Mrs. Happy Housewife - Peter Pan Book Sequel

re: there is an authorized sequel, now available...

Nobel Wish-List

re: William Kristol thinks Donald Westlake should get the Nobel Prize for literature...

The Constitution, Writ or Wrong

re: "The habeas corpus debate illustrates a dangerous trend in legal ignorance..."...

hat tip: Bookworm

Considerettes - Affecting the Culture

re: "What would your church do to make an impact on our culture, if it had $100,000 at its disposal? One Baptist church decided to make a movie; a high-quality movie [Facing the Giants] with a good message that is competing favorably against Hollywood’s offerings..."...

The View into the Womb is "Extraordinarily Dangerous?"

re: a doctor in the UK frets that the public might look at pictures of a baby in the womb and think it's human at 12 weeks...

Victory for marriage in California - Alliance Defense Fund - Defending Our First Liberty

re: "A ruling today by the California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court’s 2005 decision that would have redefined marriage to include same-sex couples..."...

Television Reality - Prison Fellowship

re: John Fischer was minding his own business in a coffee bistro, when folks with a 'reality show' swung in for some filming...

BrothersJudd Blog: INCREASINGLY DUBAIOUS:

re: more on Airbus and its latest troubles...

Study: Switzerland Tops in Preventing Bribery | Business | Deutsche Welle | 04.10.2006

re: corruption watchdog agency study on how well different exporting countries do on preventing firms from bribing...

German Government Urged to Intervene in Airbus Crisis | Business | Deutsche Welle | 04.10.2006

re: "...News that Airbus is facing an uncertain future due to the delayed roll-out of the A380 super jumbo jet by at least a year, and the proposed shifting of operations from Hamburg to cheaper sites in Russia, India and China, has angered politicians and industry officials in Germany..."...

Control Room and Driver to Blame for Transrapid Train Crash | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 04.10.2006

re: initial investigation on the Sept. 22 crash that killed 23 people finds human error on the part of the driver (who died in the crash) and two control room operators (both of whom are still reported to be in a state of shock) for letting the train start down a test track that still had a 60-ton maintenance vehicle on it...

That Was Then . . . This is Now? A Nazi Nightmare

re: doctors killing people with handicaps or other problems...

Heresy in the Church of High Art

re: another writer pointing out the ugliness and worldview of 'high art'...

The Common Room: Books read in September.

re: includes some books I hadn't heard of that sound interesting, like Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains...

Betsy's Page: The new Medicare plan

re: grudging praise for how the new Medicare prescription drug benefit program is doing so far...

Betsy's Page: More attacks on freedom of speech

re: 'campaign finance reforms' being used to punish plain old talk...

A Little Social Experiment by Theodore Dalrymple

re: On a London street, the difference between private property and "social" (i.e. public) housing shows up in the gardens. "What is clear from the distribution of litter in the street is that it is the private that is social, and the “social” that is not so much private as solipsistic, egotistical—and antisocial."...

Danielle Bean: Your Turn: Clutter Control

re: more advice to get rid of clutter (it's only stuff)...

Patrick Lee on NRO Books

re: Patrick Lee and Robert P. George counter charges made against them and others in the book Challenging Nature, by Lee Silver. Includes technical info on embryonic stem cells, embryos, etc., ...

Books and Culture's Book of the Week: A Canonization of Subjectivity - Books & Culture

re: Mark Gauvreau Judge reviews Andrew Sullivan's new book, The Conservative Soul, and finds it full of misrepresentations ("Sullivan quotes George Weigel and Richard John Neuhaus out of context, but his real botching is with Pope Benedict"..."He touts his Catholicism... but can't be bothered to tackle John Paul II's Theology of the Body"), plus much nonsense in general. He suggests "A Canonization of Subjectivity" might have been a good title...

CatholicMom.com Interview with Tarek Saab, Lionheart Apparel

re: promoting masculine Christians, in a variety of ways...

Bruggie Tales

re: an Australian homeschooling family's blog...

TheDenverChannel.com - Irresistible Headlines - Toddler's Survival Alone In Woods Called Miracle

re: "ALVARADO, Texas -- For three days, 2½-year-old Kevin Brown's chubby bare feet took him through acres of rugged pastures of grass taller than his head and around ponds where bobcats and coyotes roam..."...

The Common Room : Children and Shakespeare

re: taking children to see Shakespeare (and a three-year-old's triumph)...

