Anyone curious about how God wound up on our currency should check out this intriguing nugget in today’s Wall Street Journal, which explains everything. It began with a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase by a Rev. Watkinson: “Dear Sir, One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. I mean the…

While everyone picks apart last night’s GOP debate, and ponders what lies ahead in Iowa, the Wall Street Journal takes a wider view. This is one to clip and hang on your refrigerator. Or, maybe, in your cubicle. Key snippet: Leadership is, at its marrow, the chronicle of judgment calls. These will inevitably write the…

There’s a tiny corner of Catholicism we don’t hear much about, way up near the Arctic Circle. But the website Total Catholic has just corrected that injustice, with a look at Catholic life among the handful of the faithful in Greenland: While more than 80 per cent of its one million square miles is covered…

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this oddity, from St. Louis, but it’s certainly, um, different: Residents along Milton Road could be saved from the view of a hulking cell phone tower if one company has its way. Saved, that is, by a giant cross. Creve Coeur-based CIS Communications has put forth a…

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