Jan 15 2009
Matt Corley has an interesting piece in Think Progress about Laura Bush’s insistence that organic food be served in the White House whenever possible. This, in spite of the fact that husband George’s policies on organic farming were, to put it mildly, abysmal. Consider:
– In April 2004, Bush’s USDA issued legally binding guidances allowing the use [...]
Jan 12 2009
Since the times of George Washington it has been the tradition of incoming presidents to hold a prayer service. This year it will be on January 21, the day following President Obama’s inauguration, and be led by Rev. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
As an ordained Disciples of Christ [...]
Dec 11 2008
In a case of truth over parody, it seems the McCain campaign is having a fire sale. Thanks to The Sleuth, Mary Ann Akers, at the Washington Post.
Dec 06 2008
The Honorable Barney Frank (D-Mass) on the need for President-Elect Obama to get more involved right now:
[Obama's] going to have to be more assertive than he’s been. At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time. I’m afraid that overstates the number of [...]
Oct 16 2008
It’s October 16, four months after same sex mariages resumed in California, and, yep, the state still exists, the world has not come to an end, the sun still shines, and all is well.
Sep 14 2008
Back in 1988 when George Bush chose his running mate, I remember someone saying to me, “You know, of all the people of our generation that could could rise to be the cream of the crop, who’d have thought it would be Dan Quayle?”
Oh, how quaint. And now, twenty years later, as John McCain makes his [...]
Sep 09 2008
Juan Cole has a very interesting comparison of Islamic fundamentalists and Sarah Palin in today’s salon.com. The difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Sarah Palin? Lipstick and not much more. Check it out …
Sep 01 2008
The news is now filtering out that Sarah Palin’s 17 year-old daughter is pregnant. At the outset, let me say that I have a great deal of empathy for Bristol Palin, the father of the unborn child and his family. It is by anyone’s measure a less than ideal situation and my prayers go out to those involved.
Having said that, [...]
Aug 16 2008
It’s now been two months since same sex marriages resumed in California. We’re still here …
Jun 24 2008
James Dobson of Focus on the Family is today attacking Barack Obama for a 2006 speech in which Obama addresses the various interpretations of Christianity in the United States. “Even if we did have only Christians in our midst,” Obama stated, “If we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would [...]
