Sojourners is one of my regular and favourite reads. Anyone interested in where faith meets politics meets culture needs to read this magazine and website. The man behind the mission is Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics:
Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, a welcome voice of reason, compassion and intelligence to stand against the prevailing political thought that God is a Republican.
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John Glenn, hero, astronaut, veteran, and respected politician, calls on the 2nd Congressional District of Ohio to elect Paul Haskell as the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress.
Here’s the release from the OH02 blog:
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A recent press release by a conservative PAC in Cincinnati is urging conservatives and republicans to not vote for Jean Schmidt in Tuesday’s special election. Schmidt’s election chances have taken several surprising hits recently in what should be a conservative stronghold in Cincinnati and southwestern Ohio. John Glenn’s endorsement of her opponent Paul Hackett as well as those of the Cincy Post and Dayton Daily News have shown a united opposition to Schmidt’s campaign. Recent remarks denigrating Paul Hackett’s military service in Iraq have also not helped Ms. Schmidt’s campaign in an election where she needs to gather all the friends she can find. The fact that COAST, a conservative organization, is encouraging fellow conservatives to not vote for Schmidt, but rather to wait for a better conservative candidate in the next election suggests the Schmidt campaign may have a rough day on August 2nd.
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Check out MoveOn.org’s slogan contest to combat the cover-up operation being mounted to protect Karl Rove. Between the facts surrounding this scandal and the Downing Street memo, is there any reasonable excuse why there is no mass call for employment termination, criminal investigation and/or impeachment of certain corrupt political figures?
For more background, please read Larry Johnson’s key facts article.
Tags: Karl Rove | MoveOn.org | Valerie Plame | Robert Novak | Joe Wilson
It amazes me that politicians with no military service or with questionable service records have the audacity to criticize the service of those challenging them politically, simply because they are Democrats. I think this defines the concept of un-patriotic and un-American political under-handedness. They proudly carry the flag for the brave men and women serving our country militarily until those same veterans come home and stand against them politically. This is an outrageous insult and I hope that conservatives and republicans in Ohio’s 2nd District stand against the Schmidt Campaign for this dishonorable rhetoric.
If you are capable of voting or volunteering for the Paul Hackett campaign, please do so quickly as this weekend will be critical in securing next Tuesday’s election. If you would like to donate to Paul’s campaign, please help him stand against these disgusting media attacks.
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Amidst faltering support for challenger Jean Schmidt, the Dayton Daily News has endorsed
Paul Hackett for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District in the August 2nd special election.
Tags: Paul Hackett | Congress | Democrat | Cincinnati | Ohio | Election | News
The Cincy Post has officially endorsed Paul Hackett for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District in the August 2nd special election.
Tags: Paul Hackett | Congress | Democrat | Cincinnati | Ohio | Election | News
CNN Money is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is discontuing its relationship with Apple in selling dual-branded HP | Apple iPods. According to Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton, “[HP] decided that reselling iPods doesn’t fit with their company’s current digital media strategy.”
The partnership was announced at a January 2004 CES show. Hewlett-Packard will immediately phase-out all sales of iPods according to The Wall Street Journal’s online edition.
Julia Roberts will star in Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain coming to Broadway in Spring 2006. Joe Mantello (Take Me Out,Glengarry Glen Ross and The Odd Couple) is set to direct. Marc Platt and David Stone (Wicked) will produce. The male leads have not been announced.
This is Julia Roberts’ first lead role on the Broadway stage and one of her first acting gigs since delivering twins last year. She is best-known for her Oscar-winning performance in Erin Brockovich, her breakout hit Pretty Woman, and the cult-favourite Steel Magnolias.
Tickets go on sale in November and there will be a limited 12 week engagement in March at an as yet un-named theater.
Three Days of Rain was first done in New York in 1997 at off-Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club. A family drama / mystery, the three-character play starred Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford.
Grammy award winning Nickel Creek has done it again with a stellar 14 track gem called Why Should the Fire Die?. As usual, the musicianship is excellent; would-be guitarists and mandolinists will be rewinding and pausing Sean and Chris’ licks for weeks. The musicality and sheer brilliance of the trio’s work always leaves me surprised and refreshed. Buy this record now! and call your radio station and CMT to make sure they are playing it. For the lucky few ( oh how I wish i was one of them ) they are playing a limited series of shows across the country where they perform the album in its entirety, track 1 to track 14. wow.