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Yesterday I was watching Fox News and they showed President-elect Obama introducing his choices for secretaries of agriculture (former Iowa governor Vilsack) and interior (Senator Salazar of Colorado).  Senator Salazar was wearing a suit with a western bolo tie, a cowboy hat, and I assume cowboy boots.  I guess he wanted to look the part of [...]

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf has a item on his blog linking to a segment on CNN with Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Msgr. Charles Pope.  The discussion centered on whether women should be allowed to be priests.  Fr. Bourgeois advocates such an action–to the point where he faces ex-communication.  Msgr. Pope–a priest in Washington, who oversees the teaching of [...]

On the front page of today’s Washington Post, the lead article was on the Senate’s rejection of the auto bailout bill.  Next to the article was a section titled “The Players in the Senate” and it showed pictures of Senators Bob Corker (the one who offered an alternative bill), Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid.  What I found [...]

One of the more controversial items in the labor agreements between the Big Three automakers and the U.A.W. is the Job Bank.  Basically, the Big Three pay thousands of workers not to work.  In other industries these unnecessary workers would be laid-off.  If the U.A.W. wants to keep non-productive workers on the payroll why not [...]

You know you are in for a frustrating time when you get to the Metro station and see 100 people standing on the platform.  Today I got to the Cleveland Park Metro station at 8:15 a.m.  I did not get on a train until 8:50 a.m.  During rush hour the trains should run 3 or 4 [...]

There has been a lot of soul-searching by Republicans since the election regarding future economic policy proposals.  Fellow blogger CrankyCon has some thoughts on a recent article by Bill Kristol on this topic.  Republicans looking for a silver lining from the November elections point out the similarities between 1974/1976 elections and the 2006/2008 elections.  In the [...]

My fellow blogger Crankycon has a post on the actions of one Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana.  There must be something in the water in Indiana because besides abetting in criminal activity, Planned Parenthood in the Hoosier state is offering gift certificates for their services.  PP argues it provides a wide variety of medical services [...]

I see today the family of the worker trampled to death at the New York Walmart is suing Walmart.  Since the story was in today’s papers it mean it was announced yesterday–five days after the tragedy.  It also means the family had to have consulted lawyers even earlier then that.  According to the article, funeral arraignments are [...]

The terrorist attack in India last week is another sad entry in the growing list of such actions.  Though you have to hand it to the terrorists–they are equal opportunity killers–they spread their attacks around:  New York/Washington; Madrid; Bali; London; and now Mumbai.  Jay Nordlinger at National Review Online has a good summation of what [...]