End the Rule of Celibacy for Mayors and This Will Never Happen Again Read more

More Information Than You Require about the Anthem “Hail to the Chief” It’s Wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt. However, I did enjoy this: In the film My Fellow Americans, two ex-Presidents played by Jack Lemmon and James Garner discuss their annoyance at hearing the song played wherever they would go. Humorously, they both admit they made up their own lyrics in their head (“Hail to the chief, he’s the chief and he needs hailing, he is... Read more

The Inimitable Kate Schori Holds Forth on the Oppressive Catholic Church To pass from the Church of Lewis, Sayers and Williams to this in one short lifetime. What a letdown. Sayers would have had this sort of dimwitted nonsense for breakfast. Read more

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?” A reasonable question. Read more

Walk for Life West Coast It will be held this coming Saturday in San Francisco. Also, here in Washington, there is a March for Life on the capitol today, a fitting way to welcome the reign of our new Democrat Overlords. Read more

Saint Superman Surveys Just a Part of the Vast Field of Wreckage George W. Bush: God’s gift to Barack Obama and American Liberals. We will be paying for his catastrophic administration for a very long time. Yes, there is an absurd messianic hope in the incoming President. But in addition there is a huge national sigh of relief akin to the feeling one has after a blinding headache goes away. So: thanks, Mr. Bush for Roberts and Alito (who seem... Read more

Cardinal George’s Letter to Obama Here’s hoping. Read more

Fr. Pat Reardon on the History of American Evangelical Responses to Islam Interesting stuff from an Orthodox priest and editor of Touchstone. Read more

And now I re-submerge in work I have to write 26 columns (I finished 10 last week), finish the edits on the Mary trilogy galleys (2 down, 1 to go!), finish edits on another book project, and begin working on yet another book. All this has to happen before I go to Savannah March 2 to shoot Manalive for the whole month of March. Oh, and I’m in Wylie, TX this weekend (near Dallas) and next month I have three... Read more

Everybody Else has the Video of the Miracle on the Hudson But how many blogs have the insta-folk song written by Garrison Keillor to honor the amazing (and amazingly named) Chesley B. Sullenberger III? /**/ Hats off to a great hero! Read more