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People Like Us

PEOPLE LIKE US

This may be a fairly unpopular post, because it is provocative. I might have called it “Reimagining Heaven.” And actually, there is not very much material on Heaven in the Bible. Certainly not enough for the theme of a week-long revival or to fill the hundreds of pages of a book. I was invited to read a book that was popular in the Evangelical crowd a decade ago. The author suggested that our pets would join us in heaven when...

Winds of Change

WINDS OF CHANGE

The last fourteen months since Hamas attacked Israel have fundamentally reshaped the Mideast in ways that very few observers might have guessed.  Today, the terrorist group Hamas is leaderless, as is the terrorist group Hezbollah.  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who so ruthlessly murdered men, women and children (25,857 children, and 15,761 women as of March 2022) in the Syrian Civil War has fled to Russia to save his own life.  Islamic terrorists in Yemen are reeling under the blows of American, British and Israeli attacks in defense...

Trainwreck waiting to happen?

TRAINWRECK WAITING TO HAPPEN?

I have never understood the notion of taking ordinary citizens and placing them in highly technological jobs, or to represent the U.S. to the world, or to account for billions of dollars in taxpayers fund when they have trouble balancing their personal checkbook, or to make effective, executive decisions on issues they may never have heard of before. The only qualification is that they are absolutely, unquestionably loyal to one man and that they be willing to break the rules...

Send in the clowns

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

What an administration this will be!  In the past, most Democrat and Republican President-elects have chosen department heads on the basis of competency and experience.  Occasionally, department heads are chosen based primarily on ideology.  This President-elect is choosing them on the basis of idiocy in some instances. What a circus. Time to send in the clowns. Let’s see who we have.  We have Matthew Gaetz who, until yesterday when he resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, was facing Congressional ethic charges from...

I'm Not Voting

I’M NOT VOTING TUESDAY!

I am not voting on Tuesday. I had thought of voting for that Harris lady, but my husband told me that if I wanted to really be patriotic, then I should listen to what he says and bake him some cookies instead of wasting time going to vote.  He says that if 500,000 other women stayed home and did not vote on Tuesday—if they baked cookies for their husbands instead—then the country would be better off.  After all, the way to a patriot’s...

A Pox on Both Your Houses

A POX ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES

Many, many years ago when I was the editorial advisor for my college’s student newspaper, I had the opportunity to interview Mark Perrineau.  He had just played Mercutio in Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Dane’s movie Romeo and Juliet.  Along with another actor from the movie whose name escapes me and with one of my students, we four gentlemen from Verona spent an hour talking.  We spoke in a spacious enclosed porch at a villa about the movie, acting in general, the imminent Hollywood strike...

Have faith in our institutions

HAVE FAITH IN OUR INSTITUTIONS

Only two countries in the modern world have a founding document older than the U.S. Constitution. The oldest is England, if you count the Magna Carta of 1215, and secondly the tiny republic of San Marino (1600), nestled snugly within the Italian peninsula.  Other countries such as the Dominican Republic have had 32 constitutions altogether, and a number of other countries from Ecuador to Thailand have had 20 or more constitutions.  Israel, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia are several of the few...

My take on the CNN interview

MY TAKE ON THE CNN INTERVIEW

So, Deena and I watched the CNN interview last evening with Dana Bash. I decided to add my two cents to the post-game critique as Coach Walz might call it. This is my take on the CNN interview. I consider myself a student of politics. Sixty years ago, I first got interested in politics when Senator Barry Goldwater ran for President. At the time, I was a confused teenager who got mixed up in the John Birch Society (JBS), which...

Conair

CONAIR

The U.S. Marshall’s Service has a fleet of several Boeing 737 aircraft to fly people in legal custody to prison, to another state, or to court or detention centers, wherever official business requires them to fly.  Illegal aliens in custody are also passengers on these aircraft.  The term for this operation is the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), though informally it is known as Conair (for Convict Air.) More than a quarter of a million transfers take place each year.  Conair was also the...

Why I'm voting for Kamala Harris

WHY I’M VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS

Given the choice this year between voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, I have decided to vote for Vice-President Harris, rather than not vote at all or spoil my ballot.  No doubt, some of my evangelical brethren will cast me as an apostate or consign me to the outer darkness.  As it is, they are siding with a narcissist who is a convicted sex offender, whose only association with Scripture seems to be selling Bibles at exorbitant prices to pay for...

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