There are well-meaning good-hearted people on both sides of the Ground Zero mosque issue. I believe that, I really do. It’s just hard right now to see that, what with the way the people are carrying on. If I were Frank Peretti writing This Presence Darkness, I might imagine that demons are dancing,...

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...

I’m the token Republican at BWC. I suspect my presence here is welcome due to some obscure Federal blogging regulation that ensures equal time. I was a mere teen when Ronald Reagan still possesses those rock star qualities. That was before he “couldn’t precisely recollect.” I...

Do any Democrats pay taxes anymore? Sweet Moses, what a joke. I hate to mimic conservative talk radio here, but it doesn’t seem like anyone is answering: why should we appoint a man who failed to pay his taxes to the head of the IRS? I mean, I guess President Obama is standing by his guys, and...

The basic message of the first video below is okay – pledging oneself to acts of service that benefit our local and extended communities. But every time a video like this gets made I have to spend an extra half hour explaining to die-hard Republican relatives that I voted for Obama because I thought...

Since all the world’s problems are going to be solved within a couple hours, I think it’s okay if we all go back to wasting time on the internet. The devilish goons over at Paste Magazine have come up with a fantastic site where you can turn your own photos into Obama-style posters. As if...

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....