The following is a cross-post from my second blog ( Feeding the Trolls ). I feel strongly about this issue, and I hope that, upon reading my remarks, you will, too. The United States of America, my home country, is stepping into a new era regarding the availability of health care. Because…
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A Sputnik Moment
Tonight I heard my President call for America to respond to a "Sputnik moment." It was, in a sense, a call to arms. I liked this call. In October of 1957, Russian scientists launched a beach ball-sized satellite into space in a move that rocked this country and kicked off…
Ctrl+Alt+Del: Calling for a Christian Reboot
Cedar Grove Community Church is hosting a new Worship Bible Study at 6pm on Sunday nights. One of the discussions trailed over onto Facebook. The prompt was as follows: I'd like to continue a discussion that we started at our Bible Study on Sunday night... here's the question: describe what…
Apologies
Apologies are tricky. When we were little, my brothers and I committed an endless stream of wrongs against one another. Once we'd been caught by the folks, each of us was directed to apologize to the victim of the teasing, the ostracizing, the exclusion, the punching, the ditching, or the…
November 11
Today we honor our veterans, both dead and living, who have served in every war or conflict in which the United States has held a stake. Both of my grandfathers and both of my grandfathers-in-law served in WWII. My brothers, Ted and Curtis, are each in service to our military…
Bonds of Affection
November 4, 2008 dawned to the sound of my shower and Jon's groaning at the prospect of being out of bed before 7:00 am. Our polling place is the elementary school across the street, so we pulled into the parking lot moments after the doors opened. Already, there was…
In Remembrance of Infamy
Seven years ago, two black boxes of souls standing sentinel over New York City were felled by cowards in commandeered planes, and America staggered. Go ahead and scream and holler for an end to this war... Please, run out in the streets and chant and pump your fists in the…
The Audacity of Informed Voting
Two men are vying for the most powerful political office in the world. On the Left is Barack Obama, the young, African American Junior Senator from Illinois, an articulate orator, a Harvard graduate. On the Right is John McCain, the aged war hero, four-term Arizona senator and former congressman, Naval…