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Eric Scheske

Further Testimony for Public Schools

> Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans [ages 18-24] recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_us/where_s_

Great Opportunity

Looking to stretch your charitable horizons? Try this website: PrisonerLife dot Com [http://www.prisonerlife.com/index.cfm]. There are all sorts of links that let you reach out to prisoners, like this one: MEET REAL PRISONERS SEEKING REAL PEN PALS [http://www.prisonerlife.com/personals-picsearch.cfm]. I think women

White Guilt

Shelby Steele at WSJ, [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318]courtesy of Suicide [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=289]: > After World War II, revolutions across the globe, from India to Algeria and from Indonesia to the American civil rights revolution, defeated the authority inherent in white supremacy,

Hide Your Goat

More and more of these stories are coming, and we still have seven weeks to go: > With June 6, 2006, rapidly approaching, authorities in Colorado and elsewhere are carefully watching to see if that date - 6/6/06 - spurs demonstrations or violent activity [http://www.denverpost.com/

Quarterly Men

I've started reading a new publication, and I'm recommending it to readers: Catholic Men's Quarterly [http://www.houseonthemoor.com/]. I received sample issues in the mail two weeks ago, and I was impressed. Drink, humor, history, travel, theology. Each issue is 44 pages, and

May Day

Finally, a Catholic cleric who doesn't think every person who opposes mass asylum is being a bad Christian. Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox Central [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193783,00.html]. The man even uses common sense and doesn't denigrate the spiritual life

Chesterton in Russia

Every so often, you run across an odd little piece. Here, I've found an odd big piece [http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/G.K._Chesterton_in_Russia.pdf] at Road to Emmaus [http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/articleextracts.html] magazine's website. It's a collection of writings

I Hate Debt Dot Com

This week's Our Sunday Visitor has a great focus piece about indebtedness. Among other things, it mentioned this great website [http://www.ihatedebt.com/], which contains all sorts of debt information and analysis from a Christian perspective. I really liked the snapshot of our country's current

The New Holiday

The Occident doesn't believe in the devil anymore. Or if it does believe in him, it doesn't fear him. You might say the devil and his power to inflict suffering are grossly under-appreciated in the West today. Yet though the devil is under-appreciated, he's

Silly (but Omnipotent) Chinese Commies

> The Patriotic Association, the state-controlled Church in China, has ignored the Holy See's wishes and ordained a new bishop, the BBC reported. . . . > The Holy See had called for a delay in the appointment over concerns the bishop is inexperienced and too closely aligned with China'