Author: pastordan

The Word For the Week

Matthew 21:1-11; 26:14-27:66, Philippians 2:6-11 Today is Palm Sunday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem as crowds lined the streets, tossing palm fronds before Jesus and giving a royal...

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Deficit Games

Forward notices some Republican sleight-of-hand: Congress just started work on the 2006 federal budget, and the sound you hear coming from Washington is the other shoe dropping. The first shoe was the large tax cuts Congress and...

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What’s in a name?

Obviously, I don’t want to make light of elder abuse, but this article from the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News caught my eye: Care home figure had criminal record One of four people charged with neglecting and abusing...

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You Mean Lisa?

In the Simpsons’ episode “Viva Ned Flanders”, Ned watches Homer cycle through one of his typically frontal-lobe challenged days, which leads to this exchange: Ned: How do you do it, Homer? How do you silence...

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From Lou Sheldon

Activist “Republican” Judge Says CA Marriage Law Unconstitutional: San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer, described in the press as a Catholic and Republican, ruled on March 14 that California’s...

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