MInTheGap

A few weeks ago the news was awash with the idea that Sen. Obama was impossible to make fun of.  Many late night comics were out saying they just couldn’t find anything that was that funny—or that they felt their audiences could laugh at.

Then Obama went overseas.

It was supposed to be a “win” for Obama—getting a chance to speak to foreign leaders and making him look more Presidential.  Instead, it continued to feed into the notion that Sen. Obama believes that he’s already won the contest—and that really doesn’t endear oneself to voters.

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Part of being able to be free is knowing the truth about gas prices:

Hat Tip: SayAnything

If you’ve read here for any length of time, you will know that I have many different opinions on boycotts.  Sometimes I have promoted them.  Sometimes I’ve explored it Biblically in context that there is always something sinful being promoted.  Sometimes I’ve used it as a springboard to talk about different topics.  And recently I waded into comments talking about the Boycott on McDonalds.

But should a Christian boycott something sinful?

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Bill Clinton has done parents all over the United States a favor.  You see, parents everywhere were unable to control their child’s nutrition, especially when it came to what they ate in school.

He saw the need—some kids were buying snacks that were high in fat with their lunch or snack money, and since we know that teaching kids discipline or self control is out of the question, the only way to get them to eat healthier (more healthy?  more healthily?) was to only give them healthy options.

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We’ve previously covered the woman that auctioned herself along with her Ferrari and the girl that flew to the Middle East to marry a man she met on MySpace.

This newest entry of strange marriage arrangements comes from Florida, where a woman is selling her house—and herself—on eBay and Craigslist:

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Republicans and Democrats in today’s culture have two different “guiding themes” by which they are measured.  The Republicans are known to be the people of smaller government and more self destiny.  The Democrats are the ones with government solutions to problems.

In reality, both of these parties differ only in degrees.  Certainly the Democrats want to have more government than the Republicans, but the Republicans have been catching up—especially as they had almost exclusive power during most of President Bush’s time in office.

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Back when we were having the debate over Capital Punishment one of the areas that always comes up is whether it is just, and the fact that God has a bunch of rules in the Old Testament that have, as their sentence, death.

At that point, I hadn’t even realized that up until yesterday six states had the death penalty as the result of the rape of a minor.

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