Yikes ( Read more... )

Although I could not vote for the man, and I find almost all of his policies abhorrent, I am nevertheless proud of America's choice ( Read more... )

I voted. I'll be claiming my free Starbucks coffee later in the day.

Raised in a home where voting was seen as an amazing privilege and a patriotic duty, where non-voters were scorned and lectured, you'd think I would have been more enthusiastic this morning.

We had paper ballots. Then, we fed them through a machine which scanned the votes, ( Read more... )

Crazy, I know.  Naomi Wolf starts tooting the Libertarian horn thanks to all the research she put into her latest book, Give Me Liberty and the interview she had with Lew Rockwell for his daily podcast.

It was supposed to be a 15 minute interview with him asking her questions.  It turned into an hour long dialogue, with the most fascinating ( Read more... )

These two things made my morning cheerier:

The first is that Obama read Michael Pollan's Letter to the President-Elect. I won't be able to vote for Obama (or McCain, for that matter) in good conscience, but it does seem likely that he's going to be our next President. The thought of having a President in office who reads Michael Pollan fills me ( Read more... )

I've always liked John Stossel's special reports, and a few days ago ABC aired his magnum opus. Seriously. This is funny, good, and important.

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Click here to watch this file on Youtube, along with the other 5 parts of the program.

It takes one to know one...

"Bush is to the left of me now," Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. "Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks."
I think we're seeing the beginning of a new financial world order.  It won't take too long for the current global economic crisis to turn ( Read more... )

For the first time in U.S. military history since the passage of the Insurrection Act in 1807 and the Posse Comitatus Act in 1878, the U.S. military is being deployed on a permanent active duty mission within the borders of the United States of America. Their mission? To help with civil unrest and crowd control.

Did you know there was massive ( Read more... )

A friend's dad has weeks to live.

Last night, we talked with Matt & Valerie (who are soon to be married) about death and dying and the martyrdom of marriage.

Today, I read Fr. Stephen's Blog and found this gem about political discourse in light of the Resurrection:

But when you have come to make a pilgrimage to Christ ranting is simply not on the ( Read more... )

A woman with more executive leadership experience than Obama, Biden, and McCain put together, Palin is not the inexperienced politician that some want to paint her as. While Obama has always talked about "change" but accomplished very little of it (none that I can discern), Palin has actually reformed two governments, rescued them from financial ( Read more... )