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Straight Talk in a Crooked World
Earlier this week, one of my fellow writers on the Time’s Up crime victims advocacy blog, Anglican priest Charles Moncrief, posted a touching tribute to our veterans. While I read the article, I didn’t watch the video he posted along with it at the time. http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/honoring-veterans-based-on-john-13.html
Read More I Fought For YouOf the nearly five million American veterans who served in World War I, only one remains, 109 year-old Frank Buckles of Virginia. Buckles says he owes it to his fellow soldiers to make a national World War I memorial a reality http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=256443&format=html.
Read More The Last Veteran(Originally published November 3rd, 2010… and I can’t say the 2011 election has been any better.) Cue the sinister “investigative reporting” synthesizer note… The TV screen oozes forth in black and white, centered on a tilted photograph of a disheveled man in an “I’m with Stupid” t-shirt who looks like he just had his eyes […]
Read More Join Me in Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards FreedomGASP!! Ohhhh! Did a media figure actually practice their constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech? Did they step outside of their scripted, sterile, cardboard environment and show some personality? I am simply disgusted that National Public Radio fired Juan Williams. He expressed an honest opinion on the Fox News channel that surely didn’t sit […]
Read More Who’s Fair and Balanced Now?This week it was reported that Seattle Weekly cartoonist Molly Norris has been forced to change her identity and relocate. Why? Because she drew a cartoon depicting Mohammed as various objects, which turned into a Facebook phenomenon called “Everybody Draw Mohammed” day. Mohammed isn’t supposed to be drawn, so this outraged many in the Muslim […]
Read More Love It or Hate It, This is AmericaLast Friday was an interesting day. The day began with a minor medical scare. Then I got whacked in the back of the head with a toy football. Later on I got to play with a new Blue Heeler puppy. I also met John Wallace. The name Wallace may conjure up the image of a […]
Read More Shop 26Whether we agree with our country’s wars or not, we can still all show our appreciation for the sacrifices of men and women who have given up so much—even their lives—so that the rest of us can be free. We Americans are able to speak openly, associate freely, and express our individual opinions because of […]
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