Thanks, but no thanks! That’s basically what CNN host and Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria said to the Jewish Anti-defamation League when he returned a first amendment award which he received five years ago. The Jewish civil rights organization was “not … Continue reading →
Continue reading →Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Now, thanks to Newt Gingrinch, that should settle it! Well, except for one thing, if you factor in the faulty equivocation.
Continue reading →A Republican – Tea Party Rally attendant wears her “I love Sarah Palin” button beside the one that says “I love the Constitution.” Republican / Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle says, “We’re at war in this country, for our freedom, … Continue reading →
Continue reading →President Obama’s support of religious freedom, with all rights pertaining thereto, is what you’d expect of a student of the US Constitution. A few days earlier, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented a history of the struggle for … Continue reading →
Continue reading →To hear Republican and Tea Party candidates tell it, the current administration is truly a threat to the Constitution and the wishes of the founding fathers. Yet it seems not to be the wishes of the founding fathers that are … Continue reading →
Continue reading →The Cold War with its threat of nuclear attack. 9/11 and Al Queda. Truly fearful chapters in US History. Yet former Representative Tom Tancredo believes that the greatest threat to our country is at home in the person of … … Continue reading →
Continue reading →In my posts, when relevant, I have not withheld the fact of my Christian faith. Nor have I withheld my observations concerning what I believe to be inappropriate responses by Christian leaders to various issues. The current negative reaction to … Continue reading →
Continue reading →I enjoy my frequent visits to rural Kentucky. Only five hours from my home in Charlotte, NC, I enjoy the openness that the countryside affords. I have family there who in turn have other friends and extended family. Recently I … Continue reading →
Continue reading →In the late 1950’s a Southern reporter was trying to come to terms with the alleged racism of the segregated south. He had interviewed city officials — white, of course — only to be told that “our nigruhs” were quite … Continue reading →
Continue reading →I found an oasis of conscience in the desert of hypocrisy recently as I viewed the YouTube videos of the news coverage of the Shirley Sherrod fiasco. Of particular interest was the handling of the now infamous video purportedly offering … Continue reading →
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