PraiseNet Essentials 2013

PraiseNet Essentials: 2013 Retrospective
Trust, loyalty, honor, support, faithfulness, absolute confidentiality:  all core values of both the Christian faith and the Mob. How many of those ideals do we actually practice? Somewhere along the line we have lost our way. In that respect, we could learn a lot from the Mob--at least the way the Mob is supposed to work.

The Age of Obama

As President Barack Obama completes the first year of his second term, here is a collection of essays about this historic and turbulent presidency, and this president’s constant uphill battle against irrational conservatism and racial hatred, from Election Day 2008 to the present.

No. 416 January 2014

It’s important to point out I’m not talking about dumb people or even uneducated people.
Making a conscious choice to not better ourselves, to not be better informed or more rational, makes a virtue of intellectual laziness. I blame most of this on Bart Simpson, who made under-achievement a kind of ersatz virtue. We are no longer stigmatized for being stupid which is, in and of itself, stupid.

American Intellectualism In Freefall

 
Stupid People
Making a conscious choice to not better ourselves makes a virtue of intellectual laziness. I blame most of this on Bart Simpson.
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Invictus
That a glitchy site could tarnish an entire year of a U.S. presidency speaks to how endemically fragile, and thus endemically flawed, Obama’s presidency is.
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Obama Year Five

Video: The Newsroom

 
The Blood of Jesus On Trial
If you find yourself judging others, keep in mind that you are putting the blood of Jesus on trial.

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The Blood of Jesus On Trial

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