New Blogs of Note

One of the benefits of blogging is that you find out about other interesting sites from blogs you frequent (eg Hugh Hewitt, Powerline), from articles about blogging or from bloggers who visit your own site.

Following are brief synopses of three fascinating blogs I have recently discovered.

Pray the News is a site run by five Carmelite nuns from their monastery in Indianapolis. Sisters Betty, Terese, Ruth, Jean and Joanne comment on the topics of the day from a Roman Catholic perspective, offering lessons derived from current events. On-line only two years, the site averages over 65 thousand hits a day, at least 64,999 more than your humble pvblogger. Pray the News has a practical activist philosophy: “By continuously making ourselves aware of the present state of the universe, we awaken ourselves to the presence of God – and in our own way participate in the healing, loving and creative energy this process can spark.” These are not your father’s “Sisters.” Another page hosts the School of Prayer where you can learn “how” to pray more effectively and can even light a digital votive candle. You have the option of sharing your prayer with the Sisters and having it added to their prayer list.

People-vs-ACLU is a new blog by Dan in Denver. It is an “aggregate for the people to battle with the ACLU.” Dan’s blog effectively explains “why the ACLU is so loved in middle states America.” Just kidding!! As the ACLU is currently the most anti-American-culture institution in the United States and a serious threat to our democracy and security, the People-vs-ACLU blog is well worth following.

The Daily Vegetable is Stephanie Herman’s “web portal for daily vegetable news.” A sampling of Stephanie’s posts - MOMS ARE VEGETABLE ROLE MODELS, SUNY STUDENT BUILDS VEGETABLE OIL CONVERTER, and ONIONS MAY PREVENT BONE LOSS – reveals an interesting mix of food, environmentalism and politics. The Daily Veggie motto: "As a man thinketh, so is he." If it's true that you are what you eat, then it's equally true that you are what you think about.

Professor Bainbridge is a corporate law professor at UCLA. Here is a sample of his writing. "Senator Barbara Boxer says John Bolton holds the UN in disdain, which Babs seem to think is somehow disqualifying. It seems to me that this ought to be part of the job description for US ambassador to Turtle Bay. The oil for food scandal, peacekeepers raping the folks they're supposed to protect , nepotism, Libya chairs the UN Human Rights Commission, demanding that the US taxpayer pay 1/5 of its budget, France has a veto, for pete's sake. What Boxer doesn't seem to get is that her party lost the White House and is in the minority in both the House and Senate in no small part because the Democrats are (correctly) seen as putting multilateralism ahead of pursuing US interests."
Under the heading of Creepy: The "ew, gross" factor of the Michael Jackson trial just keeps getting worse. So now it's head licking ? Yuck.

WILLisms is a blog by Will Franklin with great commentary complemented by fabulous graphics. On Congressman Charlie Rangle’s interview by Hardball host Chris Mathews:

MATTHEWS: I mean, Charlie, Jesus didn‘t hang around with the swells, the rich people.
RANGEL: Well, he said the rich are going straight to hell.
MATTHEWS: He did not. He said it is harder to get through a needle‘s…
RANGEL: No. But the deal with St. Matthews and all these people are trying to get into heaven. And he said, hey, when I was hungry, you didn‘t feed me. I was thirsty. I was naked. I was sick. You didn‘t do all these—he‘s talking about food stamps, Social Security.

Ah, moral values, the Democrats' favorite new pandering device. And you thought Rock the Vote and AARP were an odd couple. Now the King of Kings, our Lord and Savior, the Messiah, has joined the anti-Social Security reform coalition? We must have missed that memo.