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Who freaking cares? John Edwards spent $400 on a haircut. And? So? The point about the haircut, of course, is to highlight (so to speak) two things – First, his vanity and second, his hypocrisy. Let’s deal with each. Vanity? Fine. It is that. But are we to somehow believe that his vanity is unique…

There are no words for this save one – holy.

It was supposed to be this way. In the early 1990s, the pro-life community, on the run after electoral and judicial defeats, chose to target partial-birth abortions because they were so heinous (though exceedingly rare), opposed by so many Americans (approximately 70%), and put the pro-choice community on its heels. Who, after all, really wanted…

…from an old friend who teaches fourth graders: “Sadly, my students know every detail, every personal story, have seen every video… there’s no innocence left in childhood.”

Turn it off today. Turn off CNN and Fox and MSNBC. Don’t go surfing for more information. Don’t listen to all the people talking. Don’t let the media do it for you. There is this temptation with our saturated news to immerse yourself in it because immersion feels like action, immersion feels involvement, immersion feels…

I asked a new friend for her thoughts on the horror at Virginia Tech. They are, as usual, worth reading. She is a teacher and this is what she wrote (unedited but with permission): I picture my classroom – 27 little plaid skirted girls, thinking about Friday night, involved in the small and large dramas…

…and the unconscionable and the unknowable have happened at Virginia Tech…and I have no wisdom. Perhaps that is because there is none to be had. All we know are intermittent facts about what happened today. In a year’s time we will look back and see what really happened. Our faith is the same. We know…

…here is a thought. I’ve been listening to my dear friend’s sermons. I encourage, encourage, encourage you to listen to him. But that isn’t the point here. The point here is that I have been listening to just one of his sermons (about pleasing God) for weeks… bit by bit… and over and over. And…

From John Rutherford on Don Imus: The sensible response should have been to use the Imus incident as a springboard for a meaningful discussion on race relations. However, what we got were knee-jerk reactions by people who were quick to take offense and slow to find real solutions to the underlying problems. The consequence of…

From 2008 presidential hopeful Gov. Mike Huckabee ‘‘If you said during Bill Clinton’s tenure that his personal behavior mattered and his character mattered and his activities in office and all of those things, if that mattered, you can’t come along now and say it doesn’t matter to Republicans in 2008… I’m specifically referencing Christian evangelical…
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