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Viva Casey Knowles

03/25/2008 by Don

Casey Knowles is the little girl in Hillary Clinton’s scare tactic advertisement designed to foster the politics of divide and conquer. I think this is backfiring on Hillary. Casey Knowles it turns out is no longer a little girl and to make matters worse for Mrs. Clinton, Casey is a Barack Obama supporter. Listen here … Read more

Dumb about war

03/22/2008 by Don

Be sure to check out what Bill Maher has to say from Real Time with Bill Maher. It’s not only entertaining, it’s true.

Eliot has to go?

03/13/2008 by Don

I’m saddened to see that Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York had to resign his office. I don’t know much about the Governor even though I’m a New York resident. There have been lots of scandals it seems in recent years. It seems that public figures are just as fallible as any of us. Too … Read more

The people groan

11/01/2007 by Don

The following prophetic words came from Sojourners today. I get a regular mail from Sojourners and many days like today the quotes really speak to what is going on in my life or in our national political dialog. Today was no exception. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked … Read more

A world turned upside down..

10/28/2007 by Don

This week as I watched California burning and read in the evening paper that in five years 36% of our states will face a water shortage I thought that’s something we ought to be genuinely concerned about.

Colbert for President

10/19/2007 by Don

I called Stephen Colbert with a dare: if he thought it was so easy to be a Times Op-Ed pundit, he should try it. He came right over. I had staged a coup d’moi. read more | digg story It’s been reported that Stephen Colbert is running for President though only in his native South … Read more

No communion for you..

10/04/2007 by Don

The Archbishop of St. Louis has stooped to a new low in threatening Rudy Giuliani with “no communion,” because of his stance on abortion. That really doesn’t strike me as something Jesus would do. Communion for most Christians even nominal ones is a sacramental rite and it was never meant as a reward and or … Read more

Phony pundits

10/03/2007 by Don

There has been a huge outcry the last few days to discipline Rush Limbaugh for exercising his first amendment rights. I’m not a Rush fan, but he does have a right to his opinions. He does not have the right to discredit real soldiers

Gettin deep..

09/30/2007 by Don

There’s an expression in my part of the world, “gettin’ deep” which literally means the baloney is on overload. Today in a story reported on Huffington Post, John McCain says he’d prefer a Christian president since this nation was founded on Christian principles.