Last night I joined hundreds of others at First Evangelical Free Church in Manchester, Mo., to hear and meet Hank Hanegraaff, the Bible Answer Man and president of the Christian Research Institute. Hank, as he’s usually called, is known by millions of Christians as a man with answers and a lion of the faith. He [...]

According to this news report, Sen. Craig wil resign his Senate seat tomorrow.
Craig decided to resign with plans to make the announcement on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
Craig will hold a news conference in Boise on Saturday, his spokesman, Dan Whiting said, but he would not say whether the three-term senator planned to step down. [...]

John Warner has decided to not seek re-election.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Sen. John Warner, R-Va., announced Friday he will not seek re-election in 2008, concluding a long carreer that has hoisted him to one of the pre-eminent voices on U.S. foreign policy.
The announcement leaves open a seat that is likely to be hotly contested in [...]

Democratic fund raiser Norman Hsu, who has been a fugitive for 16 years, has turned himself in to authorities in California.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis ordered Norman [...]

I will be sorry to see Tony Snow leave his position in this administration.
Tony has been a very effective communicator for the White House and has had a flair for words at the Press Briefings which we haven’t seen in a very long time.
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who [...]

If what I saw in this post at Sweetness and Light is what passes for art today then I am sad for all of us.
Artworks depicting Osama bin Laden in a Christ-like pose and a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in a burqa have caused a stir in Australia after they were showcased [...]

Everyone has been wagging their tongues about Sen. Larry Craig. Republicans on the Hill have been calling for his resignation for his guilty plea on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police Dept. has released the audio and a written transcript of the interview between the arresting police officer and Sen. [...]

I will not elaborate as the post is only one paragraph and to the point. Check out the names being bandied about at Powerline.
For once Senator Specter and I just might agree.

As ususal Mr. Yon gives us unbiased, concise reporting from his position as an embed. I appreciated the human element he incorporates in the following paragraph:
When you really talk with Iraqis, their problems (outside of the war) are mostly like people’s problems all over the world. The shepherds want the wild dogs to leave [...]

If this report is true Fred Thompson will finally announce his entry into the presidential race on next Thursday, Sept. 6.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will officially launch his candidacy Sept. 6 in a webcast on his campaign site, followed by a [...]

For those who wish for a little humor injected into their Thursday, check out this article from todays Daily Mail.
They’ve become de rigueur for churches around the world: the signs carrying snappy advertising slogans to attract worshippers.
Many show a surprising sense of humour, and here we present a collection of the funniest.
Enjoy!

Maybe we should call for a complete investigation of the UN and their practices for storing WMD.
At the very least the weapons inspectors should be asked to explain the presence of an extremely dangerous chemical stored in the building in New York.
According to Reuters:
United Nations officials found vials of dangerous chemicals, which had been removed [...]

China says the problems with the Mattel toys is the fault of Mattel and U.S. protectionism.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mattel has only itself to blame for a huge toy recall that has stoked global alarm about Chinese-made goods, state media said on Thursday, charging that a slew of foreign safety scares had exposed a protectionist agenda.
Mattel [...]

Unnamed sources have told the AP the GAO will give a mostly negative report about the progress made by the Iraqi government in the benchmarks set by Washington in January.
WASHINGTON — Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going to give the contributions received from Norman Hsu to charity.
She didn’t have much choice after it was revealed in the Los Angeles Times he’s a fugitive.
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign announced late Wednesday that it will give all money donated by a leading contributor to charity after it was [...]

This is a screen shot only.
To view the entire video visit Townhall.
There has been no word to my knowledge from either of these camps as to their thoughts concerning this endorsement.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
Clinton leads Obama [...]

Yesterday I wrote about John Edwards saying we should sacrifice SUV’s in order to save on fuel.
Here are the cars in his driveway at his home. Four are circled but if you look closely around the barn and in the front driveway you will notice other SUV’s there.

Looks like gas-guzzling SUV’s to me. [...]

Richard Jewell, the security guard at the Atlanta Olympics, who was praised as a hero and then vilified as the press as the primary suspect in the bombing at the Olympics has died at the age of 44.
Richard Jewell, the former security guard once suspected of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing — then cleared — [...]

Yesterday, Guss surprised all of us by saying he was going to stay away from blogging on this blog until after the election due to the tit for tat that has been going on.
We are in the process of setting up a separate blog for Guss that will be his alone to manage.
The URL for [...]

I’m cautiously optimistic about this report.
BAGHDAD — Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganize the force, and it will no longer attack U.S. and coalition troops, aides said Wednesday.
The aide, Sheik Hazim al-Araji, said on Iraqi state television that the [...]

The political season has started with a bang and J and I have, sometimes, different points of view. If I stayed and continued to post, it would be nothing but tit for tat and I respect her too much to do that. Hopefully, after the election, I will try my hand at blogging again. I [...]

Turn on your speakers and just enjoy.

He may be a beleaguered president, but don’t call him a lame duck yet, as he is still fighting for what he believes.
President Bush has said, in spite of Democrats asking for a say in the Attorney General pick, that he will nominate someone who agrees with his policies.
A half-dozen or so lawyers are [...]

The Republican leadership in congress has asked for an ethics investigation into Senator Larry Craig and his latest escapades.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, Republican leaders announced they will launch an ethics review of the senator.
“This is a serious matter. Due to the reported and disputed circumstances, and the legal resolution of this serious case, we will [...]

Former Senator and current presidential candidate John Edwards has said Americans should sacrifice SUVs to save on fuel.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group that he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.
“I think Americans are actually willing to sacrifice,” Edwards said [...]

This is whats happening in the real world of scandal. People don’t care about who got a million here or there. They care about things that they can understand in one second of their busy lives. I think that we are going to need more than campaign finance scandal this time around to beat the [...]

Many recalls later, Mattel has decided they need to get down to business and become serious about quality control. Given the magnitude of these defective products, manufactured mainly for children, I would say the time should have been many yesterday’s ago.
Now Mattel, which appears to have stumbled in part because it had become overconfident [...]

Anyone who has had children who reach their teenage years, (or perhaps pre-teen), has probably noticed that their sleep habits change a bit.
This is not to say that as parents we relinquish control, but increased school assignments, social activities, clubs and sports sometimes make both parent and child wish the day was 10 hours [...]

The Paw’s home
The Wall Street Journal has a piece up today that appears to bring up questions about some of Hillary Clinton’s campaign contributions.
A mailman who makes $49,000 a year, his unemployed wife and their grown children have given a total of $45,000 to Mrs. Clinton since 2005, and a total of $200,000 to Democratic [...]

I have sat back now for a long time and watched as too many decent individuals who have done nothing but give up their private lives and incomes to serve this country be treated in a manner unbecoming of those of us who are citizens of this great country. While I agree the Attorney General [...]