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May 2010

May 26, 2010
Michael Gerson offers a memorable quotation: After the British army conquered the Sindh region of...
May 26, 2010
The actual subject of Michael Gerson's column, quoted above, is the vogue in a number...
May 26, 2010
OK, maybe China won't bury us economically after all: Quick: Think of a Chinese brand...
May 25, 2010
Sunday was Pentecost, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit 50 days after Easter and...
May 25, 2010
The Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod is doing good work in Haiti that is attracting attention.  This...
May 25, 2010
The Korean War of the 1950s has never officially ended.  Now South Korea, after decades...
May 24, 2010
SPOILER ALERT! So Lost ends with the sacrifice of someone with bloody hands and feet...
May 24, 2010
Richard Cohen says that America just doesn't have much effect on world events anymore.  He...
May 24, 2010
In a high culture that no longer believes in beauty or meaning, art becomes reduced...
May 21, 2010
That's what's happening in France, where "95% of couples taking up the pacte civil de...
May 21, 2010
Steve Jobs, the mind behind Apple computing, is making a stand against pornography, even though...
May 21, 2010
The notable scholar and Catholic commentator Anthony Esolen--whom I have had the privilege of hanging...
May 21, 2010
China is thinking way beyond making money by trade and overseas investment.  James McGregor tells...
May 20, 2010
Usually, my "American Idol" favorites never make it all that far.  This year, though, the...
May 20, 2010
The document dump required for nominees to the Supreme Court includes Elena Kagan's Master's Thesis,...
May 20, 2010
Why is this wrong? As far as God is concerned, someone is unemployed if the...
May 20, 2010
An exceedingly odd tidbit from The Washington Post's political columnist Perry Bacon: Democrats should not...
May 19, 2010
Talk about "what's in a name," as in the post below.  Consider naming your boy...
May 19, 2010
Many of you have followed, with me, the labyrinthine ways of "Lost."  Now, the television...
May 19, 2010
Is it any wonder that Christians are losing their credibility? Indiana congressman Mark Souder's resignation,...
May 19, 2010
You have probably heard by now of the latest survey of baby names, finding that...
May 18, 2010
I hadn't realized that science, despite all of the claims that it has all the...
May 18, 2010
Thirty people died in the Cumberland River flood that inundated Nashville and other places in...
May 18, 2010
A sobering piece by Mark Steyn: What with the Fort Hood mass murderer, the Christmas...
May 17, 2010
We've been discussing the Christological dimensions of the Ascension, including the Lutheran view that not...
May 17, 2010
Deborah Markus gives 25 comebacks to people who question the decision to homeschool.  Here is...
May 17, 2010
Republicans are reportedly working on  some  innovative but controversial ideas.  Here are three examples: The...
May 14, 2010
That was yesterday.  Sorry I missed it.  Ascension Day marks an important event, but it...
May 14, 2010
So what is orthodox about this teaching from an Orthodox patriarch? Church debate in Russia...
May 14, 2010
Have you seen the ads in which General Motors says that they paid back the...
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