Miscellaneous

President Trump's approval rating is at 39 percent, according to a new poll. The latest Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows Trump at a historic low compared with prior presidents in their first weeks in office. The poll found just 39 percent approve of his job performance

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, man. This is depressing: Orbis Books is issuing James Martin's Essential Writings as a volume in its Modern Spiritual Masters series. That's really disappointing. I've really liked what I've seen in this series. I wonder if the book will

The U.S. Army has officially lifted its ban on soldiers having dreadlocks. This is good news for the Army's elite Hacky Sack Corps. Conan

Reference: Monday the 13th Post. Kirk's distrust of libertarianism seems to stem exclusively from its demonic individualist strain, that of Isabel Paterson and Ayn Rand. Those, ahem, challenging women's personalities, aggressive prose, and egos drove him away . . . and rightly so. (I once dealt with an unpleasant

Miscellaneous Rambling I realized after posting that link to my Russell Kirk piece that it was published 14 years ago. Man, I'm getting old. And given that I worked on it for a few years (off and on), my thoughts in the piece reflect a man nearly twenty

Miscellaneous Rambling I dislike "Monday the 13th" more than "Friday the 13th." Article for my kids: Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/11/why-you-should-stay-in-your-hometown.html] . The answer is, "permanence." It's worth reading. Excerpt: "The benefits

So did my appeal to President Trump to roll out a program for our peaceful Mexican immigrants [http://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=42096] have the opposite effect? Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/immigration-raids-enforcement.html?_r=0]. I must say,

Great piece by Jeffrey Tucker: What Happens When Trump Takes Over the Vatican? [https://fee.org/articles/what-happens-when-trump-takes-over-the-vatican/] But the title is misleading. It's really an article about HBO's new series, The Young Pope, a series that I assumed would be highly disrespectful but apparently isn&

Brews You Can Use I like the quasi-religious moments. I had one last Friday. I'd had another brutal week at the office, which I concluded with a trip to a Kalamazoo doctor. I then drove back south to meet Jack (my college son) at a pub in the

Jason Scott Jones has written one of the better pieces of the young year: On Immigration, Winning Cheap Grace [https://stream.org/on-immigration-winning-cheap-grace/]. > The great theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote scathingly of “cheap grace,” which is the warm fuzzy feeling we give ourselves, and the praise we win from others,