Last month’s primary elections were heavy with the usual rhetoric: smooth talk, trash talk, sweet talk, empty talk. Now God talk has been added to what was one of the most alienating elections we’ve had in a long time. In the 5th U.S. House District Republican primary, the five candidates became whirling dervishes of […]
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Politics
I confess: I am a 42-year-old “Harry Potter” fan. My son is also a “Harry Potter” fan, but I am willing to admit that my appreciation for the J.K. Rowling series goes beyond paternal duty, and, like my son, I jump up and down on the couch and squeal when a new installment is released. […]
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Heart of a martyr
The Rev. Stanley Rother’s heart rested behind the church’s main altar in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. The successor to the slain priest, the Rev. Thomas McSherry, wanted to relocate the buried vital organ to a less obscure location during the 10th anniversary of Rother’s assassination. Finding a home ‘A paradise and a hellhole’ ‘Accepted on the […]
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Vigilante’ vendetta?
Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane said new charges and a resurrected case against the self-described “Video Vigilante” Brian Bates happened because Bates wouldn’t shut up about the case. Bates and his attorney, Scott Adams, say Lane is using the law to attempt to silence a political critic. Although Oklahoma County District Judge […]