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For New Year's: Be perfect

Faith & Inspiration | It's time for New Year's resolutions, if anyone does something so old-fashioned anymore. These annual proclamations have become laughable for their famous failure rates (somewhere around 100 percent by the time of the…

Astonished

Family |  During a post-Christmas family reunion in New York City, my parents, sister, and I attended a Mass at Church of Our Saviour, recommended to us by friends who…

The emergency

Faith & Inspiration |  An emergency hurled in on Christmas Eve. Someone who wasn't supposed to get sick got sick. We all agreed he's not the type. Besides, our church has had more…

Adulterers: Tiger Woods and me

Adulterers: Tiger Woods and me

Faith & Inspiration |  Adultery. I hope I don't commit the sin in 2010, but there's a good chance I will. As Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs became public knowledge at the end…

Liberal media bias shows up in the strangest places

Liberal media bias shows up in the strangest places

Economy |  The mainstream media love lists. On almost any day, open up the paper, or log on to your favorite news website, and there's some sort of list: The Richest…

One step beyond

Faith & Inspiration |  The gift of discernment is biblical and wonderful, but it has mainly been exercised in its negative form. We tend to think of "discernment" as the gift of…

Lie to me

Lie to me

Economy |  "For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and…

Proclaiming Christ on Fox News

Proclaiming Christ on Fox News

Media |  Fox shock! As was noted on WorldMagBlog yesterday, Brit Hume crossed the line of decency on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace (and on Sunday, of all days!) by…

The walk

Faith & Inspiration |  It was freezing the other day: 13 degrees, if you count wind chill---and I count wind chill. But dogs gotta go and I've gotta walk (even though the dog is a…

Hope for

Hope for "Precious"

Issues |  Child sexual abuse cases are reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater according to the American Academy of…

Retirement week

Retirement week

Politics |  The Democratic Party must deal with the game-changing withdrawals of four candidates

Indefinitely detained

Indefinitely detained

National Security |  The D.C. Circuit Court rules in favor of wider detention authority governing terrorist suspects, affirming Bush administration policy

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