By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:50 pm Filed Under: Barack Obama, Disasters, Floods of 2008, Poverty, Sacrifice, Suffering
What is Suffering?
The most traumatic place I’ve yet visited on this Earth is Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was there with some friends in 2005.
I know I’ve talked about it before. The awful things that were done to people during that war. The humiliation. The beatings. The dreadful murders of so many people. The intense fear and pain [...]
I make no bones about it: I’m a Conservative and a Republican. If I ever think think the Party is a lost cause, I could abandon it, but current circumstances don’t put me there. Not even close.
I read with some appreciation Cal Thomas’ column on this subject last week. His comments regarding the romanticism of [...]
I’ve had little time or space thus far for this topic, not because it lacks importance, but because I can only write so much. Today I’d like to seriously look at something that many people are reacting to with cynicism, humor, and contempt because of the person at the center of the topic, and as [...]