Jeffress Speaks Truth, Well Sorta

“Do we want a candidate who is a good, moral person, or do we want a candidate who is a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ?” This is a question posed by Dr. Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church in his introduction of Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit. Wow! I always thought these […]

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Serial Addiction – It’s Killer

Ah, addiction — it’s a bitch. I’m exhausted this morning while I write this post because of it. I was up until six in the morning and had a breakfast scheduled with a friend at 9:30, so I got a whopping three hours of sleep. So, addiction you ask? Is it booze? Hard narcotics? No, […]

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Corporate Camps, Profit for Prisoners

I’ve been horrified for quite sometime at the privatization of prisons in this country. What I was unaware of is the privatization of immigration enforcement. “In the United States — with almost 400,000 annual detentions in 2010, up from 280,000 in 2005 — private companies now control nearly half of all detention beds, compared with […]

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