Why Are We Talking Torture
Over the past two weeks the U.S. Senate has been conducting the confirmation hearings for Alberto Gonzales and Condi Rice.
Read moreSociety
A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
A Cool Project-Barnabas
Information about an idea I had for a special project. The Palma Ceia United Methodist Church Barnabas Project. A way to use weblogs to pay tribute to people that provided inspiration in our lives.
Read moreThe Grinch Who Stole Thanksgiving (And Christmas)
I guess I’ve gone into another minority, but I still believe that somehow capitalism can survive being closed two days out of each year.
Read moreAn Open Letter to Dr. Bob Jones, III
I am writing you today about a very serious concern of millions of Christians across America who you, in a recent public letter, blatantly insulted and demeaned. As a person claiming to be a leader in the Christian faith, your statement was not, by any explanation, acceptable. I am, of course, speaking of the statement you made in the recent congratulatory letter to George Bush, in which you state, ?You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ.?
Read moreCBS: Not Endorsing Prejudice too "Controversial"
How pathetic is it that not being bigoted is now considered the “controversial” side of the debate?
Read moreIn Other News From Centuries Past
A lawmaker out of Cottondale Alabama is pushing legislation that would ban novels with gay characters from public and university libraries. Rep. Gerald Allen explains: “Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle.”
Read moreTough Criminals Down in Miami Dade
I think it was just last week that Miami-Dade police officers used a taser stun gun to subdue a very dangerous six year old boy. They claimed he was holding a shard of glass and threatening to hurt himself, so I went easy on that one.
Read moreTaxpayers Subsidize Walmart
The state of Georgia found “more than 10,000 children of Wal-Mart employees were in the state’s health program for children at an annual cost of nearly $10 million to taxpayers.”
Read moreINTERESTING SCIENCE
"Welcome aboard Trans America Airlines. Your captain today is Clarence Oveur, and your co-pilot will be a petri dish of
Read moreBishop Ashcroft Continues Constitutional Rollback
Last week Congress began to take up the 9/11 Commission?s recommendations but now we have the details of the proposed legislation and it is much worse than we had expected. The proposed House bill would likely create what amounts to a national identification card, drastically curtail basic fairness in the nation?s immigration system and expand government powers under the PATRIOT Act.
Read moreFrom Role Model to International Bully in Three Short Years
An Article by Frederic Morton: If this rainbow array of hopes is indeed dying now, it is not the terrorists but the recent cumulative acts of the United States itself that are the slayers. To Europeans of nearly every stripe, the statue in New York harbor brandishes not a torch but a tommy gun. Lady Liberty has transmogrified into an ominous colossus. Here is the ultimate Godfather, enforcing with missile and aircraft carrier a protection racket on all seven seas. Here is an America shrugging armored shoulders at the ozone hole, at collateral damage, at its own poor, an America practicing domination in the name of freedom.
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