November 29, 2006
Taking A Different Tack
I could have titled this post “Not Staying The Course,” but I like to feel I’m more positive than such a heading would indicate.
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November 20, 2006
Dancing In The Dark
Amid the increasing dishabille of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and no whiff from the Bush administration of a comprehensible strategy for dealing with the brouhaha fermenting of North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear brinkmanship (not to mention India’s or Pakistan’s), our newly minted Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California’s 8th district (San Francisco), is about to introduce viewers at home, and those paying attention abroad, to a new perspective on the threats we face in the world today.
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November 8, 2006
Where We Stand
America may well have woken this morning to, as the ever-annoying David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, “No Tsunami,” but yesterday’s elections returned control of the U.S. House of Representatives to the Democrats, and depending on the outcome of two races that remain undecided, the Democrats will either also control the U.S. Senate, or the upper chamber will be nearly evenly split between them and the Republicans.
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November 2, 2006
The Company We Keep 2.0
Spotlight on Ted (no relation to Merle) Haggard. Founder of what is called today a mega-church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, The New Life Church. Head of the 30 million member National Evangelical Association, a position he abruptly resigned amid allegations to be discussed momentarily.
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