Long a candidate with more respect than money or momentum, John McCain had a very good weekend, garnering endorsements in the GOP presidential race not only from the Des Moines Register and the Boston Globe but also from former Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman, now the independent Democratic senator from Connecticut. “On all the issues, you’re never going to do anything about them unless you have a leader who can break through the partisan gridlock,†Lieberman said. “The status quo in Washington is not working.â€
On the Democratic side, the Des Moines Register endorsed Hillary Clinton and the Boston Globe endorsed Barack Obama.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
“Mitt Romney is campaigning on his record as governor; yet he has become unrecognizable to the citizens who voted him into office,†writes Jane Swift, a Republican who was acting Massachusetts governor from 2001 to 2003 and is now a supporter of John McCain. She cites Romney’s evaporated support for gay rights, an assault weapons ban, the “morning-after pill†and Roe v. Wade, and takes offense at how Romney now uses Massachusetts as the butt of jokes. And if he became the GOP nominee, she concludes, “Romney would have to tack back toward the middle — where most American voters comfortably sit — in order to win. That might just be a flip-flop-flap.â€
Posted by Rhonda Holman
Credit the New York Archdiocese for trying to avert more priest/altar boy scandals — though it’s sad it had to come to this. The church recently released a coloring book for young parishioners called “Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic.â€
The book includes a page featuring a young altar boy (with a priest waving in the background) being told by an angel, “For safety’s sake, a child and an adult shouldn’t be alone in a closed room together. If a child and an adult happen to be alone, someone should know where they are and the door should be open or have a big window in it.â€
Posted by Kristin Mehler
The latest Summary of Kansas Vital Statistics supports those calls for bans on public smoking locally and statewide: Chronic lower respiratory disease (including emphysema, asthma and bronchitis) nosed cerebrovascular disease (the cause of strokes) out of the No. 3 spot among top killers in Kansas last year, behind heart disease and cancer. It was the first change in the top three in 69 years. “That makes tobacco use the leading underlying cause of death in Kansas,†said Ghazala Perveen, director of science and surveillance in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Office of Health Promotion. True, the death rate from heart disease has declined 22.7 percent since 1999, but a recent national report found that over the past year, the number of Kansans who smoke rose from 17.8 to 20 percent of the population. More smokers now would seem to mean more smoking-related deaths later.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
The following satirical headlines come from borowitzreport.com:
IN SPEECH ON RELIGION, OBAMA EXPLAINS HIS FAITH In OPRAH; Calls Belief in Talk Show Hostess a “Personal Matter’
KIM JONG IL KICKS IRAN OUT OF AXIS OF EVIL; Nukeless Nation ‘Not Evil Enough,’ Says Korean Madman
HUCKABEE CHOOSES JESUS AS RUNNING MATE; Move to Shore Up Evangelical Base
LOU DOBBS’ HEAD EXPLODES; CNN Anchor Continues Talking
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