The Fifth Column

"In lab rats, "Who's your daddy?" can now yield a surprising answer. Scientists have generated rats from mice that develo...

http://www.catholicprwire.com/headline.php?ID=2103 (the above link has been "memory-holed" - try this link instead: http://...

Back in the 1970’s and early 80’s, one of the popular rallying cries of the pro-abortion movement was exactly the comparison made in the ess...

The convergence of terrorism and technology may lead to the collapse of air travel, and that will have interesting repurcussions for the glo...

Since I moved to Dallas, I have had the occasion to listen to a much greater variety of radio on my morning drive to work. Among the host of...

Everyone seems to think World War III has started. Newt Gingrich, President Bush, Sean Hannity – the opinions are coming fast and furious. U...

It is an old tradition (with a small "t") that burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard of a house that is for sale will make it...

Over the course of the last six months, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the Catholic publishing world. The long and short of t...

The New York Times is all in a huff about Ann Coulter’s newest book, “Godless.” Seems they don’t like how Ann points out the shameless cele...

In a rare interview, Der Spiegel talks with Dan Brown about his upcoming trip to Germany and his views on the Holocaust: SPIEGEL: Mr. Brow...

Want to know why the government refuses to stop illegal immigration? Read the US Census Bureau numbers. Non-Hispanic whites make up 67 perc...

This just in from the AP wire desk: (Los Angeles) - Cities across the nation are in upheavel as Catholics, Christians and Jews riot over the...

In the early twentieth century, social justice types decided that liquor was evil and must be banned. Laws were duly passed outlawing demon ...

As with the recent frothing at the mouth over Christmas, the Christian concern about the Da Vinci Code is rich in irony. As I recently noted...

Killing Them Softly “My sister, Andrea Clark, is soon going to be REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT At St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, despite the f...

The USSR, requiem in pace, required internal passports. If you wished to travel from one city to another, one state to another, one region t...

Some of you may be aware of my continuing disagreement with Carl Olson and Ignatius Press. I believe I can sum up the entire argument in jus...

“Everyone misses it,” Teabing said. “Our preconceived notions… are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our ey...

I don't normally publish anything from the SSPX, as their bishops are excommunicate and they are deeply unreliable in their theology. Ho...

Looks like we'll need to update the words of the Emma Lazarus poem, "Give Us Your Poor." A federal judge has ruled that an ill...