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Obama’s Speech, Identifying our Suffering

  • Posted by Nacho
  • March 19, 2008

If you have not yet seen or heard Senator Obama's speech on race do yourself a favor and watch it. It is a good speech. Timely, quite apropos, transforming of potential weakness into an asset, confronting of real issues, and broadly connecting to various folks. Obama pulls off, albeit with less rhet ...>

Ferraro, Clinton, Obama

  • Posted by Nacho
  • March 12, 2008

Recent comments by Geraldine Ferraro: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” Then, after the expected criticis ...>

Requiem for the Rule of Law

  • Posted by Nacho
  • March 1, 2008

Ok, perhaps not the whole rule of law, but really, this is important news and most likely to go unnoticed by the majority of our fellow citizens. Remember back to your Civics class in elementary school, maybe Junior High? What? You didn't have a Civics class? Join the club. Not many have. But at lea ...>

Demographic Winter Hokum

  • Posted by Nacho
  • February 19, 2008

A recently released documentary called Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family purportedly sounds the alarm that if nothing is done to reverse declining fertility rates our planetary society will reap enormously bad consequences. That characterization, of course, is too broad and too fr ...>

Impeach Bush-Quemada & Cheney!

  • Posted by Nacho
  • February 8, 2008

Ok, breaking the silence here. President Bill Clinton, he of the rosy face, white pompadour, careful parser of words... was dragged through impeachment procedures with the rest of us primarily because he had sexual relations with "that" woman, and lied about it. Definitely not nice. From all accoun ...>

Huckabee’s Theocracy

  • Posted by Nacho
  • January 16, 2008

Oh, the latest from Mr. Huckabee in Michigan:“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it ...>

A War Mentality

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 19, 2007

Dan, over at Faith in Public Life, has a neat short entry "I Declare War on Metaphors" that treats the issue of the supposed war on Christmas. He definitely gets it right when he notes:As culture war watcher Beth mentioned last week, public observance of Christmas in Basra, Iraq, was canceled after ...>

Tony Snow-job’s Rhetoric

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 18, 2007

Here are two comments attributed to former White House press secretary Tony Snow:1) “The average Iranian is more Pro-American than virtually any college faculty in this country.” 2) “...the second war in this country, the war on God.”There are some who would say that you have to treat thi ...>

Above the Fray

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 5, 2007

Let me direct your attention to the following article on the most recent issue of Tricycle Magazine: Above the Fray. It is a good reflection on the challenges associated with being a political actor (in whatever form, but in this case as journalist) and trying to lead a mindful life. As the author ...>

Do You Pray for our Troops?

  • Posted by Nacho
  • October 7, 2007

With all due respect for those of you who are religious believers... this question posed to Rep. Nancy Pelosi strikes me as not just a set-up, but simply misguided as a matter of religion/theology. This kind of political piety has gotten out of control, and Mr. Wallace is not being a journalist so m ...>

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