Since I’m preaching through Galatians, one of the topics or themes is justification: how we are in a right relationship with God.  It is the main idea of the letter since they had fallen prey to false teachers with hetero-gospels. I thought it would be a good time to list my recommendations f...

Tuesday Morning News Roundup It appears that Karl Rove will be testifying on Capitol Hill about the nine fired US attorneys. Executive privilege will not cover Mr. Rove anymore. Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, has suggested that Karl Rove will not take the fifth when testifying before Congress, ...

What would a Presidents’ Day1 be without a short little celebration of James Buchanan, the only president from Pennsylvania! Kids in Pennsylvania learn the tale of James Buchanan in fourth grade, the year social studies class covers Pennsylvania, or at least they did when I was in grade school...

What would a Presidents’ Day1 be without a short little celebration of James Buchanan, the only president from Pennsylvania! Kids in Pennsylvania learn the tale of James Buchanan in fourth grade, the year social studies class covers Pennsylvania, or at least they did when I was in grade school...

The Log Cabin Republicans claim Abe Lincoln as their spiritual founder—the first Republican president was born in a log cabin—and may have been gay—or at least bisexual. There is no such enthusiasm to embrace Abe's predecessor, James Buchanan, the only bachelor president, and who was almost ce...

You get a detail wrong and someone’s going to kill you on it. With reasonable confidence I can write about the LAPD and the Riverside Police Dept. because 1) I live in Metro Hell, 2) I used to work in the prosecutor’s office (so when you ask whether cops are tatted and pierced…yes if they’re...

We all often forget in the glorious insanity of writing that if you wish to publish, your writing is a business. That means you have to treat it and your interactions with everyone as a business dealing. These are my “rules� that I’ve developed by watching and talking with other writers as wel...