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Here is an interesting posting on Amy Welborn’s weblog. She is a Catholic author and speaker whose webjournal has a big following. This has to do with the ongoing debate at Notre Dame (and at most other Catholic Universities) over their "Catholic Identity" and academic freedom. I believe the most recent ruckus had to do…

the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and Washington Post all had articles today on the IRS study about the amount of income they estimate they under-collect. Here’s the WaPo article  IRS Was Underpaid $345 Billion in ’01 If they could only catch up with those self-employed people…

Here is a follow-up article to the reports I posted a few days ago about the large study indicating no relationship between a fat free diet and lower cancer and heart disease. Note that the article is in the NY Times, so will only be available online for free until Feb. 21st. Maybe You’re Not…

[Note – since I posted this earlier today, the entire article is now available for free here:] AOL Money & Finance: WSJ – – One Tough Day for Two-Timers The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article in their Friday Relationships section entitled "One Tough Day for Two Timers". It seems private detective agencies are…

The oldest ancestor yet to Tyrannosaurus Rex has been found. Here’s the article in the Washington Post. Scientists Find Oldest Ancestor Of T. Rex

Now that Groundhog Day is behind us, (result – more winter ahead), here are some more dates. In case you’ve forgotten – February 14th is Valentine’s Day. February 10th is "St. Paul’s Shipwreck Day". Celebrated only in Malta. Did you know that February 16th is Do a Grouch a Favor Day? I didn’t either, but…

I started this journal on September 8th. It was begun on another journaling service and we moved to here within a couple of weeks. Coincidentally, this morning the 5000th visit came to the log. The numbers have risen from month to month and It’s now averaging 60-70 visits a day. I’ve done 165 postings and…

It turns out that Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, who I knew pretty well (See my previous posting Tom Faranda’s Folly: I played rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald )had additional allegations of lies by Libby. See this article – More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed in the Washington Post. However, here…

For the first time since 2002 I actually watched the President’s SOTU speech. I thought it was excellent. But then, I believe in the Wilsonian principles his foreign policy is based on. And I liked the broad strokes of his domestic policy plans. I watched it on NBC and they (Williams and Russert) declared all…

I know not everyone visiting this journal will care about the attached excerpt but I found it fascinating, maybe because it reinforced my own thinking! About a year ago I started receiving an unsolicited eletter from an investment manager, John Mauldin. I’d never heard of him, and usually when I get unsolicited stuff from investment…