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Discussing signs of hope and change, a blog inspired by the positive message of the Obama campaign and the new administration

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  • Why We Need to Support the President on Nov 19, 2009 in Obama religion democracy

    As a follow-up to my post below, here is a scary video about the rise of Christian fundamentalist threats to the President veiled in the prophetic language of the Bible. I agree with Frank Schaffer that the proper response to the sizable proportion o...

  • Sarah Palin and the End Times on Nov 18, 2009 in Israel Palin

    In an interview with Barbara Walters yesterday, Sarah Palin was asked whether she agreed with the Obama administration's position that Israel should curtail Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Her response:I disagree with the Obama admin...

  • Eschatology on Nov 18, 2009 in religion Israel Palin

    In an interview with Barbara Walters yesterday, Sarah Palin was asked whether she agreed with the Obama administration's position that Israel should curtail Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Her response:I disagree with the Obama admin...

  • New York is not afraid of terrorists. on Nov 14, 2009 in Guantanamo torture Al Qaeda

    Here is part of Congressman Jerry Nadler's statement on the Justice Department's decision finally to try some of the alleged 9/11 plotters in New York courts:New York is not afraid of terrorists, we want to confront them, we want to bring them to jus...

  • Too much information? on Nov 10, 2009 in CIA Al Qaeda intelligence

    Disclosures that Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood killings, may have had contact with a militant cleric in Yemen, and that he had posted inflammatory material on the Internet, have led many to wonder whether more could have been done t...

  • Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall on Nov 9, 2009 in recession Obama foreign policy Reagan Gorbachev

    There was an interesting op-ed piece by James Mann in the LA Times on Friday arguing that President Reagan's behind-the-scenes courting of President Gorbachev was much more important in causing the Berlin Wall to fall, than was Reagan's famous speech...

  • By the People on Nov 5, 2009 in Obama elections

    I was a little disappointed with the documentary "By the People" which premiered on HBO last night. Although the film did manage to capture some of the behind the scenes flavor of the Obama campaign, it did not show much going on behind the scenes t...