Bush Adminstration

This is a "journal entry" I had to write for my Contemporary Issues class and I thought I'd share. But before you read please know that this is based off of my own opinion and backed up by some facts. I do rant a little in this, please don't be rude in commenting. Thank you.  Read More »

You ARE What You EAT, Are You a Tortured Soul?

Are we eating ourselves into a national health crisis? Why don’t we support local farms and community supported agriculture at a higher level? Would an increase in local farms help reduce the risks associated with large factory farms? What scares you more, the health risks associated with the factory farms (unhealthy/at-risk animals being slaughtered) OR the risk of animal cruelty (tortured soul)?  Read More »

Our president may have a musical ear, but when it comes to sensible reasoning, one could probably extract more logic from the underside of a toaster. On October 26th, 2001, the 44th president of the United States smiled at the bill that lay in front of him. He took a pen out of the finely crafted English desk. This was the moment he’d been waiting for.  Read More »

We'll consider this post more of a happy dance masquerading as a blog post versus a regular old blog post. But, I just had to say it...

Karl Rove is leaving the White House at the end of the month. When I saw that headline this morning, I thought I'd finally lost touch with reality. But no! He's really leaving. This is almost as wonderful as the day Rumsfeld resigned. I cried tears of joy then (and likely will come Rove's last day).

>>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An emotional Karl Rove characterized his tenure in the White House as a "witness to history" as he announced his resignation as President Bush's senior political adviser at the end of this month.  Read More »