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April 2019

April 30, 2019
Over at Forbes, I referenced a Washington Post column claiming that it is super-inappropriate to...
April 25, 2019
So I feel obliged to comment on this latest news report about the Boy Scouts,...
April 24, 2019
So Sunday was, of course, Easter, and that means the customary full-page ad in the...
April 21, 2019
So it's been a nice Easter Sunday, actually.  I went to Easter Vigil last night,...
April 15, 2019
First, my memories. For what it's worth, I was at Notre Dame in Paris three...
April 13, 2019
Admittedly, we're not at the "put mom in a home" stage.  But we are getting...
April 09, 2019
What is CFM? CFM stands for Christian Family Movement, though it's specifically a Catholic group. ...
April 08, 2019
Did Arthur Brooks plan for his book Love Your Enemies to be released a few...
April 08, 2019
So here's the latest in the "Jane the Actuary has aging parents" saga:  wheelchairgate. Dad,...
April 01, 2019
You know, I go back and forth on whether I write about my parents and...

March 2019

March 27, 2019
So, apropos of nothing, let's think about anti-vaxxers for a bit, shall we? It seems...
March 26, 2019
In the news today at the Chicago Tribune (and pretty much everywhere else):  "Mayor Emanuel...
March 21, 2019
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to the church door...
March 21, 2019
Yes, I get that it's just a parable, but some years, when the Prodigal Son...
March 16, 2019
So I wrote the other day about a book called Alienated America, the primary thesis...
March 15, 2019
Remember when, back after the Charlie Hebdo attack, everyone changed their profile pictures and said,...
March 05, 2019
So I just finished Tim Carney's Alienated America, and have a few rambly thoughts. To...
March 01, 2019
On The Federalist: "Illinois Considers Another Terrifying Law Allowing Infanticide" -- look, I don't write...

February 2019

February 27, 2019
Chicago had a mayoral election last night. It was a very strange election (yes, 14...
February 24, 2019
Or, "how I spent my weekend." For eight years, I have, for one weekend a...
February 18, 2019
Are you following the mayoral election in Chicago?  It's a crazy scenario, with 14 candidates,...
February 15, 2019
What, you ask, is the "third sex" or "third gender"? It depends. In Oregon, it's...
February 13, 2019
Hey, readers! I just linked to my most recently published Federalist article, and have also,...
February 13, 2019
In 1982, a child was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with a condition called a tracheoesophageal...
February 07, 2019
Let me start with a story or two about World War II. One visit home,...
February 06, 2019
Yes, I know, the Ben Shapiro meme is "facts don't care about your feelings."  But...
February 03, 2019
This post has been updated since its original publication to reflect analysis of the Pastoral...
February 01, 2019
To recap:  in my prior post, I wrote about the new New York law, and...

January 2019

January 30, 2019
Meanwhile, while we've been arguing about whether or not the Covington kids were innocent, or...
January 27, 2019
Subtitled The Marshall Plan & America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. Folks, I had...
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