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Always Winter, Never Christmas - Catholic feast days are almost always depressing. They generally celebrate the early death, torture, persecution, by way of some pretty gruesome tactics and pretty awful people. They aren't really all that happy, Christmas included. As far as special occasions go,... ( 14:53 | 1 Comments )

It's A Holiday Cotillion - Fashionably late the ladies of The Cotillion are happy to invite you to our holiday block party. The first stop is at sisu where Sissy presents A Microcosm Of America At Its Best. "We often talk about how our policies... ( 23:25 | 0 Comments )

Leading Up To A Cotillion Christmas - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and the Cotillion ladies are busy preparing. Cleaning and decorating, cookies to bake and dinners to cook, along with seemingly endless shopping. Gifts to wrap...oh, don't even remind me of the... ( 20:12 | 1 Comments )

December 7, 1941 - National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor--history, maps. "A date which will live in infamy" Photo of the Arizona Memorial in the extended entry... ( 10:54 | 0 Comments )
Hurricane Victims Continue to Cry Racism - Forgive this rant a bit. It never ceases to amaze me that when faced with a crisis, some people can do nothing but point fingers. As you may be aware, Congress is holding hearings to determine what went wrong during... ( 10:05 | 5 Comments )

FALLACI! "You are Warriors" - "I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.” - Oriana FallaciI went to see Oriana Fallaci this evening in what will most likely be her last speech. She is dying from cancer. No photos allowed. And while she could... ( 04:17 | 2 Comments )
The 2005 Weblog Awards - Finalists From The Cotillion - Best New Blog Merri Musings Atlas Shrugs Common Sense Runs Wild Soldier's Angel Holly Aho Best Group Blog *The Cotillion* Best Conservative Blog The Anchoress Best Culture/Gossip Blog Knowledge Is Power Best Canadian Blog A North American Patriot Best European... ( 00:14 | 0 Comments )

Enough Bowdlerization to go around - "Until then we'll have to muddle through, somehow" would have been a lot less festive than "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough" as the message in our Christmas cards, but we've just learned [You should have known. --ed]... ( 18:47 | 0 Comments )
Vote and Tell others to do the same! - As many of you may have noticed, some of us Cotillion ladies have been selected as finalists at Weblog Awards. Check it out : http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_group_blog.php http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_5011000_blogs.php http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_european_blog_nonuk.php And so on!... ( 18:28 | 0 Comments )
Police Work - Not Gun Control - Reduces Crime in Chicago - was an important year for Chicago - Chicago lead the nation in murders that year. ( 18:25 | 0 Comments )
The King of Heaven, born on earth - (This is one entry in the Christmas series I'm doing on my home blog, CatHouse Chat. I invite you to come on over and join with me in daily devotionals for this blessed season!) Infant holy, Infant lowly, for His... ( 12:30 | 0 Comments )

Dissenters will be silenced - I never thought I'd be linking to a story at Rabble, but... Yves Engler, a member of Haiti Action Montreal and a frequent contributor to rabble.ca, is being kept in jail over the weekend after he disrupted a speech by... ( 19:19 | 0 Comments )
Terrorism and the Yemeni Street - The Yemen Times interviewed a random sample of Yemeni people on the topic of terrorism: We met Hosnia Al-Mikhlafi, a mother. She said, ‘How do these people think that they are Muslims while they terrorized innocent people. They killed infants... ( 12:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments )
A demonic deconstruction of hidden menace - The redesign of architect Paul Murdoch's controversial Flight 93 National Memorial "features most of the details of the original" (middle and bottom images above are identical to drawings unveiled last September), "but a round, bowl-shaped area would replace a... ( 10:14 | 0 Comments )
Who's Your King of Hearts? - Time to make nominations for King and Jack of Hearts in Aaron's Deck o' Bloggers! Get over there now and make your nominations before it's too late! Go!... ( 09:08 | 0 Comments )
Charmaine Yoest and Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood - Check out Cotillion sister Charmaine Yoest--she's been a busy woman lately, following the Supreme Court Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood case! Here's Charmaine live-blogging from the Supreme Court. (click to enlarge) That picture of her seizing the microphone (way to go!)... ( 09:02 | 0 Comments )

December 2005