Today as most of us enjoy the day off I urge you to take a moment to recall the meaning of this day. We have all enjoyed the benefit of the actions of those fallen soldiers we honor. It is in thanks for those actions that we should pause, remember, and offer up a prayer [...]
Dammit. BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but is readying yet another approach after repeated failures to stop the crude that’s fouling marshland and beaches. BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the “top kill” [...]
Depends on who you’re offending, I guess.
Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. A Blessed and Happy Easter to you all!
At Easter and Christmas, you can count on seeing a rise in stories in both print and video purporting to give “the real story” on Jesus and the Catholic Church. This year’s no different with a large portion of the news attention being given to a priest sex-abuse case from several years ago and allegations [...]
Like many Americans with family lineages containing many generations of Americans, I am a good, old-fashioned American mutt. I have confirmed ancestry from England, Scotland, Poland, Germany, France and – of particular note today – Ireland. And while I’ll certainly partake of our secular traditions of this day by quaffing a brew or two and [...]
Thanks to my brother-in-law, Ed, for bringing this to my attention.
Very intriguing: Days before Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what they said were the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus — a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there [...]
Doing what I do for a living, I know full well the impact of large numbers of people passing chain letters back and forth. The impact is not good to the Internet, the resources we’re trying to access, and for our general productivity. That’s why I generally do not forward chain letters regardless of their [...]
Via a tweet from Ed Morrissey I just read a fascinating post over at The Anchoress: I get an email from my Li’l Bro Thom (who likes show tunes, a lot, and is often peppering his emails with Broadway lyrices) “Could be, who knows? There’s something due any day, I will know, right away…soon as [...]
