The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Award-Winning Reagan

Our 8-year-old daughter Reagan began public school this year as a third-grader, having previously been home-schooled or attended Christian school. Less than a month into the school year, she won the Respectful Student Award which I’m told (by our 22-year-old daughter, now a school teacher herself) is a very impressive achievement. Parents were invited to […]

Happy 50th Anniversary

GALION, Ohio My wife’s parents, Jim and Nancy Bittner, were the guests of honor today at a party commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple with their seven children: Front row (left to right) Rex, Jeff and Jamie; (back row) Erica, Nancy and Jim, Lou Ann, Anna and Brenda. Jim and Nancy have 22 grandchildren […]

Freaks of Nature

Anatoly Strakhov discovered this rare mutant — a baby seal with reddish fur and blue eyes — among a family of seals on Tyuleniy Island, Russia: According to the London Daily Mail, this bizarre creature was rescued after the other seals “took an instant dislike to the ginger pup, leaving it to fend for itself.” […]

VIDEO: Jim and Bob, Possum-Killers

We live up in the woods near South Mountain, east of Hagerstown, Maryland, and my wife has a rooster and some hens in the backyard which provide us with eggs. So I was working here in my basement office at home, a little after midnight, when my 18-year-old son Bob comes running in the door […]

VIDEO: ‘Demographic Winter’

My wife and I have six children, which is three times the national average in the U.S. People often ask, “Are you Catholic?” No, we’re proudly Protestant. Yet one cannot ignore the fact that, almost alone among major Christian denominations, the Catholic Church has a well-developed pro-life, pro-family doctrine as part of its basic belief […]

How to Be the Best Dad Ever

It’s not nearly as hard as you might think. This afternoon a friend asked me to blog about some urgent political news, to which request I replied: “Remind me to talk to you some time when I’m not in a black pit of depression.”

Happy Anniversary, Kennedy and Martin!

Wow, it hardly seems a whole year has gone by since last summer’s big wedding! And since that grand occasion, Kennedy has graduated summa cum laude, and Martin has been accepted to law school in Baltimore. And before you ask: No, no grandchildren yet, although now that Kennedy has been hired to teach in Frederick, […]

Watch It, Cuz!

My cousin, LaGrange (Ga.) News columnist Pepper Ellis Hagebak, is telling tales again: My own favorite family nut is still with us. When we were growing up, he was always into something. He was brilliant and hyper, and for most of his teen and young adult years, he thought he was Rod Stewart. In his […]

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