2017-02-08T22:13:19-07:00

What did you think of President Obama’s Inaugural Address?  How did it compare with the address he gave four years ago? Did any part of it resonate with you? Did it leave you mad, sad, glad or just plain indifferent? One paragraph in particular got my attention: You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our... Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:20-07:00

Never in American history has a president and vice president formed a team like these two. It’s …        Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:21-07:00

Go back in time to August 28, 1963  ….   Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:23-07:00

The weird story of Manti Te’o and the girlfriend who wasn’t gets even weirder. It appears he may have been pranked — which is too mild a word for it — by a serial hoaxer. The man who committed this hoax had evidently piled up at least six other victims besides Te’o. This hoaxer enlisted friends, including his sister, to help him carry on this hoax. Today’s technology makes it easy for people to lie convincingly about themselves, which is... Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:25-07:00

  Vice President Joe Biden kicked off four more years of verbal blundering at the Iowa State Pre-Inauguration Inaugural Ball by telling the crowd, “I am proud to be President of the United States.” Enjoy. Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:28-07:00

This is one of three rallies for marriage that took place in Paris on one day this week. Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:30-07:00

This is a fascinating interview with Jim Caviezel concerning his experiences playing Christ in The Passion. Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:33-07:00

Katrina Fernandez, who blogs at The Crescat, has courage. She also has wit, enormous talent and a great, big, loving heart. I love Katrina’s blog. She has this ability to touch my girl side, the female giggly part of me, and get it rockin’. Yesterday, she touched that other girl side, the one that has given life; the mothering, maternal, deeper than bone totally female part of me. Katrina wrote about her abortion, the experience and the grief afterwards. Good... Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:35-07:00

This famous letter from Martin Luther King, Jr, to Alabama Clergy. This letter was an answer to a letter sent to Dr King by these clergy. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my... Read more

2017-02-08T22:13:38-07:00

This letter from Alabama Clergymen was sent to Martin Luther King, Jr while he was in jail in Birmingham, Al. It prompted the famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Statement by Alabama Clergymen 12 April 1963  We the undersigned clergymen are among those who, in January, issued “An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense,” in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. We expressed understanding that honest convictions in racial matters could properly be pursued in the courts, but urged... Read more

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