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UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry has referred to himself as a prophet in an interview with Fox News.(Above---The Prophet Elijah Receives Bread and Water from an Angel by Peter Paul Reubens (1577-1640). I suppose it is possible that Governor Perry lives on bread and water in the $10,000 a month Governor's Mansion he lives in at taxpayer expense.) Here is what Governor Perry said---CAVUTO: You have kind of like the Chris Christie phenomenon: very popular outside your state, still popular but not...

I would love to know more about Mike Huckabee. What I know is troubling enough. I know from the 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination that he's a religious bigot who took this shot at Mitt Romney's Mormonism:"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"Now I know he's a panderer who knows that in able to get the Republican nomination in 2012 he has to play to the nutballs who will vote in...

There is a fight taking place about who should be the next Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.The incumbent Speaker, Republican Joe Straus, was elected two years ago with the help of Democrats in the House.With Republicans gaining many seats in this month's election, some Republicans are calling for someone they feel would a more conservative Speaker to take the office from Mr. Straus.Speaker Straus is Jewish.Not surprisingly given the people involved in this...

I have taught a lot of workshops over the years, and one of the components that I cover when I deliver a workshop on change management is something called the "Emotional Contagion Theory."In the March 2005 issue of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Richard Saavedra and Thomas Sy at California State University at Long Beach examined the effects of a leader's mood on a group. They took 189 volunteer undergraduates, divided them into 63 groups of...

So the good pastor in Gainesville says he doesn't think their actions will directly provoke any problems in the Middle East for our troops if they have a Koran burning party at their little church.  I find it rather ironic that the name of his church is the Dove World Outreach Center. Doves are typically the symbol of peace, right? World outreach implies that they want to reach out and embrace others, right? It seems...

Thanks to Shortstuff for the inspiration! Unlike many of the talking heads who now appear on various "news" shows, Edward R. Murrow was a journalist with integrity who not only fought for free speech, but for TRUTH in journalism as well. He once said at the RTNDA Convention in Chicago in 1958 to a group of fellow journalists: "It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to...

A few thoughts on yesterday's "Restoring Honor" rally turned tent revival meeting in Washington, D.C. Estimates on the crowd size vary greatly, as you might expect. Free Republic said 2 million, Gateway Pundit reported 500,000, CBS News (that evil librul media) put the estimate at between 78,000 and 96,000 based on these aerial photos:For comparison, My DD has a photo of the 1963 March on Washington where the estimated crowd size was 250,000:I see a...

Franklin Graham on President Obama's "problem." Also notice how Mr. Graham dances around the question of whether or not he believes what the president says. Graham launches into a sermon followed by a couple of "ifs" which says to me he doubts that the president is telling the truth. <br />Unlike Mr. Graham, I believe what President Obama says about his Christian faith because, also unlike Mr. Graham, I haven't been appointed judge over who's...

Bryan Fischer is a nut. Capital N, capital U, capital T, NUT. For those not familiar with Mr. Fischer and his work, he's the director of issues analysis for the American White Straight Christian Family No Others Need Apply Association of Racists, Xenophobes, Homophobes, Religious Bigots and Other Assorted Screwballs and Lunatics---American Family Association for short. A couple of examples. Fischer from April of this year:"Bottom line: you want to know who's now running the...