Does government take away from the church?
Charity Catholic professors, reports Fox News, have blasted Speaker of the House John Boehner for his proposed budget cuts. Those cuts may affect the elderly and poor in our midst, and these professors...
View ArticleLearning from the past
A friend and her husband designed the house of their dreams, scouted out land and bought the best lot they could find, then secured contractors. After clearing the land, the builders poured concrete...
View ArticleGreat contemporary speech for Rhetoric
If you are studying or teaching Rhetoric, this speech will make for some great discussion. I encourage you to save this one. It is passionate, articulate, focused, and uses ethics and logic quite well....
View ArticleMoving away from mediocre: Read good books
The only time I watched “19 Kids and Counting,” that TV show about the Duggars, I nearly choked. My daughter was interested in it, so I sat down with her and turned it on. They are a home school...
View ArticleRead my lips…period. The use of the emphatic in rhetoric
Sometimes speakers (in politics, religion, and other public venues) forget the power of their words to move an audience. Sometimes they capitalize on it. Words strung together to project a thought or...
View ArticleEngage the culture: study the news
On 9/11 all of America watched with a mixture of horror, outrage, and deep sadness the events that unfolded. My husband was stuck in another city on a business trip and could not get home because all...
View ArticleClouds of dust over a Super Bowl ad
When I see narrow-minded bigotry, I think of signs like this that presided over a shameful period in US history. I heard some of my own family members who agreed with that sentiment back in the 70s. It...
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