One of Santa's elves faces certain danger from Candy Cane and Louie the Lip in " 'Twas the Knife Before Christmas," a murder-mystery dinner theater show playing Dec.

Iron Cage for Nothing (Thursday, December 3)

When I gave away many of my old books a year ago, I kept my college copy of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism .

Contra Max Weber (Wednesday, December 2)

Davide Cantoni reports: Many theories, most famously Max Weber's essay on the 'Protestant ethic,' have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development.

Obama's "Christian" grandmother in Mecca for Hajj (Wednesday, November 25)

Why the deception? And who was behind it? AP? The Obama camp? Someone else? What was its purpose? AP, March 5, 2008: "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said.

Neighbors Briefs (Monday, November 23)

Area schools are invited to send in student of the month lists to The Daily Journal's Neighbors section.

At J-M, one call does it all (Tuesday, November 17)

Parents in Jefferson-Morgan School District will no longer have to listen to the radio or watch television to find out if school is being canceled on days when the weather turns bad.

Video: Miss Staten Island pageant highlights (Sunday, November 15)

Jennifer Scacco, right, Miss Staten Island 2010, gets a kiss from outgoing Miss Staten Island Kimberly Cantoni at the 44th annual Miss Staten Island Pageant.

Meet the new Miss Staten Island, Jennifer Scacco (Saturday, November 14)

Jennifer Scacco, right, Miss Staten Island 2010, gets a kiss from outgoing Miss Staten Island Kimberly Cantoni at the 44th annual Miss Staten Island Pageant.

United Nations says that diversity is bad and fossil fuels are good (Friday, November 13)

In a shocking reversal, the United Nations has come out against New World Order dogma about diversity and global warming.

Flushing (NY) man charged with attempted larceny and forgery (Wednesday, November 11)

In the following press release Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Flushing man has been charged with second-degree attempted grand larceny, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and other charges for allegedly forging the signature of a man whose home had been foreclosed on in an effort to collect ...