Missing the forest for the trees (or counting cavities in the gift horse's mouth.) How many have actually seen the "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" video? http://www.webcasts.com/kingofbain/

Newt, the messenger may be extremely flawed to the extreme, but the message is "spot on." It is b… Read full post »

By John C. Klotz

"In 1929 I sold short,
In England I'm presented at court,
But you've got me down hearted,
'Cause I can't get started with you"
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 It is probably the most blatant act of insubordination since Douglas MacArthur tried to hide is own incompetence behind insubordinate attacks on Harry truman during the Korean War. Gen. Stanley McCrystal has bashed his Commander-in-Chief in an interview with Rolling Stone and now has apoligiz… Read full post »

The Internet reported today that a majority of heterosexual males  now support gay rights, something I have instinctively supported since October, 1960. That is when I first confronted the issue of gay rights and why  I have no choice but to support equality for gays. It is directly related… Read full post »

By John C. Klotz

 Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010

 Life is a struggle. <FN1> That can be true even if you have obtained your life’s ambition. Take Pope Benedict XVI for example. He is under attack for reportedly covering-up the burgeoning priest-pedophile scandal. His critics… Read full post »

 In golf, amateur hackers (such as myself) will often play by winter rules: that means if your ball is lying in a really bad spot you can correct its location to make for an easier shot. The theory is that it’s winter and the course is in bad shape. Of course,… Read full post »

 The God of Probabilities: How voting fraud in Iran demonstrates the existence of God

 Is the title of this piece a jest? Am I kidding? What possible relationship could there be between voting fraud and the issue of God’s existence. Well there is, at least metaphorically;… Read full post »

Obama's initiative in Cairo is more than a political gambit, it is a probably last chance to avoid another Holocaust. The question is whose Holocaust will it be.

The Right Wing extremist emergence as the power in the Israeli government had its genesis in the assassin's bullet which struck down… Read full post »

The question is whether Obama, the sum of all hopes, has been had by the CIA. According to reports aired by Keith Olberman on Countdown, the memos released by the CIA have a certain fishy smell. The agency has been cooking the books on Nancy Pelosi and altering its records.… Read full post »

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“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let… Read full post »

“Ghetto” is a highly charged word conjuring many images, most of them unpleasant and angry. The word  had its origins in medieval Venice, where Jews were segregated into an area that had been a weapons foundry or “ghetto” and throughout most of history it has retained its… Read full post »

 The big news in Yankeeland, and a few other places in America I guess, is Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez's hip. He has a torn labrum in his hip and a cyst.

The question is: is A-Rod suffering from the effects of his admitted steroid use through repeated injections of the drugs… Read full post »

 Pope Benedict has done it gain. His tin ear and tin policies has led him to reinstate the Pius X Society, a collection of renegade Catholics with a history of Anti-Semitism who were excommunicated by Pope John Paul II (not exactly a cutting edge liberal himself).

 I don't… Read full post »

 On April 7, 2007, my son Michael Arthur Klotz, age 34, died in Milwaukee after a long, courageous battle with kidney disease. This piece is adopted from one published on my first blog a year ago.

St. John wrote that "God is love." On this Christmas Eve,… Read full post »

The Washington Post is running a blog on the issue of whether contraception is essentially abortion. This question isn’t new.  The issue is related to the issue of when does a human being become a human being, which for the religiously inclined becomes: when does the individual  human… Read full post »