When Kanye West was a kid his mother must've given him a big, shiny trophy for taking a piss, a collection of medals for finishing dinner and eight million gold stars for brushing his teeth.Today he records a few albums, dates a stripper, wears questionable eye wear and thinks... ...read full story...

Life in foster care is the fate of far too many foster children in this country, and the Republicans in the Tennessee legislature are determined to sentence even more foster children to that sentence. Why? It’s fear of the gay that moves them, surely. Here’s a bit from the article in the...

"Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrinam non sustinebunt, sed ad sua desideria coacervabunt sibi magistros, prurientes auribus. Et a veritate quidem auditum avertent, ad fabulas autem convertentur." (2 Timothy 4: 3-4). And that time is now. New Age philosophies are spreading throughout the Church. Hom...

The Republicans simply can’t get enough of the whackjobbery, can they? This weekend is the annual CPAC conference at the Omni Shoreham in Washington. They’ve got the usual suspects speaking, and last night the big stars were John Bolton and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. Bolton joke...

even if it's true...? it's stunning to me how the u.s. can make sweeping pronouncements about other countries but won't bother to look in the mirror... from al jazeera... The Argentinian government has angrily criticised Leon Panetta, the new director of the CIA, for warning of a potential economic ...

In last fall’s election campaign the GOP used an ad in Ohio that ripped off the Jackson Browne golden oldie, “Running on Empty.” The point they were trying to get across was that the Obama campaign energy policy would leave us without gas, or something like that. Jackson Browne was...

Barack Obama made a well-received speech to Congress last night. He appealed directly to the American people, whether they are hurt directly by the recession or know people who are. And Obama was positive about the character of the American people and how that character, with leadership by governmen...

A talented broadcast journalist of the utmost integrity? The furore caused by Jeni Barnett’s irresponsible and ill-educated foray into matters medical has still not died down. Indeed, due to Jonathan Richards' inability to deal with the problem, it is now being considered at the highest level. Ear...

I just can’t get over this New York Times poll this morning. Obama is getting the backing of the people of America in far higher numbers than just those who voted for him, and by far they are optimistic about the stimulus. How do they favor the Repubs and their “do nothing” and ...

Delaware County, Pa has been reliably Republican for a long time, but that’s been shifting of late. Curt Weldon fell to a scandal and Joe Sestak, and the county even elected a Democrat to the PA House in Bryan Lentz. But the Republicans have still held a tight grip on local offices, such as th...