I see many postings on Facebook about American "classic" or more explicitly "muscle" cars of the 1960's and 1970's. It's a mix of photos from the day, photos of other people's restored cars, or in some cases their own children or grandchildren restoring them. Few things will warm a Boomer's heart than more than this …
The Plot to Take Their Shoes Away
A program from--where else--Tennessee: Temple Israel and Unity of the Palm Beaches are collaborating on a project that is soulful — and sole-ful. Rabbi Cookie Lea Olshein of the temple and the Rev. Rhonda K. Liles, senior minister at Unity of the Palm Beaches, will go barefoot Oct. 11, to raise awareness for Soles4Souls, a …
A Fistful of Rials Gets Old Fast
Al-Jazeera takes note of the events across the Gulf: Iranian riot police have clashed with protesters in the capital Tehran over the collapse of the rial, the country's currency, which has lost a third of its value against the dollar in a week. Police on Wednesday reportedly fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators, including currency exchange …
Congo Pulls the Plug on Chuck Murphy and the "AMiA"
Getting out of bed and checking the email must be getting painful for Chuck Murphy these days: The archbishop of the Anglican Church of Congo, the Most Rev. Henri K. Isingoma has sent a formal letter to Canon Kenneth Kearon, General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, saying that the Congo will not grant any canonical …
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Perot Thinks We May be Taken Over. Maybe We Need That.
Ross Perot, the man who messed up the 1992 election, is at it again: “We’re on the edge of the cliff, and we have got to start fixing it now. Otherwise, we’re leaving a disaster to our children’s and our grandchildren’s future,” he said. Wolf spoke with Perot as part of an interview for C-SPAN, …
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The Democrats' Contradictory Wish List
And they certainly have one: “He's got to continue to concentrate on jobs,” Rep. Bill Pascrell said last week as the House was leaving town for a long, pre-election recess. “I'm hoping he'll do immigration reform,” said Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas). “We should get back to an energy policy – one that acknowledges that climate …
Sons Unto Glory: The Harvest is Ripe
(DSG-1) 1976 Coming from Aiken, SC (the state that produced Ark and Southern Joy), this is another one of those albums that pushed 1970's Christian music in a more "rock" direction, a direction many wanted to avoid but none could. And they do it in a magnificent, fun, Southern rock style that's deeply evangelistic to …
Prolonged Detention, and the Way of All Revolutions
Of all people, Rachel Maddow, on of all networks, MSNBC, calls this one-speech volte-face by Barack Obama for what it is: This country is, in many ways, in the course of a long revolution that started with the 1960's. (For a country always in a hurry, we can't even get a revolution resolved in 40-50 …
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Small Business: To Tell the Truth, I Wouldn't Start One
And neither would most people who are already there: Fifty-five percent of small business owners and manufacturers would not have started their businesses in today’s economy, according to a new poll that also reports 69 percent say President Obama’s regulatory policies have hurt their businesses. Much of the blame is heaped on Barack Obama, but …
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Public vs. Private Colleges and Salaries: Of Course You Can't be President, But…
At last, someone compares the investment to the salary received, and... With help from PayScale, a Seattle-based compensation-data company that maintains 35 million salary profiles, we collected median pay figures for two pools of each school’s alums: recent grads (out of school for an average of three years) and midcareer types (an average of 15 …
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