Day: November 14, 2005

My first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage.

One would think that the problems surrounding Michael Brown — the Arabian-horse promoter who was made director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — would have tempered President Bush’s appetite for giving important government jobs to people whose chief qualifications are being good buddies, political supporters or just relatives of the president’s. But cronyism and nepotism seem to be thriving in Washington.

Voters tend to ignore their local school boards until the board does something outrageous, which the Dover, Pa., board did last year by requiring that all ninth-graders hear a prepared statement on intelligent design before starting their biology course.

Supermarkets that once held the hearts and wallets of American shoppers are fast losing their market.

A Wednesday night prayer meeting at the Fellowship of God’s Covenant People in Burlington, Ky., appears to be like those of many other small, Protestant churches.

They came from all over the country, their patches and ball caps revealing how far they’d traveled. Montana. Arizona. Tennessee. Connecticut. Pennsylvania. New York. New Jersey. Florida. Texas.