Congress Gives Themselves a Raise

Posted on December 19, 2008. Filed under: Finances, News | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Because they gave away billions… no wait, over a trillion dollars of taxpayer’s money… … because in order to approve %750 billion of it, they had to add $150 billion in pork… … because they pressured banks to lend money to people to buy houses they couldn’t afford… … because the same people like Barney [...]

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Howard Dean on DeLay, Bin Laden

Posted on May 19, 2005. Filed under: Politics | Tags: , , , , , , |

Howard Dean, Dec 19, 2003 on Osama bin Laden: “I’ve resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found,” Dean said. “I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge [...]

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Terry Schiavo: a Poll and an Essay

Posted on April 4, 2005. Filed under: Faith, News | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Remember the polls that said 63% of Americans wanted Terri Schiavo to die? I remember thinking at the time that something was wrong – I recognized that my opinion that our judicial system was killing her wasn’t unanimous, but I couldn’t understand why it was a minority opinion. Others questioned it, too. Turns out there [...]

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