Helio, thanks for a lesson in elegance. True humility is a refreshing thing indeed and utterly rare.

It just seemed to read something like the praise John Edwards heaped on Dick Cheney for dealing so well with his lesbian daughter. There was no context for bringing up the topic, but it did serve to get the subject out there.

Again, my apologies for having misread your pure intent.

Interesting commentary…
Very telling…

Your comment reminds me of a story written by Hannah Hurnard about an ugly ephiphany she once experienced. It involved a dawning recognition that the group prayers for others that she was indulging in were nothing more than group gossip sessions gussied up in holy clothes….kinda like a heartfelt prayer undergirded with meanness.

OH, what a comment! Tip-o-the-hat to you heliotrope!

I am a father of a son and a daughter. I’ve had my “some what grown” daughter really mad at me because of the consequences of her not meeting my standard, nor her standard, her first year of college.

The situation with his oldest is, IMO, much worse. And, frankly, I thought it spoke to his character.

I’m serious, I hope he patched things up with his child. Family is important.

Sometimes a heart-felt prayer takes on the appearance of a political stinkbomb thrown into the crowd by a mudslinging hit-and-run opportunist.

*ROTFL*

I find it funny that you call her conservative, but other Black conservatives are calling her liberal. It’s just another data point in my thought that people use “conservative” and “liberal” and really don’t know the definition.

But that’s just me.

I hope J.C. Watts comes back to national politics when he gets his ministry up and running to where it doesn’t need him every day. But I understand his priorities have shifted.

I hope that means he has patched things up with his oldest child.

The first thing the far left points out is the discrepancy in the punishments for possession. I agree, there is one. However, whether it’s right or not is irrelevant.

I care nothing if someone gets 5 years or 30 years based on possessing that garbarge. Especially with intent to distribute.

Why do you have crack? Do you not know its an illegal drug? Don’t you know it leads to either death or prison? These people are selling death and destruction.

Instead of lowering the mandated sentencing for crack cocaine as the far left wants, we should instead raise the sentencing level for powder cocaine to the same level as crack cocaine.

I hope J.C. Watts comes back to national politics when he gets his ministry up and running to where it doesn’t need him every day. But I understand his priorities have shifted.

After my talk with Tavis, I saw Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Axelrod. Considering that his brother, Jim Axelrod, is a liberally biased political reporter at CBS News, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Turns out he’s a nice, soft-spoken……

The justification for this was that crack gives a more intense high being that it is smoked instead of snorted (which allegedly makes it more addictive), but crack is apparently less expensive than powder and more readily available. This makes crack more predominant in poor areas.

Another argument against the difference in sentencing is that crack is made from powder cocain.