PRETENDING TO BE HAPPY

Last week was the 13th birthday of my youngest son, Jackson. One evening a few days before, I was engrossed in writing on the computer when my wife reminded me it was Jackson’s bedtime. He was in bed reading, waiting for me to kiss him goodnight.

As I walked down the hall towards his room, my brain was filled with thoughts about the article I was working on. I was on autopilot and all I could think about was what I would write when I got back on the computer.

For some reason, I stopped and stood still. Somehow, an (more…)

RELIEF FROM BAGHDAD BOILS

A number of US soldiers fighting in Iraq have become afflicted with a horrible disease called leishmaniasis (leesh-mun-eye-ah-sis). They get it from the bite of a sand-fly which injects a parasite into their bloodstream. The “cutaneous” version of the disease causes huge, ghastly, and painful boils on the face and other areas of the skin – thus the name, Baghdad Boils. The “visceral” version destroys the liver and other internal organs and can be fatal.

Here’s a video clip from a TV news story on: Baghdad Boils .

Compounding the problem is that the treatment seems worse than (more…)

WINNERS WITHOUT A SPINE… Don’t Stay Winners For Long

The only thing harder to find in the U.S. Senate these days than a Democrat with a conscience is a Republican with a spine.

Democrats may have been waxed at the polls last November, but they’re running rings around Republicans in the public relations battles so far this year. Consider:

* Polls indicate a majority of Americans agree with President Bush that reform of Social Security is needed, and about half of Americans favor his plan to permit workers to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts. But in the most recent poll (taken for (more…)

DINNER WITH TOM

On Thursday evening, May 12, in Washington DC, a number of pro-Americans are hosting a testimonial dinner for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. It will be a very impressive show of support for Tom by the conservative movement, and of its determination not to let the Democrats’ War on DeLay succeed.

If you can be in Washington on May 12, I would like to personally encourage you to attend. The stakes in this war are large – control of Congress, smoothing or thwarting Hillary’s path to the White House – as explained earlier this month in Hillary’s War on DeLay (more…)