I'm not exactly sure how old this is; I think it goes back to 1998. A Good Bargain It took a long time for my schedule to open up but at last I was able to attend my first Promise Keepers stadium event (arena event, to be exact.) During the lunch break our group decided …
Bob Corker is a Great Presidential Candidate. Except…
Zach Wamp speaks of Tennessee's junior Senator in glowing terms: Rep. Zach Wamp told members of the Chattanooga Pachyderm Club on Monday that Sen. Bob Corker is gaining clout around the country as a potential presidential candidate. He noted that Sen. Corker was chosen to deliver Friday night's Silver Elephant Banquet speech at the convention …
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Filling the Coming Power Vacuum in Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is already on the case: Many of its leaders, including prime ministers Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Maliki, were close to Iran, while Hakim had spent his long exile during the Saddam Hussein years in Tehran. By refusing to join the UIA, Maliki is sending a strong message to the Iraqi people, …
The Cynical Explanation as to Why Notre Dame is Giving Barack Obama an Honourary Doctorate, and why the Vatican Goes With the Flow
Now that the day has arrived for Barack Obama to give his speech and receive his honourary doctorate at Notre Dame, it's time to clear the ideological blather out (like this) of the way and get to some reasonable explanation as to why such a wide swath of American Catholicism--with the tacit approval of the …
Dear Graduate
Originally written in 2005. Dear Graduate, (name withheld because the Internet is a crazy place) My wife and I were well pleased with your achievement of valedictorian. She was hoping that you, her former piano student, would achieve this. But the piece in the paper (sorry, surfers, paid subscription required) was a surprise. I'll get …
Robin Smith Resigns as Tennessee Republican State Party Chairman: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Got this in the email this morning: May 16, 2009 Dear Friends, Earlier today in a conference call with members of the State Executive Committee, I announced my intention to step down as Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party effective May 30, 2009. As I turn the helm of our great party over to new …
Sam Ervin’s Speech on Ex Parte Milligan
In view of the back and forth on the Guantanamo detainees and the legal status of same, an interesting audio document is Sen. Sam Ervin's (D-NC, right) monlogue--and back and forth with Watergate witness John Erlichmann and his counsel--during the Watergate hearings. The monologue is about 30 minutes into the audio clip. The date was …
Fruit That Lasts
"It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name." (John 15:16) This verse deals with two important issues -- the nature of Jesus' calling and the nature …
Rowan Williams, Golf, Miserable and Glorious Failure at the ACC and Elsewhere
In his own wrap of the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams made a statement that, for me, stuck out like a sore thumb: Drawing upon a phrase coined by the English Roman Catholic nun, Maria Boulding, Dr Williams stated “the alternatives for Christians were not success or failure, but glorious failure and …
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The Sad Lessons of Carrie Prejean
One of the sorrier sagas that has unfolded before us is the matter of Carrie Prejean's loss of the Miss USA crown because she didn't give a "correct" answer to Perez Hilton's question about gay marriage. Losing the crown wasn't enough, evidently; the abuse she's endured since then has been ferocious. Unfortunately she's compounded the …
Positive Infinity 