Monthly Archives: September 2006

The Hill Times has a line up of the fall Parliamentary calendar. It will be interesting to see if there is an emergency debate regarding Stephen Harper’s upcoming speech to the UN regarding Canadian foreign policy. I think although health … Continue reading →

Sojourner’s and Beliefnet have teamed up to launch a new blog called God’s Politics. Good lineup of writers – and it’s an honest-to-God blog like Street Prophets, Out of Ur, Faithful Progressive or Talk2Action. It’s not meant to be a column … Continue reading →

When you read the statements of condemnation from key political and Islamic leaders it reads a bit like a blog flam war. Pope Benedict XVI has apologized and clarified his remarks, after churches in the middle east were firebombed an a … Continue reading →

No, Canadians won’t be seeing hundreds of US troops along the border protecting the US.  Yet. Maybe someday, it’s politics and one never know how that swings. A fence, well, US lawmakers seem to think the northern border has the … Continue reading →

sigh. I think this is a good idea and a great site, so good in fact that back in April this year I wanted to read Fredrick Clarkson’s book “Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy And Democracy”. Enough that I did … Continue reading →

I have written before that Benedict XVI is not a PC pope. By that, I don’t mean that he sets out to give offense; on the contrary, he’s one of the most gracious figures ever to step on the world … Continue reading →

Funny commercials get my attention.:^)

I’m fried. Tired. Hurting. Lost. Burned out right now. The last couple of days I’ve been concerned for a friend and his wife. She fell, has a double compound fracture of the upper right arm and is doped up in … Continue reading →