Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
Happy Halloween
Unfortunately, Delaware is in the news again and just in time for America’s second-most popular holiday.
In Frederica, Delaware last Wednesday, the dead body of a woman who apparently hanged herself was ignored by passing motorists for twelve hours because they thought it was a Halloween display.
Let me just say that this kind of thing almost [...]
No Comments » - Posted in holidays by ME
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Options for Christian Evangelicals
Ronald Reagan started his political life as a New Deal democrat. In fact, he’s the only American president to ever serve as the head of a labor union: the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). When asked why he left the Democratic Party he said, “I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.”
Many of my [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in politics, religion by ME
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Libby Indictment
I was going to wait until tomorrow morning to blog this but I have a feeling that it’s the only thing that people are talking about through the weekend.
Vice-president Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was indicted today in the CIA leak case and he has resigned his office. The specific charges are [...]
13 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, crime, politics by ME
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Delaware: The Worker’s Paradise
My home state of Delaware doesn’t get in the news very often so pardon me if I brag a little.
Delaware has a lot more going for it than most people realize — it’s on the ocean, has no sales tax, and it’s just close enough to Philadelphia for you to get a decent cheese steak. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Delaware, workers by ME
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?
This morning, Harriet Miers asked the president to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court.
The president has accepted and will now begin the search for a new nominee to replace justice Sandra Day O’Conner.
The speculation in Washington will now turn to whether she was asked by the administration to withdraw her nomination or did it [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in George Bush, Harriet Miers by ME
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Rosa Parks
I would be delinquent if I did not express my condolences to the Rosa Parks family on her passing this past Monday.
Mrs. Parks has been described as the “mother of the American civil rights movement” but she never considered herself a hero. She eventually did become a hero and icon to the millions Americans who [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Rosa Parks, civil rights by ME
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
2,000 Dead
On Tuesday, the Department of Defense announced that Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, has become the 2,000th American serviceman to die in Iraq.
My thoughts and prayers are with Sgt. Alexander’s family and with all of the families who have lost loved ones in service to America in Iraq and elsewhere.
Out [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Iraq by ME
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Harding Democrats - “Against the Grain”
A recent article in the Daily Citizen describes the efforts on the Harding campus to once again organize student Democrats into a campus organization. It’s an uphill battle; this is probably one of the least Democrat-friendly campuses in America.
Traditionally, it’s hard to get students interested.
Maybe students here don’t want to be in the College Democrats [...]
36 Comments » - Posted in Democrats, college by ME
Monday, October 24th, 2005
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Every week, it seems as if this is what is happening in the US war on terrorism — for every piece of good news that comes out of Iraq or Afghanistan there are at least two others that overshadow it.Of course the US “war on terrorism” is just a metaphor — you can’t make war [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq by ME
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
Lamb & Lynx Über Alles
Unless your taste in music lends itself to white supremacist folk music performed by teenage German-American twin girls then you have probably never heard of the thirteen year-old singing sensations Lamb and Lynx Gaede, of Bakersfield, California.
Lamb and Lynx are “Prussian Blue” and are very popular on the white nationalist folk music scene these days. [...]
