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Since it looks like it's going to be a rainy weekend in the Houston area, there should be some entertainment on the TeeVee as an assortment of whiners, complainers, sore losers, and general all-around Obama haters converge on Washington, D.C. for a Saturday demonstration. The Wall Street Journal has an account of 54 people making the 17-hour bus ride from Tallahassee, Florida as an example of what can be expected:"Conservative activists (depicted above) from around...

In my opinion, the most important segments of President Obama's address to Congress on Wednesday came towards the end when he spoke about the letter he received from Ted Kennedy:"He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that "it concerns more than material things." "What we face," he wrote, "is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but...

No one knows what President Obama will propose in his address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, but by reading a few of the tea leaves one word is starting to emerge-- "trigger." And I'm not talking about Roy Rogers' horse. From the New York Times:"With Congressional Republicans standing almost unanimously in opposition to the Democratic approach, the target now for Mr. Obama is primarily a handful of...

It's funny, but most of us thought there would be less anger after the election of Barack Obama. As a group we are angry people. We see it all of the hate speech. We see it in the Tea parties around the country, and we see it among people that are angry that are health care debate has been bought and sold by the insurance industry. As a group we are all hopping mad, but...

Now that September is here and the Congressional recess is about to end, the next few weeks should answer some very important questions about our elected representatives in Washington, not the least of which is, who do they really represent, the people or the corporate interests? According to Brain Beutler at TPMDC the Senate Democrats are on the horns of the proverbial dilemma. Finally realizing that there will be no Republican support for any health...

I got a lot of response to my post on the Christian Left, so I thought I would add to it and throw in some clarification about what I am talking about. My impetus for writing the first go around comes from three different and unique inspirations. The first comes in my personal view of history. All teachers that teach history have their own slant on the subject. My personal slant looks at the five...

Let me talk about something that has been bothering me for some time. Really, there are two simultaneous trends that combine to create this huge problem. The first began in the 1980 presidential campaign when Ronald Reagan tried to reenergize the fundamentalist Christians to get them back into politics. From that, the Christian Coalition got their start and they went from staying out of politics to dominating local politics like school board elections, city council, and...