Death By Jobs
This week the president is scheduled to give a (supposedly) important speech on his jobs plan. He is being looked to for wisdom and help in turning around the high unemployment in the nation. Now, I have to say, I …
Category: Current Events
Value of Gold
I have been thinking about gold this morning. Sometimes we dream about gold, you know, Scrooge McDuck reveling in his warehouse full of gold coins only with our faces instead of his. However, dreaming is dreaming but how often do …
Political Incrementalism
Current politics has caused me to once again consider political incrementalism. Here I am typing this only four days before the supposed decision day of August 2nd when the US government will in theory run out of money to pay …
Casey Anthony Justice
This week’s Casey Anthony trial was all the news. Most talking heads were consumed with the story. Every speculation got its air (or maybe it was err, as we shall see). A young unmarried mother, Casey Anthony, was charged with having murdered her …
Debt Ceiling Woes
The arguing and posturing are in full prominence in Washington as our legal representatives from both parties plot for advantage over the debt ceiling vote. The public wants the red ink to slow down. This would be the same public …
Don’t Vote for a Weiner
Here we are a couple of weeks into the Anthony Weiner quasi – not quite a scandal. The media has had high hopes for a juicy story while at the same time rarely identifying the congressman’s political party (Democratic). The …
Calamity in the City
The mounting calamities around the nation continue to give us pause to consider exactly, how does God work through the wind and waves? The worst tornado in 60 years has just blown through Joplin, Missouri. Floods are inundating everything that …
Natural Born Citizens
With the latest questions about whether all of the prospective Republican candidates need be natureal born or not it seems to me that the question takes on a different character. Now it is traveling away from being a question used …
Dark Matters
As I write this the space shuttle Endeavor is on its last mission. It is being used to haul 14,000 pounds of gear to the International Space Station. Along with that load of stuff is an interesting contraption called the …
The Judgments of God
Here we are in mid-May, 2011 having broken all records for the costliest floods and costliest tornado damage on record for this nation in all our history for this time of year. The season is still early. A yearly record …