The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Saying goodbye to your grandfather's Arab world

re: a different, and more upbeat, look at changing views in the Middle East, especially among the rising generation, from an English-language paper based there...

hat tip: Real Clear Politics

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Dark View of Islam and the American Street

re: Thomas Lifson, with a theater-based illustration of the global fight...

RealClearPolitics - Articles - What We Are Up Against

re: Ed Koch on Islamists, and Chavez, and the UN, and more...

VDH's Private Papers::Islamic Fascism 101

re: Victor Davis Hanson on why there should be no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism”...

FIRST THINGS: On the Square

re: Richard John Neuhaus corrects an article's claim of what he said about radical Muslims, and goes on to discuss the jihadists and the threat they pose. References Mary Habeck’s Knowing the Enemy (Yale) and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower (Knopf)....

FIRST THINGS: On the Square

re: Ryan T. Anderson writes on embryonic stem cell research, and gives us The Parable of the Good Soccer Mom to illustrate a few points...

Karen Edmisten: The abortion milieu

re: those who are pro-choice because they can't face the idea they or a friend or family member is capable of killing, therefore it wasn't killing...

Stones Cry Out: A Story of Forgiveness from Africa

re: healing in the aftermath of war and slavery...

Stones Cry Out: Sanitizing the Veggies

re: Veggie Tales on television isn't going to be the same product as on the videos...

Stones Cry Out: The Calm Before the (Next) Storm

re: UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are only allowed to do what they are asked to do by the Lebanese Army, which apparently isn't authorizing them to do much (if anything)...

TheDenverChannel.com - News - Community Says Goodbye To Emily Keyes

re: update on Bailey, Colorado...

Bakercityherald.com: The mountains get him first, but hunter finally gets his goat

re: Jayson Jacoby recounts the saga of Gary Martin's goat hunt - an ordeal that included collapsing from altitude sickness up in the Elkhorns and his truck breaking down in John Day, and other problems...

Heather Mac Donald’s Conservative Crack-Up by Joseph M. Knippenberg

re: from August 2006, a skeptic tries to appeal for a big tent in conservatism, but does so without seeming to understand the religious people she wants to sit next to, or natural law, or ...

Betsy's Page: Charter schools are part of the American tradition

re: Betsy pulls excerpts from "How Much is Tuition?": Charter Schools Defined by Terrence Moore (Ashbrook Center editorial, September 2006)...

Global South Anglican

re: "This website is both a news site and a theological forum for issues of concern to Global South Provinces. Apart from official releases, the views of contributors here do not necessary represent that of the GSA Steering Committee..."...

Archbishop John Chew: Some Points of Clarification on the Kigali Meeting and Communique

re: "Clarifications from the Hon. Secretary of the Global South in light of the Sept. 24 Statement by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane (Cape Town) regarding the Kigali Communique..."...

AAC Commends Bold Kigali Communiqué Issued by Global South Primates

re: "Global South Primates pledged bold intervention to address the crisis within the Anglican Communion at their meeting Sept. 19-22, 2006 in Kigali, Rwanda..."...

La Shawn Barber’s Corner » Black Homeschooling on the Rise

re: it's not a matter of 'the rich' but of intact families (and there's a difference between married people with children and unmarried people with children)...

OpinionJournal - Outside the Box: What Do You Know?

re: Pete du Pont looks at a recent survey, which finds college students sadly uneducated in American history and constitutional understanding...

TheDenverChannel.com - News - Plane Carrying 140 People Missing After Collision

re: airliner disappeared over Amazon jungle, after colliding with an executive jet (which landed safely). The airliner took off from Manaus, a jungle city about 1,800 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro....

Jonah Goldberg on Iraq on National Review Online

re: if it weren't for Iraq, terrorists would find another excuse of the day. "...If you live your life calculating that it’s a mistake to do anything that might prompt murderers and savages to act like murderers and savages, you’ve basically decided to live under their thumb and surrender your civilization in the process..."...

TheDenverChannel.com - News - School Gunman Leaves Rambling Suicide Note

re: updates on the Bailey school hostage investigation (various links)...

Mexican drug gangs take root in S. Oregon

re: organized crime increasing in Oregon, much of it with foreign ties...

Danielle Bean: Humiliation: Now Available in a Convenient 6-Pack

re: on being carded when you're obviously over 21 (and the clerk blowing a chance to be charming)...

Here in the Bonny Glen: Unearthed: The Notebooks

re: Melissa was at the hospital with her cancer-stricken daughter, when the book deal came through...

