On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

Between Unconstitutionality and Unworkability: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: This text was largely drafted and refined between April 10, 2007 and December 30, 2007 with a few finishing bits (including a couple of footnotes and some minor tweaking) being done in t...

On the Passing of Cardinal Avery Dulles SJ: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) I was nearly finished with a posting yesterday on other subject matters when I received the word. Upon hearing this news, I felt compelled to set that material aside and focus on the subject to be covered i...

On How To Approach the Presidential Election Results of 2008 and Analyzing the Political Trends for 2008 and Beyond: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) As we announced in a previous posting, certain exceptions notwithstanding and at our discretion{1}, this is the only posting we inten...

Revisiting the Subject of the Underlying Weltanschauung of "Language Control": (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: I decided to handle this matter in its own posting so it does not make my planned election commentary any longer than necessary.] I have discussed this su...

Miscellaneous Musings: It seems appropriate to note before the tide of the msm orgasms about how thanks to the election that we are about to be "led out of Egypt" and to a "land flowing with milk and honey" precisely what sort of failed policies have been promoted under the banner of "change." One i...

Revisiting the Subject of the Surge and the Deafening Silence of the MSM Thereof: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) One of the advantages of focusing so much on fundamental principles for the positions we have taken and continue to take on various and sundry issues over the years is ...

On the Recent Supreme Court Second Amendment Case: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) Though I recently noted one of the rare examples of where the John Roberts Court had gone astray when it came to a judgment on a case that conformed to judicial interpretation as opposed to judicial ...

On Memorial Day: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: This was mostly composed yesterday in a few spare moments but I was not able to arrange and finish it until just now. -ISM] A day like yesterday is supposed to be different from the average day -though to many it was...