I’ve got a bale of stuff to do, but before I go I want to remind you all again to please be as generous as you can to Rod Bennett and his family, who have lost everything in the recent Georgia flooding. Remember, log on to PayPal and click on the “Send Money” tab. Then enter Rod’s email address ([email protected]) and be as generous as you can be. Do NOT–I repeat, NOT–send the money to me by clicking on my... Read more

you don’t get freedom and you don’t even get anarchy, says the Prophet Chesterton. You get the small laws. So, for instance, a society which holds the big things like the sanctity of the family and the safety of children in contempt winds up with stupid micromanaging small laws like this. Read more

Now Obama is an “enemy of humanity“, not to mention Hitler and Stalin and Magneto and Lex Luthor and Ming the Merciless. There’s a point of diminishing returns in political rhetoric where you hit bottom and either think, “Okay. Perhaps I’m getting carried away here” or you remain in the Bubble, keep screaming like the boy who cried wolf and lose all credibility with normal people, who start eyeing their watches nervously and backing away from you slowly. Clues for... Read more

Here’s a website by a lady who’s trying to get Catholic artists together for mutual encouragement and support in London. Check thou it out! Read more

A reader writes: Special mortgages for VIPs with tens of thousands of dollars off because they’ve managed to burrow their way to the top of the pile of . . uh . . . explotation that is America’s corporate and political life. How many other “friends” clubs are out there? Special car loans, special deals, perks and pips galore, while the foreclosure crisis these weevils were elected to “stop” rolls on unabated. Sheesh. And people wonder why I have no... Read more

A reader asks: Could you help me interpret some symbols on a painting of Jesus on the Cross. I recently purchased it and am curious. On the top of the cross are 4 letters and 3 (Greek?) symbols. It reads O – B – G -(reverse h) – T – (triangle) – (Z with a horizontal line through the middle) By Jesus’s left wrist are two letters IC and His right wrist XC. I am sure this means Jesus but... Read more

… of the band “Emerson and Thoreau” sends along this little Chesterton-inspired ditty: Child of My Age(Nick Perry) At this time I’ll proudly sayI am a Child of My AgeI have no truthsThey change from day to dayFads and fashions fill my mindNew philosophies I’ll subscribe toAnd then reject when a newer one comes along Progress is ever changingI must not get behindWhat use does the past have for one with such a modern mind?Tell me all your beliefs and... Read more

Kate Harding labors to bring our Polanski-adoring elites back to the central point: Roman Polanski raped a child. I hate being right all the time, but I predicted exactly this years ago. The reality has never been that our elites much care about victims of sexual abuse: they care about having a useful tool to bash the Church, which some pervert priests and (far more) some spectacularly bad bishops have handed them. But the fact remains that, when the Right... Read more

an argument to demand that parents be licensed. Read more

In which we examine the sundry ways the New Atheists (who are really quite antique Old Atheists) crib from supernaturalism and live by faith, not by sight to prop up their various New Improved Systems. Read more