An outdoor party, sun-dappled afternoon... ... a tuxedoed string quartet, chamber music wafting on the breeze.  Wine-sipped serenity, isla...

Europe has come a long way since the middle ages... Since medieval times, Northern Europeans have gradually grown less cruel, less violen...

Photo: Korea.net Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han) How else could we possibly pay for this? John Paul's visit to N...

ONE DOWN, 434 TO GO Celebrate, Cry, it doesn't matter.  The body politic is hopelessly corrupt and nothing's going to change...

Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Papal Anthem) Here are some of the other selections that will be played in association with the pontiff...

"It is not poverty, but prosperity, that needs explaining."  "Poverty is automatic, but prosperity requires many things - ...

Photo: NRMA Motoring & Services Well the Pope has arrived in the US and was quickly spirited away in a Fiat 500, nice touch. On t...

The next Hagia Sophia? Walter Russell Mead  sums it up: What we are witnessing today is a crisis of two civilizations: The Middle Eas...

Pax Americana: A term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later the world as a result of the preponderan...

Map: Nuclearvacuum The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account...

"There's nothing better for the inside of a man, than the outside of a horse." Attributed to Ronald Reagan, though I ...

A few observations, a few remarks I liked, they may be paraphrased: I forced myself to sit through the entire debate, took nine pages of...

Photo: Michael Vadon Photo: Gage Skidmore Currently the top two contenders in the Republican Party primary race are outsiders.  From...

I just finished, Devil in the White City , by Erik Larson. It is a well-written account of events in 1890's Chicago leading up to the W...

Content based Taxation In an attempt to raise revenue and reconcile the budget against a massive shortfall the Alabama House Ways and ...

If people were hit directly with the full costs of $950 billion farm bills and $1 trillion foreign wars, they would grab their pitchforks a...

Lest we forget.

Photo: Michael Foran Since Friday is reserved for musical posts I offer you this today. On September 10th, 2001 I flew into Boston on ...

French Author Jean Raspail So, we have poor people escaping the misery of their third-world toilets and beating down our doors. As I...

The world is going through an epochal change The West is intellectually, morally and financially bankrupt, and our native population is sh...