…where the biggest national crisis is “Will they make The Hobbit here?” Poor Peter Jackson, he sounds like he’s at the end of his rope in that interview. Read more

A reader writes: I wanted to say thank you, copiously, for posting my prayer request about my brother’s yet-to-be-born son. I showed some of my family, and they were all just so appreciative! All of the test results were fantastic, as were the measurements of the child. Things are really, really looking up. Of course, as with all children, nothing is certain and he could still use prayers, but things are looking very good. Thank you, and all your readers,... Read more

to fans of Norman Borlaug (who you can learn more about here): Borlaug Volume 3 has just been published. This one covers the 1960s, the decade of triumph in which Dr B. goes from facing unemployment to lifting millions in India and Pakistan out of famine. These pages expose dozens more adventures, surprises, and angels of deliverance as he rises from his career’s low point to its ultimate high. Expect more tears. And lots of cheers! Like Volumes 1 and... Read more

Michigan Woman Faces Civil Rights Complaint for Seeking a Christian Roommate This sort of meddlesome tyranny is why the Tea Parties exist. We’re talking about somebody who advertized for a roommate in a church bulletin. The tinhorn dictator with delusions of godhood who is using her office to attack this innocent citizen needs to be fired and her office padlocked and fumigated. Read more

Read this on Instapundit, his last line read as if “Mark Shea” had written it. Hope you are doing well. HERESY: VALERIE JARRETT HAS TO APOLOGIZE FOR CALLING HOMOSEXUALITY “A LIFESTYLE CHOICE.” Ann Althouse comments: I remember back in the 1980s, in the radical enclaves of the University of Wisconsin Law School and similar places, when it was heresy to say that sexual orientation was inborn. I remember getting snapped at by a very prominent left-wing lawprof for referring without... Read more

writ very small in the mindless motions of molecules that temporarily comprises the brain of Sam Harris. For no particular reason, this collection of molecules desires that the collection of molecules temporarily known as “you” reconfigure you brain molecules in such a way as to conform to morality he calls “good”. Why it is “good” apart from his completely arbitrary declaration that it is so is not made clear. And he’s not stealing from religious transcendence or anything. Read more

Had a big article to finish and that took priority. Please continue to pray for Lorna and her family. Her mother is having a particularly rough patch right now and needs your prayers. Plus it looks like they are putting off the tracheotomy till Monday. She’s in a lot of pain and her heart is beating too fast. She still has a long way to go. You just want to scream, “Why?” Also, I’d like to ask prayers for a... Read more

Tea Party darling, Sarah Palin-endorsed Stephen Broden “stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.” Angle, Iott, Miller and Broden: Tea Party Fascists on the March! The more these people gaze upon the terror of the Nazis under the bed that haunt their Beck-filled dreams, the more they slowiy turn into that which they fear most. Aristotle is right: we become like that which... Read more

…as we continue giving free passes to the Angles and their suggestions that “second amendment remedies” might be justified if the vote does not deal with the “Harry Reid problems”, as well as Iotts who celebrate the brave idealists of the Waffen SS with their sons, it’s also worth asking of the Millers: If it’s not completely intolerable to have active-duty soldiers handcuffing American journalists on U.S. soil while acting as private “guards” for Senate candidates, what would be? For... Read more

Everything that’s wrong with contemporary catechisis all crammed into two paragraphs: “Pamela Lambert, a 46-year-old practicing Catholic from Dartmouth, Mass., said she makes a pilgrimage to Stathopoulos’ [witchcraft] shop every October. “I’m a Christian, but I still have that spiritual side, too,” Lambert said. “I believe in God, but I also believe in spirits. I’m fascinated by the whole season of witches, the October season. … People always look for answers.” So far off she’s not even wrong. Where do... Read more