DarwinCatholic

It seems like most years I read somewhere between 20 and 30 books. At any given time, I have a more than that many books on my "to rea...

In Part 1 I discussed the history of military service rifles and the development of the "assault rifle" during and after World War...

This is part one of a series on "assault weapons", a topic likely to be in the news a great deal as the new congress tackles the p...

All right! It's almost 11:30 the night before we start up lessons again, so it's prime time for me to start my lesson planning. This...

This is one of those lovely years where the date of Epiphany, January 6, twelve days after Christmas, lines up with Sunday, ensuring that t...

What I'm drinking. What I'm watching. How I'm feeling.

The opening of this piece really struck me: Lance Armstrong, the former professional cyclist who was recently stripped of his seven Tour ...

Our friend from Austin, Jennifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary , went into the hospital yesterday with pulmonary embolisms in both lungs. She...

Today is the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, one of my favorite devotions. There are so many feasts devoted to Jesus in his various manifes...

or, An Over-long Expected Movie [Yes, there will be some spoilers.] All joking aside, I enjoyed the first part of Peter Jackson's t...

I had a chance to see not one, but two movies over the holidays. (In regards to the frequency of my movie-going, this is a statement some...

I have a some more substantive posts on guns and gun control brewing, but this struck me as an interesting quick topic. Megan McArdle has a...

With it looking increasingly likely that we will "go over the fiscal cliff" at least temporarily (once everyone's tax rates ha...

I'm back in the office today, getting in some much needed time on a couple of big projects and saving my vacation days for later. Howev...

Just when you think trends, and the television shows about them, couldn't get any more vapid, here we have Wives with Beehives , a pro...

People, please. You knew the world wasn't going to end yesterday when this didn't happen.

Refreshed and completely meditated out, Esther roared back into Stillwater like a gathering hurricane, ready to whisk up everything in ...