A few thousand Southern Baptists from all over the United States filed in to the civic center in downtown Indianapolis. We sang hymns together, led by slick looking choir leaders. President Bush addressed us via satellite, which triggered the biggest applause of the whole event. I sat and observed, excited...

January 20, 2009 was a day that I’ll always remember.  We brought up a TV so everyone—from the library patrons to the staff—could watch the inauguration of Barack Obama.  Despite a heated and sometimes vicious election season, we watched the inauguration not as Democrats and Republicans, but...

Basic Training is not pleasant. You go to bed at 10pm if you’re lucky, wake up at 4:30. Every third night, we had fire guard, which meant crawling from bed for two hours in the middle of night and sitting at a desk, waiting for a fire to happen. There was endless berating from drill sergeants....

Food for thought 15 days before the transition of power from George W. Bush (R) to Barack Obama (D): The idea of the current crop of “conservatives” – that government can cater to greed and leave charity to volunteers – is vicious and it can’t work. The “liberal”...

A verdict on the last administration? And a warning to the next: “If the men in power will do these things that are so clearly right and just, they will earn the gratitude of the living and of the unborn. If they will do not them, they will be infamous, and will be unworthy of the respect of any...

“Oh, man, it’s so nice to know everything is okay now! Thank God we’ve elected a President and everything has worked out! What a historical chance to change history…I can’t wait for this country to be set right again now that that disgrace to the Oval Office will be kicked...

Good morning! It’s Election Day! I didn’t exactly follow my suggestion yesterday. Mindy and I were at the polls at 5:45 am Mountain Time, lined up early for what they’re predicting will be an 80-85% voter turnout in Arizona. Our voting precinct is two blocks away, a Methodist church,...

As my friend Ali pointed out, the Burnside Blog’s coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election has certainly leaned in one direction. She claimed posts critical of John McCain outnumbered posts critical of Barack Obama 3 to 1, and that estimate was probably kind. I thought I’d take a moment,...

Gotta love the new strategy out of the McCain camp: insinuating we’ll be attacked if Barack Obama is elected President. Sheesh. Other horrible things that might happen if Barack Obama is elected: - Our country may face an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression! - Osama Bin Laden will...

The handsomely-mustached man you see on the left was Neville Chamberlain. You’re probably familiar with the other guy. Neville Chamberlain is mostly remembered for this line: “This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour....