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The one-word answer is "no." The three-word version, "eh, probably not." And for more words...

So, look, I am going write this with virtually no effort to source my claims...

  Here's an article at TheDeacon's Bench that caught my eye:  "Revolt: parishioners protest changes...

Folks, I've been wanting to write about the events of the past week, namely, the...

Some years ago, we tried to take the train from our suburb into Chicago for...

16 Later, two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 One woman said: “By...

By "the Bee," I mean, for those for whom it's escaped their notice, the Babylon...

Here's a "scandal" reported by ProPublica Illinois yesterday: "Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their...

So the time since our return from vacation has been taken up by a lot...

Day 14:  back to Rome So I had been surprised that we needed to get...

Day 13:  Livorno. This is a strange sort of stop -- the port of Livorno...

Day 12:  Naples So the original plan was to go to Pompeii, and the only...

Day 10:  Valetta. This was the other half-day, as we didn't dock until 1:00.  Annoyingly,...

Day 8:  Mykonos. It's all about expectations, in the end.  I had low expectations for...

Day 7:  Athens. So I'll start off with a couple planning mistakes: First, we had...

Continuing with my vacation narrative: Day 4:  the start of the cruise. We took our...

So I promised, upon getting back from our vacation, that I would write about it. ...

That's the gist of an argument among fellow Patheos writers that seems to have transpired...

Remember the dust-up about whether Obama believed in "American exceptionalism" -- that is, as shorthand...

You've no doubt read about the latest nonsense in claimed "offensive" symbols:  that Nike was...

So, other than a pre-scheduled post last week, the blogging has been quiet as of...

So regular readers will know I've been engaged in the process of working with my...

SMDH, as they say. Let me start by telling you about the "family bill of...

Ever since Tom Brokaw coined the term the "Greatest Generation" to refer to the men...

"Trust women." That's what we're told, time and again. We should "trust" that there is...

Is it an inaugural address if it's given by a mayor rather than a president? ...

Plus, a link and three questions. First, the insight: GOT is a massive spectacle.  It's...

So in my prior post, I observed that the conventional wisdom that "the only people...

One reads a lot, these days, about what it means to be "pro-life" -- and...

First, an update on the fallout from the Farrakhan speech at St. Sabina's Church in...