File this post under crotchety dad if you must but I hope it is more than that Today I went with my nearly-five-year-old daughter to see the new Disney movie Toy Story 3 I did not know the storyline or the characters from the first two Toy Story movies but looked up the trailers and read

Most folks along the Gulf coast regarding a view of an environmental apocalypse outside their figurative bay windows might find it merely reasonable to insist on a halt to further drilling until what we suss out precisely what combination of inadequate technology corporate arrogance and MIA gover

Susan Dominus column in Friday s New York Times raises some interesting questions about the relationship between abortion clinics and nbsp adoption agencies Traditionally abortion clinics offered little more than pamplets about adoption but the staff had limited knowledge of how adoption has ev

Last week I called attention to what appeared to me an extraordinarily biased report over at the Catholic News Agency CNA regarding the bishops rsquo meeting in St Petersburg The report contained quotes from what the report said was Cardinal George rsquo s speech to the bishops at a closed-doo

Every move of the Holy Father is examined Thus recently when he prayed before the Shroud of Turin many wondered if he would comment on its authenticity or lack of authenticity of the Shroud As a matter of fact he did not comment on the authenticity Now on the Fourth of July he is making a seco

I saw my doctor Saturday not in the examining room but on the op-ed page of the Washington Post Dr Michael A Newman is one of the most dedicated public servants I know When we think of the phrase public servant we conjure up an image of a politician trying to find a word that poll-tests bette