Collecting My Thoughts

Planned Parenthood Federation of American shows 528,000 active donors on it's most recent tax filing ($1.04 Billion budget). What are th...

State Rep. Chuck Kruger, the Democratic chairman of the Maine Legislature’s Moderate Caucus, tweeted in August, “Cheney deserves same final ...

Accustomed to the rigors of German scholarship and theology, the visiting young student Bonhoeffer not yet 25 writes in 1930 about his colle...

I’ve decided to recommend Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas for next year’s book club selection.  In order to have it finished by the next meeting...

My goodness she has written a lot of books.  It took me awhile to find the right cover photo!  I got it for 90 cents today at the resale sho...

Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp You won't find anything prettier. . . “The videos were shot on 35mm and Paul worked with Academy Award...

The Obamas’ adjusted gross income was their lowest income since 2004 when he wrote his best-selling memoir, “Dreams From My Father: A Story ...

“When I read your constant barrages aimed at the first black president, I think to myself, "Doesn't [Norma], the devout Christian, ...

Creator/Producer Nahnatchka Khan thinks this is real life America.  And maybe it is in his neighborhood.  Turn it off. “Last night Don’...

Of all the great and necessary freedoms listed in the First Amendment, freedom to exercise religion (not just to believe, but to live out t...

To me, it looks like bus transportation is the problem. But what about that metropolitan area traffic for the bus drivers if schools start l...

A Statement on Religious Liberty pdf version to order copies United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee for R...

                         Recently at our Faith of our Fathers group (FOOF) at the UALC Mill Run church we were discussing the removal of m...

--everyone is doing better in this country. The income of households between the 60th and 80th percentiles grew by 40 percent, and those in ...

                             I know nothing about the author of the book review, the author of the book, the murder of this particular lov...

Henninger in today’s WSJ mixes some metaphors, with fortress, ICBMs, carpet-bombing, drinking the Kool-aid,  and encyclicals, but he’s on ta...

This is probably not a lot of money considering the national deficit, but there are thousands of programs like this one.  I’d just been read...

Here is Catholic News Roundup for April 11, 2012 You’ll hear news here that won’t be elsewhere, and see sponsors you’ve never heard of.  I j...

Oh, young people love to hear that one, don't they? My chosen career, librarianship, was and probably still is, at the bottom of the pay...

A blogger I’ve  known only through our shared cyber-space as librarians on discussion lists and as bloggers mentioned at his blog that he ha...