I’ve decided I’m going to record Compline, the Prayer before Sleep, for every day of the week. We’re living through angry, crazed, hate-filled, anxiety-ridden times. Monastics pray Compline either in community or alone, depending upon the house, but it is always prayed, and since it is meant to be prayed in the night, the Office is kept short, so as to be easily memorized (saved on candles). For monastics, once Compline is prayed, the house is in Grand Silence until... Read more
Friend Shana, whose lipstick kiss button you see advertised in the right sidebar, is going all kind of creative-crazy on her little venture. She’s got two new slogans up on all kinds of gear. Our neighbors and I lurve our buttons! Faith, Family, Freedom; Back to Basics, McCain/Palin ’08 Small Town America, Clinging to our guns and religion since 1776 I’m feeling rather fried by all the political fireworks. Glad someone is feeling creative! Read more
When I find myself descending into the madness of political minutiae, I can’t stand myself. Those times are also the times I find myself most tempted to forget about the humanity of the politicians we write about, and that is where I try really hard not to go. It is easy to not lie about candidates, and it is easy to not “call names.” Name-calling is not a habit I’ve gotten into. But when I find myself stewing and my... Read more
Last month I got a steaming hot email from a reader, or someone, excoriating me for suggesting that Barack Obama is lost without the teleprompter. I was told that my assertion was my “parroting” of talk radio (I only listen to talk radio in the car, and not always then), and that I was “hateful” and “full of hate” and so forth. And today, we see that Barack Obama has begun dragging the teleprompter with him to the rodeo because... Read more
The way I understand it, the Infants Born Alive Bill was introduced to the IL Senate and Obama voted against it because he wanted it to have the same language as the Federal Born Alive Bill. When the bill was re-presented containing that clause, Obama voted against it again. So, given the chance, twice, to vote against infanticide, Obama voted for. He also lied about all of this earlier in the campaign, before admitting that he was lying. Obama has... Read more
UPDATE II: 9-18-2008 Pelosi sees no reason why Rangel should step down. Unreal. So, just to keep it all straight, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has fishy, troubling personal finances but he doesn’t have to give up his seat in Congress. His party is not asking him to resign or step down. It looks like Mrs. Pelosi – who famously brought her broom to Congress to “clean it up” – is not even going to ask Rengel to resign his committee... Read more
:::Scroll Down for some very cranky updates::: Reducing everything down to base politics: it’s what we do! James Pethokoukis, at US News and World Report wonders who Wall Street’s woes helps and hurts. I say hurts McCain. Obama is “blaming the government” which is vague and easy for him to do, and also vague and easy for everyone to believe. It’s not the smart answer, but it’s the savvy one, especially if you’ve been in DC for only 4 years... Read more
That question seems anti-intuitive, doesn’t it? Barack Obama has been consistent about nothing, if not his call to “bring the troops home,” for the past two years. And yet, this piece by Amir Taheri accuses Obama of trying – during his “Now I Have Foreign Policy Experience World Tour” in July – to get in the way of troop withdrawals, to hold them off until after the November elections. WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops... Read more
A couple of days ago, John McCain appeared on the always-execrable morning program, The View. During his visit he had to endure Whoopi Goldberg asking him if she – under a McCain presidency – would have to “worry about being a slave again?”, he also had to deal with Joy Behar declaring that McCain was “lying” in campaign ads that suggested Barack Obama voted in favor of legislation to approve sex ed in Kindergarten. Behar didn’t ask him, in mannerly... Read more
I agree with everything Ann Althouse says. Unusable. And I loved it the old way. Awful. I’ll have to find a new product. Anyone have suggestions? Read more
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