Tag: 9/11

How Well Written!

I highly recommend that Americans stop and think about what Garrison Keillor has written in this excerpt from his new book,  Homegrown Democrat (© 2004). Mr. Keillor is the host and writer of  A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 25th year on the air. Rather than just read these short quotations here, read the entire excerpt by clicking here.… Continue reading

Am I Conservative Or Am I Liberal?

I am a very conservative guy in many ways.  No, really!  Here are just three of my conservative declarations: Declaration I: Be Fiscally Responsible Fiscally I am very conservative.  Ultra-conservative.  More conservative than the republicans ever thought of being apparently.  (With sentence structure I can be liberal.) You see, unlike the republicans, I think that we should not spend more… Continue reading

“Signs of the Times”

When I was a child growing up in the extreme right wing fundamentalist movement, I heard many gloom and doom sermons about the end times.  The good Reverend Jack Van Impe had heard from God many times that the world was going to end at least a dozen times by now.  He preached his sermons with such fervor that, as… Continue reading