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Dems remove God from platform. Will God remove Dems from the White House?

September 4, 2012 by

Democrats have removed reference to God from their platform. Does this say more about God, or about Democrats?

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Hilary Rosen will never know the “joy” of changing 10,000 diapers.

April 13, 2012 by

Late Wednesday night, my husband mentioned the attack on Ann Romney for “never working a day in her life,” in other words, for being a “stay-at-home” mom. I was busy breast-feeding my youngest, so I didn’t have time to think much of it at the time. I rolled my eyes and said something like, ‘Oh brother, what next?’ It was morning before I actually watched the clip of Hilary Rosen making her jab at Ann Romney.
Only then did it strike home just how personal Rosen’s attack was on me and my choice to switch careers to raise my children. [cont…]

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“One of these two Mormons could be our next president…the other is Jon Huntsman.”

August 16, 2011 by

In the arena of both “funny” and “perhaps too true,” The Colbert Report had a segment on Mormons. Click on the picture below to watch it. A few highlights to watch for: Mormon = weird…as defined by a guy who looks great, has great hair, and was the weird guy in high school with all […]

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What I’m reading: Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”

September 21, 2010 by

A passage from the book I’m reading, “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers, in the opening pages, that I found evocative in its comparison of Communism and religious faith: [Communism] is not new.  It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith.  Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the […]

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