Why not? The judiciary has consistently ruled against the nullification doctrine, asserting its unique, judicial right to declare laws uncon...

Thanks to a helpful application, I'm learning a bit more about the twelve-day feast that begins on Christmas day. Today is the feast of...

Also, of course, the Feast of St. Stephen , martyr of Jerusalem, and the first recorded martyr of Christianity (unless one considers Jesus...

On Christmas Eve, the story continues. This translation is not my favorite, but it's nice to hear the tale.

The closest town to here is small enough that the Post Office doesn't deliver mail. It doesn't have a stop light, either, just a fo...

(So calls this night a child of an old friend of mine, because 'Adam comes before Eve.')

I never liked Dickens .

You're only likely to disagree with everything or nothing he has to say. Reminds me of something Waylon Jennings said: 'Only thi...

There's a Frenchman claiming that the US Navy shot down the Malaysian airlines Boeing 777 that went missing this year. It's just...

Not quite there yet. But a universal faith must appeal to all human modes. Since Tex mentioned Die Hard : Christmas in a rockabilly...

A discussion at Maggie's Farm : A Politically Correct Zen Riddle "One civil rights group is outraged at Bowdoin College’s outr...

Given the recent discussion of torture as practiced by the United States in the war on terror, Medievalists.net dug up a 2006 article calle...

We like the lower prices a the gas pump, but everyone's worried about the effect of the falling price of crude oil on the oil industry a...

C.S. Lewis believed that all old mythologies were shadows of the Christian truth, and liked to play with the influences on Earth of the five...

As we sort out a very difficult moment, a tradition holds . For 32 years, Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has provided fo...

Looking back at the city from the Church of Scotland. From the gardens of Gethsemane. Between the Zion and Jaffa gates.

This rousing old gospel Christmas tune is also a folk mnemonic for the months of the year.

Even this close to Christmas, you have to make time for a little hot rodding.