Like people, no country is all good and no country is all bad.  Great heroism can occur in the worst of times and great evils can happen among the most enlightened of peoples.  That said, the impact of some countries has been better than the impact of others.  Genghiz Khan’s empire comes to mind as an…

Anne has a podcast interview of Patrick McCollum’s religious freedom struggle here on Blog o’ Gnosis.  It’s worth your while as McCollum gives vastly more detail and depth to this issue than is available in a published format. The two-faced hypocrisy and nastiness of so many of the people at California’s Dept. of Corrections is…

UPDATE below John Yoo, whose illegal actions for George Bush have been defended by Obama’s so-called ‘Justice’ Department, has argued the President could legally order an entire village of civilians massacred.  Michael Isikoff at Newsweek caught the follow depravity in Mr. Yoo’s testimony to the Dept. of ‘Justice.’: 

The wonderful Pagan singer, Celia, came to Sonoma County yesterday.  While readers of this blog know I admire her work, we had never met.  However she had emailed me she would be singing at a meeting of Catholics concerned with social justice issue.  Perhaps I might want to come? I did.  I was not disappointed…

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