ABC News: MYTH: More Foreign Aid Will End Global Poverty

ABC News: MYTH: More Foreign Aid Will End Global Poverty

My Father's House...

Gabcast! TheoCon #4

Parents Praise Child's Accomplishments As Unprecedented

Fairfax Virginia-Noah Shepard Harper stunned the experts last Saturday by earning his first stripe in his karate belt test. "No white belt, to my knowledge, has ever performed as well as my son did today" his father opined. "I watch a lot of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) on Spike TV and I can honestly say I think Noah could give Tito "Bad Boy" Ortiz a run for his money. Seriously."

His mother chimed in, "I'm so proud. He was a blur of punches and kicks. We're talking Tasmanian Devil here. I may have to take some self-defense classes before I send him to timeout again."

Noah now moves out of the preschool class to a new division-kindergarten. The current kindergarten division champion, Josh, was already talking trash: "it's one thing to dominate in preschool division. I mean, those guys are kids. Let's see how he does with the big boys."

Josh then excused himself to go to the potty.

Can Noah make it in the big leagues? Stay tuned.

Charitable Explanation

Note, I intend no offense to my non-church going friends-remember this article refers to averages

Nowhere is the divide in values more on display than in religion, the frontline in our so-called "culture war." And the relationship between religion and charity is nothing short of extraordinary. The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey indicates that Americans who weekly attend a house of worship are 25 percentage points more likely to give than people who go to church rarely or never. These religious folks also give nearly four times more dollars per year than secularists, on average, and volunteer more than twice as frequently

Charitable Explanation - WSJ.com

What Would Jesus Tax?

Grove City College - The Center for Vision and Values

Looking to '08

Gabcast! TheoCon #3 - Looking to '08

THE STRONG CONSERVATIVE: Terrorists Support Democrats

THE STRONG CONSERVATIVE: Terrorists Support Democrats

Notice he didn't say "Democrats support terrorists." That's different.

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Gabcast! TheoCon #2

Me in my wild and crazy days, courtesy of my brother Jon's MySpace page with the caption: "So not much has changed(& I'm not talking about the beer or the smoke"

Public Service Announcement: Democrats vote Wednesday

Due to the unusually high expected voter turnout this year, public officials are asking that Republicans vote Tuesday and Democrats vote Wednesday.

Free hummus will be served at the polls and every Democratic who votes Wednesday will receive a recyclable collector's edition of Fahrenheit 911 ;)

My Name is (Jonathan) Earl....

It was like a real-life episode of "My Name is Earl." I was helping my brother Jon (recently transplanted back to ol' Virginny) move into his apartment. We were figuring out hoe to secure the mattress to the top of the truck when dad suggested the twine we were planning to use was too thin..."just use this electrical cord!"

For some reason I got a real kick out of it. "Cue up the banjos! We's goin' UPTOWN!"

Halloween!