Look how low the bar has now gotten. This is from the President's May 2, 2007 address to the Associated General Contractors of America: ..."But slowly but surely, the truth will be known. Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian…
We of "Cardinal Nation" here in St. Louis suffered the loss of relief pitcher Josh Hancock this last weekend. In case you haven't heard, he was killed when he crashed his SUV full-speed into the back of a tow-truck on the highway. The tow truck was stopped, lights blazing in…
On Saturday, May 5, 2007, a free, independent and self-funded student newspaper is scheduled for a quiet execution at Saint Louis University, a self-professed Catholic, Jesuit institution of higher learning in St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the world with its varied woes will little note the goings on at the…
Last Saturday, I was running some errands with my daughters when we passed by a store called “Mystic Valley.â€Â I mentioned to my daughters (they are six and eight) that some people believe that they can tell the future and read other peoples minds. My daughters were incredulous. They thought I was being silly, so they made me “pinky swear” that I was telling the truth. I pinky swore before making a U-turn to head back to the neighborhood psychic store.
“Come on,” I said. “Let’s go into the store and check out the people who believe that other people can tell the future and read their minds.” My daughters were still suspicious that I was making this up, but into the store we went.
The first thing you notice is the smell of incense. We passed by the rack of psychic magazines, then the shelves of crystals, the piles of drums, and some ethnic carvings before noticing that there were about seven small tables scattered throughout the store, each of them with two people seated facing each other. Many of the experts were holding the customers’ hands. If you listened closely, you could hear the psychics counseling the customers.
“Now do you believe me?” I whispered to my daughters. They didn’t know what to think.
I walked up to the checkout counter and asked the pleasant soft-spoken man what was going on at the tables. He indicated that some of the people were psychics, others were doing tarot card …
Adrianna Huffington argues that there were other options for George Tenet than to stand by silently and watch the "slow motion car crash." George Tenet seems to believe there's a major distinction between lying and standing by silently while others lie, and then proudly receiving a Medal of Freedom from…