Let’s face it, even mainstream Republicans will admit, Newt Gingrich is a moral misfit. You know the drill, he told his first wife he was divorcing her on her cancer bed, then he told his second wife that he was having an affair with a young staffer and wanted an open marriage all while trying to impeach President Clinton for having an affair and telling gays that they had no right to take the sacred vows of marriage.
Author: Judge Michael Boyajian
Golden Globes
|Watching the Golden Globes one can surmise what the rest of the world thinks of we Americans. First America’s greatest assets are its movies and so we amuse all the world. On the other hand we also frighten the world with our trillion dollar military, fundamentalist Christians, heavily armed citizenry and violent street crime.
The One Percent and the Yuletide
|My mother’s church group is made up mostly of seniors who work hard all year as church volunteers even contributing what little extra money they have to their group. At the end of the year the church provides them with a small Christmas party as thanks for their work, a real treat for people who are on a fixed income.
Dreidel, Dreidel
|What Christian kid in Elementary School in the 1960s when learning of holiday practices didn’t want to spin a dreidel yet felt constrained from doing so out of a lack of understanding?
Well today you can spin the dreidel. You can pick and choose aspects from different religions to heighten your spiritual awareness.
Why Not Support All Teams In Terms Of Faith
|I noticed something this football season. There are two kinds of football fans in New York. There are those that support both the Giants and the Jets but perhaps lean one way or the other when they meet and then there are those fans that rigidly believe you can only root for one team or the other. I disavowed the later approach after 9/11 when I realized we are all New Yorkers and now I find that I have doubled my viewing satisfaction because chances are when one team lo
Paradise Lost
|Watching the Woody Allen film Midnight In Paris one learns that there were certain literary and artistic golden ages in history. A study of history reveals this to be true. There was the Athens of Socrates, the Pax Romano, the Renaissance of Florence, Paris in the 20s and New York in the 60s or even America in the 60s.
Raise High the Roof Beam of Liberal Democracy
|A safety release for many liberals was the thought of fleeing America for Europe a place of culture, mass transit, health care, social programs and wealth.
Why Liberals Should Favor Strong Action Against Iran
|Liberals seem to favor a minimal response to the belligerent actions of Iran beyond the sanctions that have been put in place. This is wrong because Iran has not only threatened the free world with its work on a nuclear device and its stealth hand in terrorism but because Iran changed America from a liberal nation to a conservative one that has refuted the very compassionate ideals of our founders.
Swimming the Armenian Genocide
|There is a Moby song which seems to be about a woman who is drowning in a sea of love and she is getting tired of swimming and just wants to rest and be released from her endeavor to persevere. That is how many Armenians feel about the Armenian Genocide. We are growing tired of fighting for Turkish recognition of the event yet keep pushing on determined hoping to be released from this prison of memories.
The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide
|This Thanksgiving I watched two elderly women on TV. One was a Holocaust survivor and the other was at that time a child whose family hid the survivor from the Nazis at their own peril. The two women, one Catholic the other Jewish, were reunited for the first time at a tearful reunion celebrating the joy of human compassion. The scene made me cry with the childhood friends.
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