If a picture says a thousand words, what does it say that I asked one of my two United States Senators, Mark Warner (D-VA), if I could have my picture taken with him at a recent AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference? I would have had my picture taken with my other Senator,…
Kathy Griffin, Jokes & a Post-Civil America
NOTE TO READERS (New and Old): What would it take to finally end my self-imposed writing sabbatical at From Law to Grace? Two things. One, a nice conversation this morning with a blogging friend, Hariette Petersen (aka, SelahV), who encouraged me to write again, even if it was just a few paragraphs. The other thing: Kathy…
Silence Is Not Optional: Speaking Out Against Abortion in America!
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer January 22, 1973. A day which shall live in infamy. Not for the loss of life in one single attack like that unleashed by the Japanese at…
Is Ted Cruz Too Unlikable To Be Elected President?
“I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him. . . . If he’s the nominee, we’re going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures.” (here) That was the blunt assessment of Bob Dole, elder statesman of the Republican Party, when summing up Ted Cruz’s Presidential…
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump & the War for the Evangelical Soul
Well, well, well. It should surprise no astute observer of the political scene that Sarah Palin, former Vice Presidential candidate and erstwhile Tea Party gadfly, has endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican Nomination. What continues to baffle is the flirtation of far too many Evangelicals with either Trump or Palin. While Palin certainly knows more…