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Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert!

I confess I have having a rather glum day today, and then I saw something that cheered me immensely. Somewhere in the world are kindred souls to mine, who remember the old, fine, strong stories and seek to see them … Continue reading

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Orson Scott Card Blacklisted for Christian Faith

From the pen of David Blount over at the site Moonbattery There’s a price to be paid by countermoonbats with courage enough to stand up for decency and sanity in a culture that is swirling down the toilet. Ask Orson … Continue reading

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New York Times Hates the Pope

An article from the Andrew Klavan, which I here reprint in full: When Benedict XVI was pope, the New York Times ran a scurrilous, distortion-infested campaign intended to link the former Joseph Ratzinger with the awful abuse scandals that have … Continue reading

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On Writing Adventures

Wright’s writing corner has a guest writer, Vonnie Winslow Crist, this week! Excerpt: JRR Tolkien wrote: “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” And thank goodness it’s true! For … Continue reading

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G.I. Jane Speaks

Only posting a link, or, rather, a letter from a female vet who goes by the handle ‘Sentry.’ Hat tip to Jazz Shaw at Hot Air for this letter: I’m a female veteran. I deployed to Anbar Province, Iraq. When … Continue reading

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Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!

I miss the days when I was a card-carrying Libertarian. We may have been semi-anarchist pro-porn selfish nuts, but at least there were none among us who could be accused of favoring totalitarian tyranny over Constitutional government. As a conservative, … Continue reading

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Tell the Boy Scout Leadership to show some Leadership

From Catholic and Enjoying It. … Sadly it seems that National [Boy Scout Leadership] is considering trying to punt the matter to the unit level, with the chartering organization deciding on whether to admit homosexuals or not.  Would be hard … Continue reading

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What Difference Does It Make?

My Jesuit Confessor, Father de Casuist, tells me that if I am allowed to post links before Friday, I can post videos. This is the best one I have seen all year. I am puzzled that no GOP politician talks … Continue reading

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Boy Scouts to Follow the Girl Scouts into the Abyss

Only posting a link, and hoping you will call your local scoutmaster. Get involved. Protest. Make some noise. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/28/16739587-boy-scouts-close-to-ending-ban-on-gay-members-leaders? If the Boy Scouts go, that will be the last institution left in America, outside the Church, which seeks to build … Continue reading

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Be Fruitless and Dwindle, and be Subdued, and Die

Words of wisdom from a woman who knows. http://thewomanandthedragon.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/artificial-birth-control-satans-little-helper/ It is not Friday, but I am allowed to post links. I commend the insight into feminism, which, to be honest, had never occurred to me before.

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Guest Post by William M Briggs: Firearm Homicides Dropping

I am permitted even when it is not a Friday to post articles written by others, as here, where Mr Briggs has prevailed upon all men of good will to come to the aid of their country. Having trampled the … Continue reading

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Lin Carter Ave Atque Vale

I found this article by sheer mischance by one Stephen Aulicino. Out of love for the memory of an editor who, albeit I never met him, by his Ballatine Adult Fantasy series formed so much of my youthful imagination and … Continue reading

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Heroes of Darkness and Light

My essay, “Heroes of Light and Darkness,” went up this morning on smartpopbooks.com, and will remain available until Wednesday at 12:00 AM at http://www.smartpopbooks.com/heroes-of-darkness-and-light/ To whet your appetite and pique your interest, here is the opening. 1. Dark Knights and … Continue reading

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The Futility of Man’s Search for Meaning

Here is a very insightful, I am tempted to say brilliant, article by “Spengler” in the Asia Times. The article is an argument against the central effort of modernity, namely, man’s search for meaning. The article interprets this “search for … Continue reading

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Leftroids Usurp Wikipedia

Nicole Swinford of the College Fix: Prominent gender and media studies professors from across the country converged recently to help host what was dubbed by organizers as a “Feminist, Anti-Racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” to create or influence dozens of entries on the … Continue reading

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Obama Usurps Schools

Well, that did not take long. You voted for him, America, and now he will revise what your children are taught in schools. Suckers. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/334645/obamacore-white-house-takes-schools-stanley-kurtz Is it, of course, unconstitutional for the administration to dictate to your local school board … Continue reading

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School Removes God from a First Grader’s Veteran’s Day Poem

I am not making this up. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/29/school-removes-god-first-graders-poem Welcome to O-merica.

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Quote of the Day

“Poetic license” is the freedom allowed to writers for achieving literary effects by deviating from facts, conventional logic, or standard grammar and spelling. “Political license” is the freedom allowed to politicians to make statements deviating from facts, logic, principle, or … Continue reading

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Revenge of the Mediterranean Man

The most insightful essay on North and South — I mean Northern and Southern Europe — I have to date read. The Platonic idea mentioned here, of music being more central to the nation than her laws, is one I … Continue reading

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The Other Side of the Picture

This was written by Flannery O’Conner (who, along with Dean Koontz and Walker Percy, ranks as the most widely famed of Catholic and Southern authors) to a student who had, or thought he had, lost his faith in College. 30 … Continue reading

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Ellis Wyatt, Phone your Office

In news naturally ignored by the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and virtually everyone else in the establishment media, The Hill reported late last week that the Interior Department “issued a final plan to close 1.6 … Continue reading

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Jordan 179 on Political Culture

Today’s must-read article on the nature and pacing of political change: http://jordan179.livejournal.com/255430.html …. the State is now doing something which, decades ago, would have led to protest and possibly violent rebellion, which is now just accepted as “the way things … Continue reading

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Weigel Shifting Through the Wreckage

From the pen of George Weigel: Five weeks before Election Day, I had lunch with the head of state of one of America’s closest European allies. When I asked him how our politics looked to him from a distance of … Continue reading

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Michael Walsh on the Price of Liberty

A man with whom I wholly agree. I shall not scruple to reprint the whole of his short article here.  Crush Them By Michael Walsh November 5, 2012 7:16 P.M. Conservatives have a rare opportunity tomorrow to do something they signally … Continue reading

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God of the Copybook Headings

http://andstillipersist.com/2012/11/the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings-illustrated/ Happy Election Day!  

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