After the dust settled, after three out of the top five college football teams were upset, my (class of ’73) Oklahoma Sooners are ranked number one! And the Milwaukee Brewers, after a nail-biting victory over the Cubs and a nail-biting Mets defeat from the Marlins,
Thanks for the suggestions for books of light reading. Quite a few of them I have already read, but more of them were new. I will now go into Barnes & Noble with a shopping list!
So who do you think won the debate? I think the Kennedy/Nixon syndrome has kicked in. Obama just comes across better, setting aside content, as the American public does.
I went into a Barnes & Nobles recently and found no book that I wanted to read! Maybe you could help me. I’m not looking for serious, interesting, or edifying books. I have plenty of those. What I need is something light, something suited for
Frank J. Fleming offers A Modest Proposal for Training Future Presidents: If God got fed up with us — and who would blame Him — and stepped down, would we want an extensive, well-thought-out process for picking a successor? Would we want to make sure
The summit presided over by President Bush–attended by congressional leaders, John McCain, and Barack Obama–degenerated into a shouting match, according to reporters. The plan to spend $700 billion to purchase bad securities is losing support, but House conservatives have put forward a plan for the
While the mega-banks are floundering, your little local bank is thriving. SeeSmaller Banks Thrive Out of the Fray of Crisis – washingtonpost.com. If you need a loan, go there.
Six Virginia state troopers who serve as chaplains have resigned in light of a policy that would forbid them when praying publicly to pray in the name of Jesus or even so much as to mention His name. Another example of forced ecumenism, as syncretism
What do you think of McCain’s gestureto suspend his campaign? Both presidential candidates do have day jobs they should not neglect. They are both Senators. It is surely appropriate that they leave the campaign trail to come back to Washington to thrash out such an
At the MTV music awards, one of the hosts, British comedian Russell Brand, amused the audience by ridiculing Promise Rings, which many young people–including some celebrities such as the Jonas Brothers–wear to symbolize their pledge not to have sex before marriage. Later in the show,
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