Author Patrick Archbold

Many people have been disgruntled with they perceive to be a weak Republican presidential field. I am one of them. I have been hoping that someone, even someone who has previously said no, might join the race and save it… Continue Reading →

Who killed Rosie Larson? That is the question posed by A&E’s The Killing. How many of you have been watching it? If you haven’t, you don’t know what you are missing. The show is sad, frustrating, slow, and extraordinarily well… Continue Reading →

Wow. This is really amazing. What you see below is not a painting but an undoctored photograph. What you see here are Camel Thorn Trees in Namibia. The orange backdrop is the rising sun reflecting off a huge sand dune…. Continue Reading →

The baby of the family, my sister, just had her first child. Hooray!! Matthew and I are so excited for the newest addition to the family and my Mother’s 20th grandchild. Hooray again! My sister has been around nieces and… Continue Reading →

The study commissioned by the Bishops performed by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City has been all over the news. Any such study, particularly one that relies in many ways on self-reported information (particularly in the… Continue Reading →

Two stories in the news got my attention for different reasons. The first story has Stephen Hawking believing in a myth. See, Mr. Hawking has been told a fairy tale so many times, he has come to actually believe it…. Continue Reading →

Embryonic stem cells cure nothing and cause myriad problems, not the least of which is killing people to extract them. For some time the action has been in the field of adult stem cells, even if regularly ignored by the… Continue Reading →

The Latin Mass is back in the news. On Friday, the Church released the long awaited instruction on the Latin Mass following the ground-breaking issuance of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. There are many fine analyses of the instruction (here… Continue Reading →

It is a common complaint that politicians say one thing during the campaign but do something entirely different when governing. Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana is the Benjamin Button of potential Presidential candidates, he turns the whole thing on its… Continue Reading →

After 25 years of marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have announced that they are separated. I have had many disagreements with Schwarzenegger and a many more with the Kennedy clan, but that is all politics. This is marriage. I… Continue Reading →