Brandywine Books: German Opera Cancelled Due to Outrage Forecast

re: Phil Wade has a different take on the cancellation of a German opera because of fears it might offend Muslims...

The Anchoress » Our instincts serve us well…

re: on the benefits of only having one television in the house, and not watching it very much. Also, "...In our house supper was (and remains) the one time of the day when brakes were applied to everyone’s own busy concerns, and we checked in with each other..."...

FIRST THINGS: On the Square

re: Jordan Hylden reports on various bits of good news for Anglican conservatives...

FIRST THINGS: On the Square

re: Robert T. Miller patiently explains the Catholic moral doctrine on abortion, as well as "a confusion regarding two different kinds of moral norms recognized in Catholic moral theology"...

Writing and Living: You Don't Know the Half of It

re: nice story about a bad day...

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Clinton gives glimpse of the future

re: 'analysis' of Tony Blair's possible future, but with the focus on Bill Clinton (what's that saying about the Clintons being able to suck all the air out of a room?)...

ESPN.com - GOLF - Rosaforte: Nelson was more than a good golfer

re: a nice tribute to Byron Nelson from Tim Rosaforte of GolfDigest.com...

Mozart sacrificed to Muslims | The World | The Australian

re: "...For fear of Muslim anger, the bosses of the world-renowned Deutsche Oper in Berlin have cancelled performances of Mozart's Idomeneo..."...

TheDenverChannel.com - Entertainment - Mama Lisa? Mona Lisa May Have Been Pregnant

re: researchers have been doing detailed scans of the painting, and, among other things,

"Thanks to laser scanning, we were able to uncover the very fine gauze veil Mona Lisa was wearing on her dress. This was something typical for either soon-to-be or new mothers at the time," Michel Menu, research director of the French Museums' Center for Research and Restoration, said Wednesday on LCI television....

TheDenverChannel.com - News - Thousands Pay Tribute Slain Officer

re: Mike Thomas, apparently killed at random, will be missed...

OpinionJournal - Federation: Regime Change

re: a stinging, disapproving review of Bruce Ackerman's book The Failure of the Founding Fathers, plus a discussion of why the Electoral College has merit...

Dallas Morning News | Golf legend Nelson dies

re: Byron Nelson has died at age 94...

hat tip: Brothers Judd

RealClearPolitics - Articles - What Did the NIE Really Say?

re: some points to consider about the partisan leak and the New York Time's handling of it...

In From the Cold: When an Expert's Not an Expert

re: Dr. William Gray is the go-to guy on hurricane season prediction, but his views on global warming are shunned by the media...

The Pioneer > The Pope is not alone

re: the Pope's recent observations about Muslims and violence are similar to what Mahatma Gandhi said in 1926, and what other religious leaders of today are saying...

hat tip: The Alliance Alert (September 26, 2006)

Soccer Dad: Blogging notes

re: links, and a discussion on 'what sort of blogger are you?'...

The Idaho Statesman - Harris Ranch resident wins fight over political signs

re: fighting for the right to have a political sign in your own front yard...

Bakercityherald.com: Unlearn what you think you know about the Plains Indians

re: "Michael Bad Hand Terry wants people to unlearn much of what they know about American Plains Indians..."...

Cafe Hayek: Bastiat vs. Krugman

re: what reformers do when they begin to destroy the individual...

Corpus Christi, TX - KRISTV.COM - U.S. happily untouched by hurricanes so far, but season not over

re: surprisingly mild hurricane season so far is from a combination of several factors, including a shift eastward of the "Bermuda High" that's steering hurricanes away from American shores, El Nino winds that tear storms apart, and cooler ocean temps...

OpinionJournal - The Chosen People on the Sceptered Isle

re: Naomi Schaeffer Riley writes about the history of Jews in England, the 350th anniversary of the resettlement of Jews in England, and converses with John Gross, a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of the memoir Double Thread (2002)...

Radical conversion

re: the Orange County Register is running a three-part feature on a family that has gone in three generations from a Jewish man known for his humanitarianism to a grandson aligned with al-Qaida...

hat tip: Cheat-Seeking Missiles (content warning: website not always family-friendly)

Thousands attend 'Wear Red Friday' rally on Parliament Hill

re: rally to show support for Canadian troops...

Power Line: Another Reason to Vote in November

re: another federal judge sworn in...

How Joseph Ratzinger sees Islam

re: "Pope Benedict's record shows that he wants dialogue with the Islamic world - not about theology but about basic human values and freedoms..."... (Via Robert.)

