Collecting My Thoughts

The Emmys Primetime Emmy Awards “inexplicably attracted the franchise's smallest audience in its history. A mere 12.2 million viewers w...

Generous Joe Biden lectures Americans on what Jesus would do "Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people ...

Cooking the books "Shocking exposé hit the Street last week about one of the best-loved, all-American companies: Fannie Mae, the mortg...

I'm just reading my script was her response to my interrupting her "just 4 quick" questions about what did I think about middl...

60,000 greet Palin at The Villages in Florida The big question: Was Murray there or was he still in Mt. Morris playing golf? The Villages, ...

The Politics of Hollywood Chris Matthews observed in an interview this morning that since the beginning of the Cold War in 1947, Hollywood h...

Why the liberals want Obama To assuage their guilt, which unless they have a history of owning slaves, carpet bagging, red lining, organizin...

Wasn't this settled? Eat less, move more, don't smoke. "Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort s...

The non-epidemic of AIDS Just as people who aren't buying into the "we can control the world" pantheism theme of global warmin...

Same old Ellen I thought for once I might agree with Ellen Goodman when the headline read, "Women need to get over Palinitis." No...

Family Religious History Chart At my other, other blog, Church of the Acronym , I wrote about finding the Center for the Study of Religion a...

Peggy Noonan worries What if neither one is up to the latest crisis? "A fearless prediction: My beautiful election enters its dark phas...

Remembering the Depression I don't and most likely neither do you, and it looks like our Administration and the two presidential candid...

The distorted Gospel of liberal Christians A member of a UCC congregation thought I was singling out her branch of Christianity in a previou...

Will Bush follow FDR's bad legacy? It wasn't the crash of 1929 that put this country into a 10 year Depression, it was the governmen...

Charlie Rangel calls Palin disabled. Even for a Democrat under investigation for tax evasion, this is the lowest of low . Keep going guys...

Don't give up your day job Recently I switched my opening page from Dell(?) to Google, after trying RR for awhile. I'm happy with th...

Women paid less than men The line in the Helskinki Compaint Choir that I love is, "women are still paid less than men." Yes, you...

Who can clean up this financial mess? I don't know, and neither does anyone else, but I have two observations. 1) We should stop being...

Is Washington fit for Sarah "Forget the Tina Fey SNL mockery and all the marginalia being written about Sarah Palin now. She did four r...