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I posted my reac­tion on Face­book to for­mer sena­tor, and White House hope­ful, Rick Santorum’s statement/gaffe — depend­ing on how you look at it — about abor­tion and Obama’s posi­tion on life. You can hear the clip from his inter­view with the Chris­t­ian News Ser­vice below. Well…in case there was any ques­tion whether San­to­rum was attempting […]

It trou­bles me that every elec­tion cycle, but par­tic­u­larly mid-term elec­tions, a dis­ap­point­ingly low per­cent­age of our cit­i­zens actu­ally get out and vote. No mat­ter where you come down on the issues, I encour­age every­one to vote. If you have an iPhone or Android device, Google has devel­oped a mobile site to help you find […]

“There’s a dif­fer­ence between a ther­mo­stat and a ther­mome­ter.” I love it! Check out this great piece by Cor­nel West, recorded on Novem­ber 9, 2009. Pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to some of the issues Dr. West said would con­front Obama, and whether he thought Obama was up to the chal­lenge. West draws a very telling comparison/analogy […]

For years I’ve heard the cry, “we need take back our coun­try!” My ques­tion is sim­ple. “Take it back from whom?”  Implicit in the phras­ing “our coun­try” is a very seri­ous and dis­turb­ing sense of own­er­ship and enti­tle­ment. I’d like to get a def­i­n­i­tion of  exactly who makes up the “our” group. Before you read too much […]

I need to treat this post as a sticky note because I will prob­a­bly come back and post more as I learn more and develop clear thoughts and posi­tions.  Gen­er­ally before I com­ment on some­thing, I like to have as many, if not all, of the facts. I, almost embar­rass­ingly, have to admit that I […]

Yes, I’m talk­ing to you Pres­i­dent Obama. You know, I really appre­ci­ate that Obama is will­ing to lis­ten to dif­fer­ent points of view to find  solu­tions to prob­lems, but — and I may be alone on this one — Obama needs to stop try­ing to pacify every nook and cranny of var­i­ous polit­i­cal cir­cles and push […]