Tag: attention gather
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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October 19, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Larry Langford is in trouble with the law. The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has been accused of accepting bribes to steer business to friends when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. . . .
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October 26, 2009 05:56 PM EDT --
Fox news is having a field day with the fact that the President of the United States does not want to talk to them. It seems that Mr. Obama got sick of the bias against him and decided to exclude them . . .
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November 02, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Author James Ray has decided that he will not be giving anymore motivational talks or leading any more Spiritual Warrior Seminars until the investigations of the sweat-lodge deaths are complete. . . .
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November 05, 2009 11:33 AM EST --
T.Walter Herbert has written a slim book that gives well-researched and supported explanations of how the United States could have become embroiled in the morass of Iraq and discarded its own values in . . .
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December 01, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
President-elect Obama is hard at work during the waning Bush days. Today, he announced his national security team. His appointments tell a great deal about his vision for American foreign policy in the . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
There was a time when, if someone told me he or she was a Republican, I didn't have an immediate, negative visceral reaction. That time was before the Bush-Cheney regime and a couple of wars ago. After . . .
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October 05, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
The perky lady with the video camera made her way around the tables at the high school reunion. She explained that she was making a YouTube video.
“What would you like to say to the kids in . . .
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March 31, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
As many of you know, I've been absent from these hallowed spaces for several months, since Christmas brought my mother-in-law to our town. Frustration is a favorite motivator for me, and I have used . . .
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November 03, 2008 06:20 PM EST --
Regardless of who wins tomorrow, he has his work cut out for him.
To say that citizens of this country are dissatisfied is an understatement. This election campaign has been the most divisive I have . . .
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November 10, 2008 09:19 AM EST --
In celebration.
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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January 12, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
The honeymoon may already be over in Washington. Last week, Senator Arlen Specter voiced doubts that Eric Holder will make a good Attorney General. Senator Diane Feinstein complained that Leon . . .
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February 23, 2009 06:37 PM EST --
Mary L. Schapiro is the new head of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). She is not new to the agency, having worked there under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. If her first days on the job are . . .
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April 06, 2009 06:17 PM EDT --
Have you ever tried to talk to someone who seemed bright, but the only ideas she could entertain were the ones in her own head? Have you ever tried to talk to someone about politics and found that there . . .
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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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June 08, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) released its opinion in the case of Brent Benjamin today. Benjamin is the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. In 2004, when the story began, . . .
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July 06, 2009 07:18 PM EDT --
Sarah Palin might have been the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party in 2008. Someone in the Republican Party gave her the idea that she was a major player in U.S. politics, and she . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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May 05, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
With consumer prices climbing and the end of the mortgage meltdown nowhere in sight, it becomes tempting to counsel those trapped in predatory home loans to walk away. After all, the creditors who made . . .
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