Reformed Chicks Blabbing

I’m speaking from experience here, don’t give you child a weird name: Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl. Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected…

OK, I spend all my time adding blogs to my Blogging Chicks blogroll and now my Christian Blogosphere blogroll trying to improve our Google, Technorati and TTLB ranks when I could have let others do the work for me like this blogger did. There are now all these blogs (5 at a time) that will…

Apparently, the country that stones women while their children are present had this to say about the family values of the west: He criticized Britain for deploying Leading Seaman Faye Turney, one of the 15 detainees, in the Gulf, pointing out that she is a woman with a child. “How can you justify seeing a…

When he puts his hand on the Bible and swears that he will uphold the constitution: “There is — you could make a case that articles of impeachment might be appropriate. But ladies and gentlemen, politics is the art of the possible, not the constitutional.” — Senate Judiciary Chairman Joe Biden (D-DE), quoted by The…

They’ve been “pardoned” by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. When I saw the email alert, I wondered how much it cost the British for the release of their people and then I read this: The Islamic Republic News Agency also reported that Iranian personnel would be allowed to meet with five Iranian men taken by U.S. forces late…

He may not be as big as Robertson or Dobson but it’s a start: The top rung of Republican presidential candidates has too many flaws for social conservatives to offer any candidate their full support, but former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) could be just the man to fill that hole, according to evangelical leader Richard…

When the Democrats are emphatic about something, watch out. That means they will shift their policy and no longer support it. Case in point (via). Oh, and here’s an explanation of the Democrat’s Iraq plan. Thanks, Joe Biden, it’s much clearer now (via). Tags: Democrats, Iraq war, Senate, Joe Biden

So, if you didn’t want to anger the Muslim community or appear insensitive but you wanted to prepare your kids in case they were held hostage by radical fundamentalists, what would you do? Use a different group of fundamentalists, of course: The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a…

Have you seen it yet? I’ve wanted to see it since we saw the trailer when we went to see The Bridge to Terabithia. We’ll be seeing it this week even though it didn’t get great reviews. Which I can’t understand because the trailer looks really good (I guess you can’t judge a movie by…

If you haven’t read Michael Totten’s article about his accidental meeting with a group of armed Iranian communists instead of the social democrats he was supposed to meet, go read it because it’s interesting and amusing (he met with them in Northern Iraq, they’re Kurds). Here’s an article about an American Christian living in Pakistan…

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