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 Palestinians and Israel: One nice thing about gmail is it has email and chat archives which (like the archives of this weblog) are very helpful in reminding your host of arguments made, positions taken, or predictions prognosticated upon in years past.{1} With the current response by Israel t...

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...

"Down on the Corner" Dept. (A Rerum Novarum Five Thread NRO Commentary) A few musings on these threads from recent days... Did W Backfire? (NRO) Interesting hypothesis by Tom Hoopes -here is the gist of what the article is about in its own words: Reviewers keep remarking on the strange phenomenon. T...

Briefly on Democratic Party Complete Control of Goverment: (Aka "One From the Vault" Dept.) This is not too deep a dip into the proverbial "vault" of responses written to inquiries on certain issues either personally or generally -actually then main text was written a few days ago. Nonetheless, the ...

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 Coercion, the War on Terror, "Torture", and "Fantasy Situations": (An Attempted Dialogue With the Words of Mark Shea -Part III of III) To read the previous part to this thread, please go here. To start from the beginning of this series, please go here. Without further ado (and yet again with Mark...

On Coercion, the War on Terror, "Torture", and "Fantasy Situations": (An Attempted Dialogue With the Words of Mark Shea -Part II of III) To read the first part of this thread, please go here. Without further ado (and again with Mark Shea's words in dark green font)... And we need to start that conve...

On Coercion, the War on Terror, "Torture", and "Fantasy Situations": (An Attempted Dialogue With the Words of Mark Shea -Part I of III) [Prefatory Note: This material was primarily written last October but for various and sundry reasons remained incomplete until recently when I had a bit of time and...