Tag Archives: Politics

Code Red Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Mark Ashley

Alert systems are put in place to give warnings.  In the wake of 9/11 the newly formed Department of Homeland Security instituted a five-level terror advisory scale: low, guarded, elevated, high, and severe.  Because that system proved to not be … Continue reading →

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Bullying the Chikin

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Mark Ashley

The past decade plus has brought too many reprehensible stories of bullying that have resulted in suicides and retaliatory killings.  As I’ve always understood it, a bully is stereotypically a big-mouthed brute who tries to rule the playground or the lunchroom … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Fallen

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Mark Ashley

It’s Memorial Day here in the USA.  We enjoyed our annual local parade with the high school marching band, the VFW, mounted police, emergency vehicles with sirens blaring, an active soldier who was the grand marshall, one lonely politician decked out in his … Continue reading →

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The Religious Right Gone Wrong

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Mark Ashley

A Moody Broadcast Network station in Texas recently dropped David Barton’s radio broadcast “Wallbuilders Live.”  The reason was his defense of Glenn Beck.  Three bits of information are important to understand this action. First, David Barton is an American evangelical … Continue reading →

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