The Tebow commercial: Why the heated protest? by Richard Land President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Washington Post 02/05/2010 Named one of “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America” by Time, Land has worked as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, and public policymaker. Q: The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family is sponsoring a […]
President Obama spoke at the National Prayer breakfast today. It is a production of the Family, the people at C-Street, and one could make a case that he should’ve skipped it. Crew did, in fact, make that case. But he did go, and he did speak. It was a gentler version of what he said […]
Instead of wasting time debating dinosaur issues like DADT and trying to return America to the joyous days of Joe McCarthy, our legislators could be thinking about things like this from the LA Times – problems that matter. Click the link below for their video report… LA Homeboys in South Alabama…
In the Senate, Senator Saxby Chambliss said," The armed forces must maintain personnel policies that excludes persons whose presence in the armed forces would create an unacceptable risk to the armed forces high standards, the morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion." On Chris Matthews, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council said, "Because […]
Colin Powell now says gays should be able to serve openly in military Washington Post By Karen DeYoung February 4, 2010 Retired Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, whose opposition to allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military helped lead to adoption of the "don’t ask, don’t tell" legislation 17 years ago, […]
Coming Friday, the monthly unemployment figures for January… As much as we talk about the causes for this recession, or the ways we might get out of it, it’s hard to look at this graph without wondering if there isn’t something about it that evades our understanding – like there’s something out there that says, […]
If you’ve ever donated money to a Liberal Cause, you get a lot of email asking you for money, or asking you to sign a petition, or asking you to write your Senator. That last one has been hard for me. For a long time, I did it. Months later, I’d get a position paper, […]
Long ago [in the late 1970’s I believe] I was asked to review the records of a case from our State Prison system. An inmate in her mid-twenties had been put in solitary confinement in an out-building made of tin. It was mid-summer and she had died from a heat stroke. I’d already read about […]
The Chilcot Inquiry reminds me that we had a legal process to get to Iraq, such as it was. Some time back, I summarized the Office of Legal Counsel Legal Memos from 2001-2003 [link]. If you look them over, there are a number that are still secret [in red]. The public ones are uncolored. And […]