September 3, 2010: Was the Iraq War Right?

Was it worth it? Was it just? Did the good exceed the harm? William Galston and Michael Cromartie discuss the costs and consequences of the Iraq war as the US ends its combat mssion.

Kathleen Norris tells a story of a little boy who wrote a poem called "The Monster Who Was Sorry."  The poem begins with a confession: he doesn't like it when his father yells at him.  The monster's response is to throw his sister down the stairs, then to destroy his room, and finally to destroy the whole town.  The poem concludes: "Then I sit in my messy house and sa [...]

San Francisco Chronicle: Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8

The outlook for the legal defense of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, grew cloudier Thursday as a state appellate court refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a federal judge's ruling overturning the measure. [...]

I'm writing this in July shortly after our vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. We had a great week with our daughters, their husbands and the grandchildren. And then that was followed by a week of just hanging out. It was a nice time... ...except for backing into a police car. That was right after I ran two red lights. I'm writing this from jail... [...]

Matthew 28:18-20 (09-05-10)

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