Editor’s Pick
MARCH 5, 2009 6:02PM

Boys, a Buick, and Vietnam

 

(not the Buick)

 

It was the fall of 1967.  I was almost 16, anxiously awaiting my next birthday so I could get my drivers’ license.  My two friends were in the front seat of the large Buick station wagon and I was sitting in the back, alone.  Jeff, the driver, was/… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
JANUARY 30, 2009 11:44AM

No more schadenfreude for Ted Haggard

Ted Haggard 

The Trials of Ted Haggard is currently being broadcast on HBO.  The movie is a 45 minute documentary by Alexandra Pelosi who previously directed Friends of God.  It is certainly worth watching if one is interested in following the fate of a former fundamentalist Christian supe/… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
DECEMBER 20, 2008 7:40PM

Change in Energy Policy

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One thing I feel that the Obama administration should do concerning national energy policy is increase the tax on gasoline to the point that the price at the pump never goes below $3.50 a gallon.  This would do several things:

  1. It would make gasoline less competitive than other for/
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