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An exception--perhaps the only one in the 435-member US House of Representatives--to congressional pork-chasing is John Boehner. Boehner rep...

Ann Althouse, noting the diminishing regard of the public for the US Congress, as noted in an article in today's New York Times , says t...

I have no way of checking this, but I have the impression that the audience for this blog tilts decisively toward female readers. All of the...

By now, the story of King George III's diary entry for July 4, 1776 is well-known. Unaware that some three-thousand miles away, upstarts...

When you take the time to click on The Hunger Site each day, you help feed hungry people. Go here .

Purple Kangaroo shows us some paraphrases of a passage from the opening words of the New Testament book of Titus. They were written by the ...

So, says the Crazy Woman . And the rest of what she writes here is worth the read too, especially for anyone trying to perform a similar ba...

Here in the Cincinnati area, the main topics of discussion, appear to be (and in this order): 1. What are the Reds going to do, if anything,...

I haven't watched a game in the NBA since one in which Jordan led the Bulls against the Rockets in the playoffs some years ago. So, othe...

Amanda Witt posts a funny conversation about girls, bikinis, boys, and hormones that she had recently with her three kids. Of particular in...

When people ask me why I do things that are in the "above and beyond the call of duty" category, like writing this blog, I tell th...

Tod Bolsinger is a fine writer and thinker. His book, It Takes a Church, has received major recognition. Read about it here . Congratulation...

Rob Asghar's new Creators Syndicate column debuted today. Anyone who reads this blog knows what a fantastic writer I think Rob is. I...

I'm getting in as much New York Times column-reading as I can before the eminences there impose their punditry-for-a-price policy. Toda...

God was meeting with Moses on Mount Sinai, giving Moses, the representative of God's chosen people His law. Meanwhile, those same people...

Ann Althouse disses Norman Mailer's "theory" that the Newsweek Koran-desecration story was created by functionaries in the B...

Mark D. Roberts is writing a fabulous series, When Someone Sins Against You , on his blog right now. I recommend it highly!

This report from MSNBC demonstrates the likely impact of the now-retracted Newsweek story which had alleged abuse of the Koran by US inte...

I used to be an atheist. Because I had never seen God, I concluded He didn't exist. I wrote off those who confessed faith as weak people...

Two articles in the latest issue of The Economist have particularly interested me. Their diverse topics bear some relationship to one anoth...