For this week's contribution to Mass Confusion, I'm going back to the Lamb of God from an old favourite: Roger Smith, Michael Howell and the New Commitment's Who Shall Spread the Good News? The rest of this album is here, as it has been for the last five years.
It’s Not What School You Went To, It’s the Kind of Person You Are
In the middle of all the other excitement followed on this blog, last weekend I got to do something completely different: attend my high school class reunion, the first one I had even been to. People were taken aback that I was going to Boca Raton, FL, to do this, but there's no mystery: someone's …
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More on Barack Obama and Huey Long
Evidently great minds think alike, even on the Internet, as The Republic'er also (and independently) made the connection between Barack Obama and Huey Long: We Americans are faced with another Huey Long in the person of Barack Obama. He will pave roads, bring overreaching government programs to the people, and take money from the rich …
Affordable Housing: Henry, It Was a Great Idea, But…
Henry Cisneros gets himself into trouble again: A grandson of Mexican immigrants and a former mayor of this town, Henry G. Cisneros has spent years trying to make the dream of homeownership come true for low-income families. As the Clinton administration's top housing official in the mid-1990s, Mr. Cisneros loosened mortgage restrictions so first-time buyers …
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The Perils of Increasing the Regulation of the Financial World, and a “New” Financial Order: Satanic or Idiotic?
In the wake of the financial meltdown that we are experiencing--and it's not quite over with--there are calls for new regulations on the financial services industry. That's a tempting reaction, but one that needs to be carried out with caution. This piece from the 16 October 2008 edition of the 700 Club is a good …
The Last Debate
Again from Art Rhodes: Overall, the third debate was by far McCain’s best performance. Although he is an awful debater, he was better prepared and seemed to be more confident during last night’s performance. Obama, as always, was cool and collective, even when under some pretty severe fire from McCain. McCain went after Obama on almost …
Barack Obama: Huey Long for a New Century
Certainly sounds that way: The fracas over Obama's tax plan broke out Sunday outside Toledo when Joe Wurzelbacher approached the candidate. Wurzelbacher said he planned to become the owner of a small plumbing business that will take in more than the $250,000 amount at which Obama plans to begin raising tax rates. "Your new tax …
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The Poster Child of Syncretism
There's been a lot of talk about syncretism on MissionalCOG, but what passes for it in the Church of God is nothing compared to this: Bishop Geralyn Wolf of the Diocese of Rhode Island has inhibited the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding for publicly professing her adherence to the Muslim faith. The notice states that the …
The Fastest Way to Solve Problems is to Boot the Dissenters
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori is confident that the crisis in the Episcopal Church is over: The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori told a Columbus Dispatch newspaper reporter that she thinks the worst of the crisis in the denomination is over. She also predicted that openly gay bishops will be elected …
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Why This May Be the Last Election
The Wall Street Journal reminds us why this may be the last meaningful election we have: All this money gives Acorn the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the …
Positive Infinity 