Today is Brigid’s birthday. She loves the fact that she was born on the same day as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. AND, that Tim’s birthday falls three days earlier – on the Feast of St. Juan Diego. For non-aficionados of Catholic feasts, Juan Diego was the Mexican peasant who Mary appeared to … Read more
A short op ed from the Wall Street Journal December 11th. OpinionJournal – Featured Article Here’s the title and first paragraph: None Dare Call it Conspiracy We’ve been hearing variations on "BUSH LIED!!!!" for at least 60 years. BY MORTON KELLER Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST Variations of "Bush lied" have been part … Read more
My younger son Tim had his birthday today. He actually started celebrating last evening when my mother was up. That’s when I took the picture below. Now Tim is a real boy’s boy. Which is to say: very athletic, quite funny, sassy to the point of being fresh, and a bit of an underachiever at … Read more
I finished Barbara Tuchman’s book on the American Revolution, The First Salute, a couple of days ago. It’s not up there with her very best books (The Guns of August, A Distant Mirror), but I really enjoyed it. The title refers to the “first salute” that the new American flag received. It was given to … Read more
Here’s a scary article. I mean if you can’t can’t trust the internet… !?!? Wikipedia is "the biggest encyclopedia in the history of the world" Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar – New York Times I have actually used Wikipedia, and found it to be pretty decent. And it’s obviously begin used by … Read more
Henninger’s column, in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “What, Me Worry?” on why the administration has offered feeble defense for their Iraq policy, while getting clobbered by the Dems opposition.OpinionJournal – Wonder Land As a bonus, here’s Sen. Lieberman’s op ed in the WSJ a couple of days ago on Iraq. OpinionJournal – Featured Article
From the Washington Post, after the 1,000 execution in the U.S. since death penalty was reinstated in 1976, an article on the declining support for execution (good!). More in U.S. Expressing Doubts About Death Penalty And here’s another column with another twist on killing, off NRO. A jarring comparison.National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
A pretty good editorial in the Washington Post yesterday – Let the Debate Begin — Again
The Republican Party in NY State sold out on their principles years ago. And when you have no principles, here’s what happens.G.O.P. Dispute Over Pirro’s Bid Grows Fiercer – New York Times
I put aside Barbara Tuchman’s “The First Salute” which I have been enjoying, since I didn’t feel like schlepping in a heavy hard cover book for the weekend. Instead I did another re-read. This time, John Paul II’s great encyclical “On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum”. Rerum Novarum was the encyclical letter written in … Read more