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Democrats should put on a well-lighted marquee the fact that the Republican-controlled Congress plans to save $50 billion over five years by cutting food stamps, student loans and by slapping new fees on Medicaid recipients and reducing child support enforcement. So much for compassionate conservativism.
Read moreOn this weekend, when we celebrate the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it would be well to remember that King dreamed of something very different for America. King dreamed of an America inspired, if not by love, then at least by justice.
Read moreMartin Toler, Jr. probably knew his life coming to an end. Mr. Toler was trapped in the Sago Mine some two miles beneath the surface of the earth. Most likely, he knew others around him had already died. In his final hours, his thoughts turned to those closest to him, and Toler took the precious little energy he had left, and scribbled a note to his loved ones: ?Tell all ? I [will] see them on the other side?? ?It wasn?t bad, I just went to sleep.? And at the bottom: ?I love you.? Toler touched not only reached out to his family, but his message touched many of us.
Read moreBased on the E. Annie Proulx story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond–by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Read moreThis from Mr. Sun’s blog. Don’t you think God cries whenever this guy gets in front of a microphone?
Read moreThe leader of the Muslim Council of Britain has said religious leaders should join together to voice their opposition to “harmful” civil partnerships and sexual diversity. Sir Iqbal Sacranie told BBC Radio 4’s “PM” program that homosexuality is “not acceptable” and that the United Kingdom’s new civil partnership laws will be detrimental to society, according to media reports.
Read moreGotta love these politicians. They are getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so they figure if they give the cookies away to charity it will make everything all right. Let’s hope the voters aren’t that stupid. I don’t know about you, but trying that excuse with my Mom would have never worked.
Read moreAhhhh, those good family values Southern Baptist Preachers. According to a report on the website of Oklahoma TV station KOCO, an executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a plainclothes policeman outside a hotel.
Read moreYou read it right folks. Joining the ranks of the other children’s characters promoting the ultra-secret homosexual agenda to take over the world is Barbie. So move over Tinky Winky, Lenny the shark, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Read moreWe human beings have created this concept of time. We like to have beginnings and endings, and we American’s seem especially prone to the shorter increments of time. We celebrate almost all of our important holidays annually. We acknowledge birthdays and anniversaries every year. We note seconds (nano-seconds sometimes), hours, days, the months, the annual cycle of the seasons, and especially the years. It?s pretty traditional, as the we close one calendar and open another, to evaluate the year just past, and contemplate the year to come. So as 2005 fades, I?ll follow tradition and offer up my review of 2005.
Read moreAs the old saying goes, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” There is no clearer example of this than the Bu$h Administration’s lack of concern for laws and the Constitution. We have seen, over and over again, in the past how government agencies, authorized to snoop, always overstep. Now we begin to learn that the NSA has been spying on its own people, journalists, and even Congressmen. So, it’s no wonder Bu$h gets his way, Karly Rove probably has a dossier on most members of Congress and the Government.
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