January 2004

Is Man’s Search for Extraterrestrial Life Futile?

January 15, 2004

Spirit, a robot rover, landed on Mars 12 days ago. It’s truly amazing that we’ve got a mechanical device up there rolling around a dry planet…looking at rocks? Oh right, the purpose is to find evidence of “life.” Man’s “accomplishments” are probably very humorous to God. Billions of dollars spent to find out if life [...]

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Illegal Immigration

January 14, 2004

I’ve been avoiding the subject of President Bush’s plan to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. if they took jobs Americans don’t want. I’m torn between criticizing it as an American and the view of it from a Christian perspective. I’d heard rumors about Bush’s plan a month ago, and I wrote a [...]

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Message To My Regular Commenters

January 13, 2004

To my regular readers and commenters, you may notice that the comment count below all posts — even the archives — is now “0.” I’ve added a new system temporarily because the guy who runs my other commenting system is having problems with his account and the server is down. The old comments are still [...]

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No Comments?

January 12, 2004

It seems the Blog Speak (my commenting system) server is down for the moment. That’s why the “comments” feature below the posts has disappeared.

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A Cultural Wasteland

January 12, 2004

With the illegitimacy rate in the black community at 70 percent, Hollywood sees fit to put out tripe like “My Baby’s Daddy.” And parents who let their children see this garbage should be ashamed, especially black parents. In the black community it’s become somewhat of a trend (and joke) to refer to one’s illegitimate child’s [...]

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Radio Interview: Me And My Big Mouth!

January 8, 2004

I’ve always talked a lot. When I was a toddler, my favorite question was “Why?” Why this, why that. My mother said she always had to have an answer ready for her motor-mouth first-born. Now here I am, 30-something years later, getting invitations to do radio shows. About two hours ago, I was live, on [...]

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Check out BlackElectorate.com

January 8, 2004

If you’re looking for a good resource for articles on black issues, check out BlackElectorate, which linked to my latest column on blacks and Republicans (and posted my homemade headshot!). The editor published one of my early op-ed efforts last year, “Practice What You Preach, Mr. [Julian] Bond.”

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Courting the Black Vote? Why it Won’t Work

January 7, 2004

My latest column: Justifiably confident going into the election cycle, Republicans have announced they hope to win 25 percent of the black vote. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has great expectations. “If we get African American votes, [the Democrats] are in deep trouble,” he told the Washington Post. Not just any trouble. Deep [...]

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Smile! You’re On Candid Camera…

January 6, 2004

Why is this news? Shouldn’t this have been done all along? “U.S. Taking Photos and Fingerprints Of Visitors” The United States began fingerprinting and photographing foreigners arriving at U.S. airports and ports yesterday in an effort to track down wanted criminals and suspected terrorists and identify visitors who overstay visas… The program has attracted a [...]

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The 1980s AIDS Scare

January 4, 2004

Michael J. Bowers, a copy editor and page designer at a suburban Chicago newspaper called The Star, wrote a great piece today called, “Global warming: The media falling for a tale of gloom.” He writes about the overblown heterosexual AIDS scare in the 1980s and how the media betrays its bias by the way it [...]

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Window Dressing

January 2, 2004

Since I began my political column over a year ago, I thought I had to decide whether it needed to be political or “Christian.” I’m only now realizing it’s not a matter of politics vs. religion. As I live my faith, my attitudes should reflect my beliefs. Period. For example, while I believe that low-income [...]

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