Current Events Archive

  • My good friend Spencer Burke has launched theooze.tv today. Here’s the first ten-minute interview: Share

    TheOoze.TV hosts Shane Claiborne

    My good friend Spencer Burke has launched theooze.tv today. Here’s the first ten-minute interview: Share

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  • Have you ever had a premonition? Or what you believed to be a message to yourself or others about the future? Did you act on it? Did you deliver the...

    Beware the perils of prophecy

    Have you ever had a premonition? Or what you believed to be a message to yourself or others about the future? Did you act on it? Did you deliver the...

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  • Why not just skip the invocation? That’s my question. There was no way that President-elect Obama could not have known that picking Rick Warren would highly irritate (that’s putting it...

    The Politics of Division

    Why not just skip the invocation? That’s my question. There was no way that President-elect Obama could not have known that picking Rick Warren would highly irritate (that’s putting it...

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  • Last January I made three political predictions: 1. I predict that Barack Obama will not be the next president of the United States. 2. I predict that the next president...

    Okay, I missed the boat on my predictions…

    Last January I made three political predictions: 1. I predict that Barack Obama will not be the next president of the United States. 2. I predict that the next president...

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  • Author and pundit Thomas Friedman is surely capable of running Hewlett Packard and for that matter, probably has enough foreign policy experience to be vice president, certainly as much as...

    A new Resolution Trust Corporation…

    Author and pundit Thomas Friedman is surely capable of running Hewlett Packard and for that matter, probably has enough foreign policy experience to be vice president, certainly as much as...

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  • Clearly every media pundit is highly qualified to serve as vice president or president, just ask them and they will tell you. A recent op-ed piece I read pointed out...

    We don’t know what we don’t know…

    Clearly every media pundit is highly qualified to serve as vice president or president, just ask them and they will tell you. A recent op-ed piece I read pointed out...

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  • There are a lot of accusations flying in the presidential campaign. Obama sponsors sex education for kindergarteners. McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. Palin is a liar. Biden...

    Are the candidates liars?

    There are a lot of accusations flying in the presidential campaign. Obama sponsors sex education for kindergarteners. McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. Palin is a liar. Biden...

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  • Well, it’s been decided. That last thing that Americans want is a candidate in their 40s who lacks a long history of foreign policy experience and legislative accomplishments. We can’t...

    The argument for experience

    Well, it’s been decided. That last thing that Americans want is a candidate in their 40s who lacks a long history of foreign policy experience and legislative accomplishments. We can’t...

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  • Look, here’s the deal, sometimes I have a hard time sleeping. I think it’s a condition mostly related to gastro-intestinal problems from being overweight, but that’s neither here nor there....

    Craig Ferguson, American…

    Look, here’s the deal, sometimes I have a hard time sleeping. I think it’s a condition mostly related to gastro-intestinal problems from being overweight, but that’s neither here nor there....

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  • It’s become clear that running for public office is the most intrusive, privacy-robbing process in public life today. It’s worse than being the star of a hit situation comedy. It’s...

    Who can run for office? Not me…

    It’s become clear that running for public office is the most intrusive, privacy-robbing process in public life today. It’s worse than being the star of a hit situation comedy. It’s...

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