The Holiday Season has past and now it’s time to inventory the damages to our finances. This time of year is always notorious for overspending and even increasing our credit card debt. Buying gifts for family and friends can add up to some major expenditures, even with the big holiday sales. If that isn’t enough, we spend extravagantly on food and the things that go with it to make everything just right. It is difficult enough staying within ones budget these days without the help of the holiday

Suppose one of your New Year’s resolutions is to become more active in peacemaking–the kind that includes work for justice, equality, and human rights as the positive basis for any long and durable peace. (I have never considered hiding injustice or cheap reconciliations to be true peacemaking, but “healing wounds lightly.” See Jer. 6:14.)  Congratulations! Both the world and your own neighborhoods are in great need of more peacemakers.  So, where do you sign up? It is important that you join a

Yesterday, I talked about where the bailout money might have gone. Bloomberg had some more thoughts on that topic in “Paulson Steals Show From The Grinch:”‘Tis the season to be jolly, but I’m rarely jolly under the best of circumstances. Just ask my family.This year, I don’t see there’s a lot to be jolly about. At first, I thought President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren, the most open-minded of evangelicals, to give the inaugural invocation was OK, even

Murray Newman laments what he expects to be the loss of prosecutorial discretion in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under the Lykos / Leitner regime. Murray misses the old days. Ah, those glorious Rosenthal / Siegler days, when prosecutors had discretion — discretion enough to run amok. . . when 29-year-old misdemeanor chiefs with no life experience were the ones providing critical ethical training to 25-year-old misdemeanor threes. As a result of all that discretion, and absent

After his third round of golf, it’s becoming apparent that President-elect Obama is not only determined to save the world, but more importantly, the game of golf. We can’t buy this kind of pub! Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune has fun analyzing the pool reporter’s round three notes. As highlighted by Larry Dorman in today’s New York Times, Golf Digest debuts its presidential rankings in the February issue due on stands Tuesday (I know you’ve been counting the days…it’s already on my newst

Remember these quotes? Take a stroll down Memory Lane: “Wait a minute. What did you just say? You’re predicting four dollar a gallon gas? … That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.” – George Dubya Bush, at a press conference (February 28th, 2008) “Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism, since I’m not talking about autism? A fraud, a racket. … You know what autism is? I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.

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NASCAR ace Carl Edwards stands up for the Car of Tomorrow Carl Edwards has shown his support for the often maligned Car of Tomorrow, admitting that its introduction has ‘raised the level’ in the NASCAR Sprint Cup. The 2008 campaign marked the first full year of competition for the CoT, with the new machine meant to be provide more passing opportunities and bring down costs as it would rid teams of the need to have different cars for different circuits on the calendar. However, the car has ha

Cardinal concerns December 31, 2008 It’s probably too soon to panic, but Rick Pitino may have cause for concern about Louisville’s perimeter shooting following a 56-55 loss to UNLV today at Freedom Hall. The No. 18 Cardinals (8-3) shot 30 percent at home. The Runnin’ Rebels (12-2), who are starting to emerge as one of the best teams in the West following this victory and recent win over Arizona, won despite the fact guard Wink Adams, their best player, sat this one with a strained abdominal