At the Guardian , Toby Lichtig reveals how he is held hostage by the books he begins : Are you a non-finisher? A literary tease who picks up books on street corners and then discards them on page 45 without so much as a follow-up text? Are your shelves a sea of protruding bookmarks? Alan . . . . Continue Reading »
From the AP : The son of one of Hamas’ founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Mosab Hassan Yousef, dubbed as . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you ever conceived of God as mother? Moses did.Tonight my paternalistic view of God was challenged in the Book of Numbers. Just as a hungry baby turns to his mother, so did the sojourning Israelite.Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has a special gift for opening eyes to biblical texts . . . . Continue Reading »
Even as President Obama throttles down, trying to ram the presidential limo through the public opinion blockade erected by a huge majority of the people, the barricade is growing. A new CNN poll finds that only 25% of those polled want Obamacare to pass. That’s a debacle for a man . . . . Continue Reading »
George Washington prayed here. He attended a thanksgiving service at this elegant Georgian stone chapel, with its soaring steeple and classical portico, on the day of his inauguration at nearby Federal Hall, and he worshipped here during the two years New York served as the nation’s capital. . . . . Continue Reading »
This theoretical victory stuff is always a fun game , Joe. Actually, if you want to do it up right, you could get a majority—the twenty-six smallest states, fifty-two senators—with just 11,010,526 voters, or 3.62 percent of the population. That’s based on the CIA Factbook ‘s . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently the Cargo Cult meme already hit the Web before my last post, via the American Thinker, picked up by the Daily Kos as well.In fact, I first used the term in January 2008 after Obama’s surprise victory in the South Carolina primary:If Reagan offered “voodoo economics”, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of not knowing how squished they are:Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference chose Ron Paul (R.-Texas) as their favorite candidate in the CPAC straw poll. That’s not a vote: it’s a tantrum. Ron Paul is an idiot, on a good day. The vote bespeaks . . . . Continue Reading »
Like the New Guinea primitives who built straw airfields after the departure of American forces to bring “cargo” down from the heavens, Americans wait for the business cycle to turn. They will wait a long time. The Obama administration is administrating the economic equivalent of . . . . Continue Reading »
A sermon by my colleague, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mayes, on this day of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr.Unremarkable MatthiasIn the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dearly Beloved:Matthias is unremarkable. We have his feast on our Evangelical-Lutheran church year calendar simply . . . . Continue Reading »
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