Category Archives: news and current events

AMERICA’S LOOMING FISCAL CRISIS: AN ELECTION WAKE-UP CALL

Before I drop off the web for the rest of the Triduum, here’s a free, public event in Oakland. More info is here.  I also call your attention to the good things that “Paulites” are accomplishing on the local level here.

AMERICA’S LOOMING FISCAL CRISIS:
AN ELECTION YEAR WAKE-UP CALL

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Bye, Bye, Marty

June 22, 2005

I still get a number of hits to my post about the firing of Christian talk show host Marty Minto. I never quite finished it because I got tied up in more important things, so I decided to come back and do just that. For those interested, the original entry can be found in its entirety (misspellings, bad grammar, and all) here.

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Unnatural Disasters

Blogicus
reminds us that the Khartoum regime of Sudan has killed almost 400,000 civilians.
That’s about half of the death toll from the genocide in Rwanda
. The deaths
caused by the tsunamis – a natural disaster – happened nearly instantly in comparison
to these murders. We can’t stop nature’s wrath, but we should have done – should
still be doing – something about man’s.