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...