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2013
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Dr. King…I Have a Dream A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 250,000, and a television audience numbering in the millions on August 28, 1963, to deliver a sp...
09/26/2013
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Another of God’s Better Angels When I come across a story like the one I am about share with you, I just feel an obligation to pass along the good news. My wife records Dr Phil so we can watch it while we are eating dinner each week night. The past two nights, it has been about a 16 year old gi...
09/25/2013
Washington Burns While McCain Plays On-Line Poker What’s the old adage about those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it? My headline for this blog I highjacked from the famous saying about Nero, the Roman Emperor, fiddling while Rome burned. I remember as a little boy…oh, who am ...
09/19/2013
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A Contrast of Two Lives I am sure most of you are aware of the firestorm Miley Cyrus caused the other night at the VMA Music Video Awards. In her efforts to put further distance between her current image and that of her wholesome image when she was a young Disney star, Ms Cyrus may have succeeded...
09/12/2013
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For the last several weeks the world has been consumed with the talk of war. We are all witnesses to Syrian President Assad using chemical agents on his own people. Estimates run as high as 1,400 people were killed during this attack. We have had President Obama urging the world and our country’s...
09/11/2013
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The Overwhelming Power of Love I came across this story I am about to share with you, and it just sort of reinforced what all of us intrinsically know…love is a powerful force in the universe. Every now and then, we hear about someone lifting a car or tractor to free a loved-one pinned under the ...
09/04/2013