The Narthex
Grumpy Old Men
Can they be saints? God does write straight with crooked lines
By James Hanink | August 26th 2024 12:07 AMSome of my best friends are grumpy old men. So the question arises: Can they be saints? Let’s hope so. Keep in mind, gentle reader, that not so long ago a concerned lady, a scholar of note, asked me whether the NOR itself had fallen into the hands of grumpy…
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We might fix a lot of our problems by listening to "doin' what comes naturally"
By John M. Grondelski | May 13th 2024 2:02 PMHas our modern world made things that, for earlier generations came naturally, harder? And, in fact, do those things have to be harder? Tim Carney, author of Family Unfriendly, says there are contemporary changes in society that do make being a parent harder, both objectively (if kids don’t have sidewalks,…
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Book publishers, school librarians, and teachers sue to corrupt children
By James Thunder | April 29th 2024 12:08 PMOn April 16, the Wall Street Journal reported that five large book publishers have joined the case filed by a sixth large publisher to prevent the State of Iowa from restricting the purchase or use of certain books for school libraries and classrooms (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, “Major Publishers Join Iowa…
READ FULL BLOG POSTMasking Attitudes
Activists chant 'death to America' while cowering behind surgical masks
By John M. Grondelski | April 19th 2024 3:23 PMLast weekend, as Iran launched missiles and drones on Israel, that coterie of pro-terrorist leftists Lenin once aptly titled “useful idiots” were launching protests in various American cities. One social media posting showed a group in Chicago learning Persian. They were learning marg bar Asra’eyl (“death to Israel”) and marg…
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