Expat Yank: Compared to what it was before

re: comparing Iraq today to Europe following WWII or the security situation in South Africa, which has had longer to establish democracy...

Captain's Quarters: Edsall's Retirement

re: "Hugh Hewitt has a fascinating interview posted with Thomas Edsall, who recently retired from the Washington Post and most recently held the position of senior political writer. Edsall has a new book in the stores, Building Red America, as well as new gigs at the Columbia School of Journalism and the center-left The New Republic. Edsall discusses politics and the media in a surprisingly forthright way, at one point asserting that Hugh underestimates the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in newsroom across America..."...

Captain's Quarters: Let's Give It A Rest

re: another call to put the pre-9/11 past behind us, and let it slip into history while we concentrate on what we do from here...

One Hand Clapping » Linkagery

re: various links, many with Iraq or Afghan connections...

OpinionJournal - Wonder Land: Can We Talk?

re: "Who says the world lacks leaders? After again expressing his "respect" for Islam, Pope Benedict XVI at his weekly Vatican audience two days ago moved one of his knights forward on the global chessboard of Islamic politics..."...

Exultate Justi: Of short-term memories, and shorter attention spans

re: another 9/11 anniversary post worth archiving...

Joust The Facts: Eligible Receivers

re: another 'I just want to be treated like an illegal alien' post...

Expat Yank: The UN and a film will do it?

re: today is supposedly "Peace Day"...

Jen Robinson's Book Page: Literacy Day: September 18th

re: includes, among other things, the news that "...Central Florida's One Book One Community literacy campaign has selected the book Mr. Popper's Penguins for the 2007 community reading program..."...

How to treat our current crop of enemies « Bookworm Room

re: why the Gandhi mode of non-violent resistance only works if you're up against something like the England of Gandhi's day...

Plighting Their Troth—or Whatever - Prison Fellowship

re: modern secular weddings that are "style over substance." Includes references to the books To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan (Little, Brown, and Company, 2006), and Marriage Savers (Word Publishing, 1995) by Michael McManus...

Amtrak - Hot Deals

re: weekly deals, online booking only; plus advertised specials (for instance, kids ride free on the Auto Train, deal expires Sept. 30; or, travel in groups of three to six and get discounts in the Northeast if purchased by Dec. 11)...

ENEMIES - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

re: excerpts from the book "Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets -- And How We Let It Happen" (Crown Forum), by Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times...

A Constrained Vision: Stupid application questions redux

re: Katie provides a good comeback to her university's repeated request for her ethnic origin...

BrothersJudd Blog: NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S PEACEKEEPERS

re: Canadian forces take on, take out, Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Big time....

Joee Blogs - a Catholic Londoner

re: medical student blog, with pictures of recent Muslim demonstrations outside Westminster Cathedral...

hat tip: Expat Yank

The Editors on Federal Election Integrity Act on National Review Online

re: "The next time you buy something at the mall with your credit card, you may well have to show a photo ID first. So why not when you vote? This is the question the House will take up today when it considers HR 4844, the Federal Election Integrity Act. It would introduce two modest and commonsensical regulations. First, that a person provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. Second, that a person show some form of photo identification at the ballot box..."...

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Nippin’ Away at Abortion

re: the risque show Nip/Tuck had a character refuse to abort a disabled baby in the season premiere...

Nightly Business Report . THE GREEN OPTION | PBS

re: three-part series on ethanol's potential, pros, cons. Has links to transcripts and videos, plus several external sites...

Phi Beta Cons: Let's Try It Again

re: Mark Bauerlein notes that Princeton is expanding its black studies program bigtime. And calls this addressing the most profound challenge facing America...

ABC News: First Female Space Tourist Arrives at Space Station

re: Anousheh Ansari spent $20 million for her dream trip into space, and seems to be enjoying it...

Cafe Hayek: Frugal Google

re: the founders of Google are setting up a for-profit philanthropy...

Cafe Hayek: Costly Regulation: The Case of Gasoline

re: a scholarly paper looking at gasoline markets in the United States...

Brandywine Books: Garrison Keillor to Open Bookstore in St. Paul

re: the humorist plans to open a bookstore Nov. 1. (Comments so far worth a giggle.)...

Archbishop Yong Ping Chung of South East Asia Visits Canada

re: Orthodox Anglicans working together...

Diocese of Quincy Special Synod Approves Alternative Primatial Oversight Request

re: another diocese unwilling to accept the current Episcopalian leadership...