A follow-up on the Green Bay, Wisconsin nativity scene story from Sunday — last night, someone described as “a white male, 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, weighing between 150 and 170 pounds, and wearing a gray parka-type jacket and gray… Continue Reading
This year’s battleground in the War On Christmas: public displays of nativity scenes. For instance, in a small town in Connecticut, a town had a long tradition of having a Christian nativity scene on the town square (a public park).… Continue Reading
So The Wife and I go to the store today, to buy some stuff. There, we see this week’s Rolling Stone magazine. Holy crap. Led Zeppelin is having a reunion concert? It’s true. Jason Bonham will fill in for his… Continue Reading
This morning, an unidentified gunman entered a missionary training center in Arvada, Colorado, and shot four people. Two died. The gunman fled and was not immediately identified. Later today, an unidentified gunman entered a megachurch in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with… Continue Reading
I don’t usually read the Huffington Post, but today I came across two separate links from separate sources that led back to it, and both were pretty interesting. I mentioned the first one, about a re-brewing political scandal, in the… Continue Reading
I didn’t watch the Republican CNN/YouTube debate last night. But as retold by Rick Moran, it was an awful lot of Democratic activists asking questions to the Republican candidates. Not that Republicans shouldn’t have to answer questions from Democrats, of… Continue Reading
Go ahead. Let the Fish Wrapper get your blood boiling in the morning. Read about some folks who were threatened with a fine to trim their trees, so they did, and then they got fined for trimming their trees. Funny?… Continue Reading
A family sued the Westboro Baptist Church for disrupting the funeral of his son, a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq, and won a significant verdict. I have a very hard time feeling bad for the defendants. The excerable Fred Phelps… Continue Reading
Turns out, the big Agua Dulce fire that threatened so many homes right here in my area was started by a kid playing with matches out in the desert. 38,000 acres reduced to ash, 21 homes lost, and some beloved… Continue Reading
It’s astonishing to me that we’re still arguing about prayer in public schools. I would have thought that this was a resolved issue — schools can neither sponsor religious expression, nor prohibit voluntary religious expression on the part of students… Continue Reading