Jeremiah Overboard
Did I just see what I think I saw?
Did the media tell Barack Obama, “If you’ll denounce and disavow your pastor, we’ll let you continue running for President”?
I have two questions, one for the press, one for Obama.
First the press:
What happened to the Mitt Romney Agreement? READ MORE...
05.01.2008 | Comments(46)
Jeremiah Wright 1, Sound Bite 0
Since when do you have “amens” at the National Press Club? Apparently when Jeremiah Wright is the speaker!
I once knew a city editor in Philadelphia who would say “amen” to a dry Rob Roy at 2 in the afternoon, which is the closest anyone ever came to exuberance in the newsrooms of my youth. But anybody who watched any cable this past weekend could be forgiven for thinking that Rupert Murdoch just launched a new Jeremiah Wright Channel, READ MORE...
04.29.2008 | Comments(80)
Peace Then, Peace Now, and Real Peace
By Bob Gersztyn
Easter marked the fifty-year anniversary of the peace symbol. It was first unveiled by British artist Gerald Holtom during a march from Trafalgar Square to Canterbury Cathedral in early April 1958, but it would be another decade before the crow’s-foot symbol (or “sign of the American chicken,” as the John Birchers used to call it) crossed the ocean to become the predominant symbol of the anti-war movement. READ MORE...
04.14.2008 | Comments(64)
Hillary Clinton Kills All Voters in Remaining Primary States
Asheville, N.C. — Hillary Clinton bolted from a political briefing in her hotel room late last night, snatched a gun from one of her Secret Service bodyguards, and went on a shooting rampage READ MORE...
04.01.2008 | Comments(20)
The World In Fits Over Fitna
Having spent some time around the movie business, I can attest that the most dreaded words you can hear are normally “Will you watch my short film?” READ MORE...
03.30.2008 | Comments(63)
Britney Spears Must Be Saved
(From the private email files of Thomas Nelson Publishing)
By Joe Bob Briggs
03.12.2008 | Comments(25)
Blessed Are The Swishy
(From the Pastoral Notes of Barack Obama)
By Joe Bob Briggs READ MORE...
03.07.2008 | Comments(118)Larry Norman: The Original Jesus Rocker Goes to Jesus
Much of the world scarcely noticed when Larry Norman passed away last Sunday at 2:45 a.m., but thousands of music makers, both Christian and non-, mourned and wept. READ MORE...
02.29.2008 | Comments(21)Jesus and Larry and Me
By Bob Gersztyn
Larry Norman, the godfather of Jesus Rock, always said he was just putting Jesus back into the music that Elvis Presley had taken out of the black churches. "Why should the devil have all the good music?" Larry would shout while pounding his piano, Jerry-Lee-Lewis style, searing guitars screaming behind him. READ MORE...
02.29.2008 | Comments(19)Loud Whispers from the Ends of the Earth
By John Bloom
Iona is a chilly, barren, salty, wind-whipped little island off the coast of western Scotland that seems almost entirely inhabited by the ghosts of madmen READ MORE...
02.26.2008 | Comments(12)