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Hey America.  You come to my more-than-a-city-less-than-a-state, you drive on my roads to get to Mall, you rely on my police force to protect you, you throw your trash in my garbage cans, you ride my public transportation during rush hour and really, that’s OK.  Because all I ask in return is that you let [...]

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It’s kind of a crazy time when Republicans who say they believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility, promotion by merit, free-market behavior, and individual freedoms end up not doing anything to promote them.
And Democrats?  They sound like libertarians:
The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government’s business … [...]

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Poor Messiah College.  You get yourself in the US News and  World Report, you grow a kick-ass accounting program, you let the kids have blogs, you spend all this time and effort to
… educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership and [...]

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How old am I?  So old that JCPenny is mining my precious, precious memories of the greatest teen movie of all time to sell back-to-school clothes.  At first I thought it was some Disney, High-School-Musical-like remake of the movie and then kinda sighed in relief that it was just a commercial. Clearly, although the commercial [...]

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A summer pop song should be everything the phrase suggests: poppy, frothy, bouncing fun.  Lyrically, it should at least make sense (and be easy to memorize) but not deliver anything too weighty.  And it should definitely have a beat but not a heavy one.  And for goodness’ sakes, it should be be able to deliver [...]

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For some reason, no one seems to really be pursuing this story past the 24-hour news cycle except for CNN and the gay press. But I think it just gets more and more horrific and sad.
What kind of country do we live in where someone goes into a church — a holy and protected space [...]

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Until Christmas?  Who cares because hopefully Christmas will come early this year.  Like on November 4.  Which is a mere 100 days from now.
I know it seems as if the campaigning has gone on forever (because it has) but it was only 2 years ago or so that the first candidates stepped their fresh, rosy [...]

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And yet again, the Young Anabaptist Radicals discuss women without a single woman in the discussion.
Eeks.  Apparently, in a matchup between motorcycle and crazed horse dragging a buggy, the motorcycle loses.
Ami-Menno literature online this week include Russian Mennonite memoirs (with a graphically accurate cover) and a leader in the growing genre of “Amish fiction.”
As if [...]

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Today is the 60th anniversary of a racially integrated military.  An odd post for a Mennonite to make?  Probably.  After all, I’d prefer that there wouldn’t be any military at all.  But if we are going to have one (and so far, my side isn’t winning the overall battle here so I’m kinda resigned and [...]

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The most amazing gallery of decorated cakes ever on Cake Wrecks.
Personal favorites include the the James Bond cake and  the “I’m not gay, I’m British” cake.  Good times, good times.
Via Slog – who I’ve been hitting up a lot recently for the Friday drive-by postings. Thank you Paul Constant for doing my work for me.

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