentally shot himself in the foot during the presentation, is suing because a video of the incident has found its way onto television and the Internet...

OpinionJournal - Featured Article: Health Care for Everyone?

re: Mitt Romney explains Massachusetts' plan for health insurance (and promises to take corrective action against the Democrat's fee proposal)...

A Constrained Vision: Gladwell on sports and education

re: the key to success is to not make excuses...

USATODAY.com - For once, blame the student

re: the lack of work ethic -- and the willingness to blame anything but themselves -- found in so many of today's American students...

gladwell.com

re: a blog by the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking...

Telegraph | Opinion | There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

re: Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University in Queensland, provides some context for looking at climate change...

hat tip: Rush Limbaugh

Catholic Church joins founding of 34-faith movement - Catholic Online

re: Christian Churches Together in the USA, said to be the broadest ecumenical movement in U.S. history, was officially founded at a March 28-31 gathering near Atlanta...

On spring break, not taking it Easy

re: Christina Bellantoni, writing for the Washington Times, reports on college students who are spending spring break helping with clean-up in New Orleans...

Wittenberg Gate: Immigrant Exploitation

re: Dory takes a look at a seldom-mentioned downside of illegal immigration...

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred: Imperialism? Colonialism? Oh, Really? SC&A's Politically Incorrect Look At Reality

re: a look at Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, plus other theories SC&A thinks are both PC and incorrect...

hat tip: Happy Catholic

OpinionJournal - Taste: How to Own a Poem

re: David Lehman advocates memorizing and reciting poems, and also notes the Poetry Out Loud program being launched by the National Endowment for the Arts (on the model of spelling bees)...

A Constrained Vision: Pencil it in

re: pencil sales in Britain have skyrocketed -- because of Sudoku puzzles...

Here in the Bonny Glen: Favorite Fictional Families

re: a list of favorite fictional families at the Wiley household, with an invitation to offer suggestions for additions...

New blog: Real Learning

re: another new homeschooling blog, this one hosted by the author of Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home...

Commentary: French 'Security' and Economic Reality

re: the youth taking to the streets in France, and the ignorance involved...

OpinionJournal - Featured Article: Swing Justice

re: the liberal media sets its sights on Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy...

Happy Catholic: Eaking-Spay Ussian-Ray

re: Yankee ingenuity...

AMERICAN FUTURE - 'Visiting Permanently' and Other Things I Don't Understand

re: Dr. Demarche looks at immigration policy and proposed immigration policy...

OpinionJournal - The Anti-Kelo

re: Steven Greenhut reports on the economic redevelopment strategy of Anaheim, California...

Exultate Justi: Enough Already!

re: tired of being barraged by drug ads...

Mommy Life: Kids, Culture, and Self-Control

re: teaching kids how they are expected to behave...

Joust The Facts: Look Before You Leap

re: Jill Carroll, and the hasty comments made before she got to safety...

open book: The Cost of Choice

re: a book of essays on the harmful effects of abortion on women...

Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online

re: a blog focusing on higher ed...

Reconciable Differences (NRO): More Swings at Eminent Domain

re: updates (2/28/2006) on Village of North Hills versus Deepdale Golf Club...

John J. Miller on My Senator and Me on National Review Online

re: "Ted Kennedy's awful children's book" narrated by his dog Splash...

Betsy's Page: Who hates the other more -- conservatives or liberals?

re: a recent Dennis Prager column, and a recommendation for the Thomas Sowell book The Vision of the Anointed...

Betsy's Page

re: the role of religion in American politics, with focus on Kevin Phillips and Hugh Hewitt's new books...

OpinionJournal - Taste

re: Brendan Miniter says it's time George Mason University got a little respect...

OpinionJournal - Five Best

re: top books on the turning points in modern medicine, selected by Sherwin Nuland of the Yale University School of Medicine, and author of "How We Die" (Knopf, 1994; winner of the National Book Award) and of "Maimonides" (Schocken, 2005)...

joethorn.net: The Ninth

re: What does it mean to “bear false witness” against our neighbor?...

hat tip: Best of the GodBlogs

New Church Yearbook Reveals Trends in American Denominations | Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News

re: 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches: Postmodern Christianity: Emergent Church and Blogs, edited by Eileen W. Lindner...

Methodists Address Church Property Issues | Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News

re: "The United Methodist Church is reviewing and reconsidering its property clause in light of rising legal challenges from dissenting congregations"...

British Science Prof. Wins $1.4 Million Religion Prize | Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News

re: The 2006 Templeton Prize goes to John D. Barrow, British scientist and writer...

Bioethics Senior Scholar on Stem Cell Research, Cloning | Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News

re: "...[T]he senior scholar of The Center for Bioethics Human Dignity and the Director of the Bioethics Program at Trinity International University, Dr. John Kilner, spoke with The Christian Post on Mar. 28 about the ethical concerns of stem cell research and the role that the Church and Christians should have in the controversy....

I'm In It For The Long Haul

re: another homeschooling blog, with recipes, homeschool tips, more...

Wittingshire: Book Review: Here, Eyeball This!

re: book review of the novel Here, Eyeball This! by David Heddle...

Methodists, Mascots,and Morality -- What's Going On Here?

re: the Methodists have moved their 2012 General Conference from Richmond, Virginia, because church leaders object to the name of a minor league baseball team from there (I couldn't make this stuff up...)...

For God, For Country and For Yale: National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day!

re: Students with Yale's CLAY (Choose Life at Yale) will be wearing pro-life shirts at this year's Spring Fling...

SFO Mom: I needed to see this today

re: the book Mother's Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul by Holly Pierlot...