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So it's been a nice Easter Sunday, actually.  I went to Easter Vigil last night,...

First, my memories. For what it's worth, I was at Notre Dame in Paris three...

Admittedly, we're not at the "put mom in a home" stage.  But we are getting...

What is CFM? CFM stands for Christian Family Movement, though it's specifically a Catholic group. ...

Did Arthur Brooks plan for his book Love Your Enemies to be released a few...

So here's the latest in the "Jane the Actuary has aging parents" saga:  wheelchairgate. Dad,...

You know, I go back and forth on whether I write about my parents and...

So, apropos of nothing, let's think about anti-vaxxers for a bit, shall we? It seems...

In the news today at the Chicago Tribune (and pretty much everywhere else):  "Mayor Emanuel...

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to the church door...

Yes, I get that it's just a parable, but some years, when the Prodigal Son...

So I wrote the other day about a book called Alienated America, the primary thesis...

Remember when, back after the Charlie Hebdo attack, everyone changed their profile pictures and said,...

So I just finished Tim Carney's Alienated America, and have a few rambly thoughts. To...

On The Federalist: "Illinois Considers Another Terrifying Law Allowing Infanticide" -- look, I don't write...

Chicago had a mayoral election last night. It was a very strange election (yes, 14...

Or, "how I spent my weekend." For eight years, I have, for one weekend a...

Are you following the mayoral election in Chicago?  It's a crazy scenario, with 14 candidates,...

What, you ask, is the "third sex" or "third gender"? It depends. In Oregon, it's...

Hey, readers! I just linked to my most recently published Federalist article, and have also,...

In 1982, a child was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with a condition called a tracheoesophageal...

Let me start with a story or two about World War II. One visit home,...

Yes, I know, the Ben Shapiro meme is "facts don't care about your feelings."  But...

This post has been updated since its original publication to reflect analysis of the Pastoral...

To recap:  in my prior post, I wrote about the new New York law, and...

Meanwhile, while we've been arguing about whether or not the Covington kids were innocent, or...

Subtitled The Marshall Plan & America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. Folks, I had...

Readers, I typed this up back just before Christmas, but didn't publish it.  Seems even...

That's the way this works, isn't it? After all, on Saturday afternoon and evening, twitter...

Reports are swirling that Trump is planning on proposing a DACA/TPS extension in exchange for...