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      Posted from Alexandria, Virginia    

    An interesting and thought-provoking perspective:     I don't agree, by the...

      Posted from Alexandria, Virginia (not Alexandria, Egypt)    

    It's a bitterly cold night in the Washington DC area.  But we enjoyed...

    This is quite interesting, but it also strikes me (given the paucity of...

    Here's the background on an excellent and growing series of podcasts involving faithful...

    The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column has appeared, and, as...

    Oy veh!   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443008/university-holiday-party-not-inclusive-fiscal-year-texas-professor-guidelines?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Trending%20Email%20Reoccurring-%20Monday%20to%20Thursday%202016-12-14&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives   In some respects, there are few stupider places...

    The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.  (Charles...

      I'm proud of Governor Romney for doing the right thing, and...

    Donald Trump is number two.   Guess who's number one?   :overall  ...

    Despite having been recently forbidden by one of my readers ever to post...

    If anybody has an update on this matter -- factual, please, not an...

    We at the Interpreter Foundation don't want you to run out of things...

    Samuel Tadros provides a very helpful historical overview and an analysis of the...

    There's been a recent flurry of excitement among certain critics of Joseph Smith...

    "Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns...

    Although one hubristic reader directed me this morning to post no more political comments...

    An entertaining and provocative 17.5 minutes:     It's pretty painfully obvious...

    The 2016 United States tax year is coming to a close, and many...

    You might find this retrospective interesting.  There'll be stories that you had forgotten,...

    Most of you have probably already heard about this -- I'm a bit...

    Someone called my attention to this article, on what seems to be an...

    "'Almost everything is already discovered', a young Max Planck was told in 1874....

    By Saturday Night Live:   http://www.ldsliving.com/SNL-Hilariously-Shows-What-Trump-Romney-s-Meetings-Must-Have-Looked-Like/s/83984?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email    

    http://www.ldsliving.com/Mitt-Romney-Posts-about-Ordaining-His-Grandson-to-Priesthood-Sparks-Unique-Missionary-Opportunity/s/83971?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   Many anti-Mormons and apostates and alienated members use social media to...

    A story from about a year ago.  In Israel (as elsewhere), many archaeological...

    So much for the mystique of CSI:     I remember, years...

    From time to time, I read mocking comments about the "Early Modern English"...

    “The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and...