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January 2015

January 25, 2015
Here's a Time Magazine article about it.  Here's another one from the local New Orleans...
January 25, 2015
On Friday, Megan McArdle opinioned on Obama's proposal to tax 529 college savings plans in...
January 25, 2015
Today's readings, my Catholic and liturgical-Protestant readers, will recall, included a passage from Jonah.Who doesn't...
January 24, 2015
Yes, there's little point in addressing the "free community college" plan yet again, considering that...
January 24, 2015
About a year ago, I told you about a new cookbook, "The New Artisan Bread...
January 24, 2015
That's this year's effort -- a collaboration between dad and son, of course, though my...
January 22, 2015
Here's an interview with Blase Cupich, the new archbishop of the Chicago diocese, which he...
January 22, 2015
Just a link, for now:  on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan.  And it's a proposal,...
January 22, 2015
and I don't mean that sarcastically.Yesterday, as we were finishing up dinner, I pulled out...
January 21, 2015
Just for fun, my son's artwork (though I couldn't get the second picture rotated properly):...
January 21, 2015
I've been waiting for lunchtime to write this up:Should the government provide tax credits for...
January 21, 2015
So says my "2016 Presidential Platform Survey" that came in the mail the other day,...
January 21, 2015
This is purely a parked link, that someone referenced on Ann Althouse's blog:  the Consumer...
January 20, 2015
So I didn't actually watch the speech -- which is still going on as I...
January 20, 2015
What is Obama up to?He's proposing a multitude of programs that have no chance of...
January 20, 2015
Yeah, once again, this is a question rather than some actual commentary or information.  But...
January 19, 2015
Back in the fall, I wrote a longish post on women wanting to be priests....
January 19, 2015
This falls in the category of, "curious about readers' opinions" -- or, really, curious about...
January 17, 2015
I had written on this before, as part of another post, but I wanted to...
January 17, 2015
For the time being, this post is more of a placeholder, until I summarize the...
January 16, 2015
Here's a story from the New York Times about Korean adoptees returning to Korea and...
January 16, 2015
Seemingly to justify their own policy, the AP has a story out (in the Trib...
January 16, 2015
Of course we've got to talk about the now-infamous "James Taylor sings 'You've Got a...
January 15, 2015
So I finally got around to watching infamous video of Obama's remarks on the attack...
January 13, 2015
So there's a complaint floating out there that it's inappropriate of the media and politicians...
January 12, 2015
So yesterday I told you all about a couple things I'd read on the question...
January 12, 2015
Anyone have experience with this?  Know how to appeal?  In any case, it's a lousy...
January 11, 2015
OK, "Part One" was just an invitation for comments.  And I spent most of my...
January 11, 2015
Idiots.So I've written a couple posts on "moderate Islam" over the last couple days, and,...
January 10, 2015
From my sole window to the world of the French people, an old high school...
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