The Washington Post writes about President Obama’s new Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.  It looks like a diverse group of advisors will be assembled from different religious traditions and politics perspectives.  And  a closer look will be given to money going to religious groups that only hire people of their own faith: Speaking…

Cross Posted at www.faithfuldemocrats.com   Pungent piles of Republican nay-saying to the American jobs and stimulus package are getting so deep in Washington that shovel-ready jobs are needed to shovel it all to the dump. Could this be the Republican job creation package?   The rigid ideological orthodoxy leading Republicans to oppose the jobs bill ignores the pain of…

My post God Damn Wall Street stirred up quite a response.  One reader named T wrote: “It’s those on Wall Street who are saying “God damn to everyone else, I’m making sure I’m taken care of because it’s going to get worse before it gets better.” Don’t underestimate Wall Street. They’re not clueless; they know…

Obama signed legislation expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program today that will provide health care coverage for the 9 million uninsured American children.  A faith based community organization coalition called PICO National Network gets much of the credit for moving beyond partisanship and getting this passed.   This afternoon two clergy members and two families from the PICO Network will…

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