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Touchstone has made available online David Mills’ article ” Bad Books for Kids ,” which won first place in the practical theology category of the Associated Church Press competition : You may be surprised, if you don’t keep up on these things, and few of us have any reason . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, the Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol proposed an intriguing replacement for Gen. McChrystal: If Gen. McChrystal does step down, there are undoubtedly many able general officers who could replace him. Here’s one unconventional suggestion, though: Ask Gen. David Petraeus to give up . . . . Continue Reading »

Two more to add to the list : 11. Planned Parenthood’s latest ad: As my friend Jill Stanek says , “PP now specializes in aborting natural pregnancies and inseminating unnatural pregnancies - breaking up natural families and bonding unnatural families.” 12. From a news story . . . . Continue Reading »

“The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses,” says political scientist Dan Drezner, “ . . . poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world.” In his amusing essay for Foreign Policy magazine, . . . . Continue Reading »

Oldest known depictions of Andrew and John among the discovery: In what is thought to be the tomb of a Roman noblewoman in the Catacombs of St. Tecla, the oldest known images of the Apostles Andrew and John have been discovered. The find was presented today a a press conference led by the president . . . . Continue Reading »

10. A recent report reveals that Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) audits show the organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth’s own annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week at The Corner , Daniel Foster quoted a reader as saying, “I’m always astonished by the ability of Economist obits to make you miss someone you never knew existed.” That’s the way I felt after watching this brief clip of legendary coach John Wooden , who passed away . . . . Continue Reading »

Does your Jewish family want to earn $50,000? Pack up the U-Haul and learn to say “y’all” : Of the 140 houses of worship in Dothan, Alabama—a city of 68,000 residents and the self-proclaimed “Peanut Capital of the World”—just one is a synagogue. Members of that . . . . Continue Reading »

The pop culture critics at  L’ Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, have already shown they have questionable taste in music . Now their choice of movies is likely to to raise a few eyebrows: They’ve added The Blues Brothers to their list of “Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Alain de Botton on fasting for the mind : A student pursuing a degree in the humanities can expect to run through 1,000 books before graduation day. A wealthy family in England in 1250 might have owned three books: a Bible, a collection of prayers, and a life of the saints—this modestly . . . . Continue Reading »