Outsourcing American Honor: Things Will Never Get Better For Mohammed Kinani

by Prentice
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Things haven’t gone so well for me the past couple of years. Medical problems, the financial double whammy brought on by stacks of medical bills and the Great Recession, and… well, the same sorts of unfortunate things that have spoiled the party for a lot of Americans. The good news is that things will get [...]

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Sexual Assault In The U.S. Military: Uncle Sam Wants You!

by Mary Ann
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I came across some information yesterday that has left me speechless. I just don’t know what to say about it. I want to say that I’m shocked, but I’m not sure that adequately describes my feeling. Sickened. Maybe that’s a better word. I’ll just lay it out for you and you can have your own [...]

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How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did

by Mary Ann
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Want to know why we’re sending thirty thousand additional troops to Afghanistan? Puzzled how health care reform vaporized before your eyes? Just can’t figure out why we’re still torturing people at Guantanamo and letting banks terrorize consumers with obscene interest rate hikes and foreclosures? Well, it’s all very simple. Nobody got arrested.
That’s it. There’s your [...]

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The Sin Of Lust: Love Amongst The Gongs

by Prentice
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The sin of lust. Now there’s a sin I know something about. To my mind, it is the jewel of all sin. It’s a sin of which I’ve been unquestionably guilty, and on more than one occasion. Fact is, when it comes to lusting I’m an unrepentant repeat offender.
One of my favorite pastimes is looking [...]

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Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism

by Prentice & Mary Ann
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The brownshirts are in high spirits. They’re goose stepping higher and whistling Dixie louder as they make their way to the Tea Bagger National Convention next month in Nashville. and Fox News are giddy, and Cigna, Blue Cross and United HealthCare execs are huffin’ Cuban cigars in the boardrooms. They all have reason for [...]

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Drug Testing For Welfare: Kick ‘Em While They’re Down

by Prentice
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Welfare. It’s just for those who are clean and sober. And kids of the clean and sober. For God’s sake, we can’t have kids of drug addicted parents getting a sandwich at public expense. Right? No way!
That’s the way a quarter million folks who signed up as fans of the Facebook group “Making Drug Tests Required [...]

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World’s Largest Religious Gathering Begins On Banks Of The Ganges

by Prentice
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People worshiping God. It is a wonderful thing to see. Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, whatever their faith and tradition may be. In a world so ravaged by corruption, cruelty and hate, the sight of men and women striving together for what is pure, gentle, loving and right gives hope and reassurance that God has not [...]

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Where Women Are Not Honored, There Can Be No Honor At All

by Prentice
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Few things ignite more emotion and get Americans more worked up than animal abuse. Granted, nothing seems to hold Americans’ attention for long, but when folks hear about abused or neglected animals they usually respond. Every year Americans open their pocketbooks and donate more than $2 billion for shelters, humane clinics and other charitable services [...]

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The Story Of Adam And Eve: A Way Back To Eden

by Prentice
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Few stories are as universally familiar as the story of Adam and Eve. Of all the Bible stories I learned as a child, few had such immediate or lasting impact on me as this magical story of a treacherous serpent and the forbidden Tree of Knowledge.

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People Need A Living Wage To Live: There Should Be No “Working Poor.”

by Mary Ann
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Americans are a contentious people. We argue, bicker, squabble and disagree about just about everything. The number of things upon which we all agree seems to be small and shrinking, but I’m betting that most people will agree with the following statement:
A person who works forty hours per week in honest employment deserves to earn [...]

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“Sit With Us In Council,” Say The Spiders To The Fly

by Prentice
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A few weeks ago I was engaged in conversation by a civic minded religious friend who feels that the social gospel, the work we Christians are commissioned to do, can be effectively advanced by forming alliances with local officials, quasi governmental agencies and law enforcement. We should meet with them, my friend said, and see [...]

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Viva La Stimulus! Forgive Student Loan Debt!

by Mary Ann
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I remember hearing about the American dream when I was a kid. The yarn went something like this. “Work hard, make good grades, get a good job and take a vacation every year.” There were slightly different versions for boys and girls. The version for girls was shorter. It left out the part about getting [...]

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Porn-O-Scan At The Airport: A Patriotic Peep Show!

by Prentice
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I swear to God, I never did it. Never once. But, I’m more than happy to tell on Danny, Lee and Cisco. When we were in the seventh grade those clever and nefarious characters all harassed the girls by stealthily placing little mirrors on the classroom floor with the idea of getting a glimpse up [...]

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We Are Cowards Of The Worst Sort

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On March 13, 1964 a news report from New York City horrified and shamed the nation. Catherine Genovese, a twenty-nine year old resident of Queens, had run through her neighborhood for more than thirty minutes, fleeing an attacker and screaming for help as almost forty locals looked on from their windows, but offered no assistance. [...]

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When We Get To The Bottom Of This We’re Going To Find God There

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New Year’s Eve 2010
“When we get to the bottom of this, we’re going to find God there,” I wrote in a letter to Mary Ann many years ago. There could be no explanation for the overwhelmingly insistent and irresistible love we shared but that God had planted it in our hearts.
Tonight, at midnight, we [...]

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