One day while growing up in Palm Beach, I stopped to visit my grandmother. As I’ve documented numerous times on this blog, I frequently found myself on the wrong end of Palm Beach’s brutal social system (well, the young part of it, at least.) In response to my complaints about the place, she, in some …
The China Currency Bill is Not the Answer
John Boehner is correct about the nature of this, which is about to clear the Senate: Defying Chinese anger and White House warnings, the US Senate was set Tuesday to approve legislation to punish China for alleged currency manipulation widely blamed here for costing American jobs... The Democratic-held Senate was due to approve the measure …
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Belt Your Old Man in the Mouth
The whole "Occupy Wall Street" protest movement--and some comments from family who are closer to the event than I--have reminded me of something I heard a while back and have meant to post but haven't. Hopefully timing will be everything and some will find this strange story helpful. My old family business marketed some of …
Choose Life, Choose Death, Choose Surrender
If the pro-life movement has a "theme" or "banner" scripture, it's this one: Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil: That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgements, and …
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Oh, Just Buy a Cup of Joe If You Want to Stimulate the Economy
The coffee place is at it again: Starbucks hopes customers will be willing to pay at least $5 more when they stop in for their morning cup of Joe. Starting Nov. 1, Starbucks will begin collecting donations of $5 or more from customers to stimulate U.S. job growth through its “Jobs for USA” program. The …
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Proroguing Congress: From Unconstitutional to Funny
Well, that's the way it is in North Carolina, at least: "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me …
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Joe Biden Reaches Out to the Rabbis
Yes, he does: Biden told the group of rabbis that he’s had disagreements with President Barack Obama over some of the language that he uses regarding Israel, said Klein, a Democrat who represented Congressional District 22, which includes Palm Beach. “I will defend, down to my last breath that this administration has one of the …
Obama and the Jobs Bill: It's More Than Just Feeding Lambs
NPR picked up on the origin of Barack Obama's appeal "if you love me, you got to help me pass this bill.:" But that doesn't mean there still isn't the occasional moment reminiscent of a Bible story...Here's John 21:15, the New International Version, describing a scene between Jesus and his disciples: When they had finished …
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Pat Robertson Isn't Correct on Divorce and Alzheimers
Not this time: Pat Robertson advised a viewer of yesterday's 700 Club to avoid putting a "guilt trip" on those who want to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer's. During the show's advice segment, a viewer asked Robertson how she should address a friend who was dating another woman "because his wife as he knows her …
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Even Those at the Top Know We Have a Poverty Problem
Well, in Palm Beach, at least: Wander along Worth Avenue, Rodeo Drive or Fifth Avenue and you’d be hard-pressed to even think America has a soaring poverty rate. But it does. Whether high-enders want to acknowledge it or not our poverty rate has been climbing for the past few years, according to the Census Bureau. …
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