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What Would Reverend Barbie Do?
She’s smart, sassy, and now she’s sanctified.  Who am I talking about? Why, it’s Episcopal Priest Barbie! That’s right, fun and flirty Barbie trades her hip Malibu pad for mission furniture better suited to her life’s latest mission: the rector at St. Barbara’s by-the-sea in… Malibu. No matter the liturgical season, this pretty, peppy pastor is ready to go anywhere. From her exquisitely...
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April 9, 2010
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What Would Hippocrates Do?
Doctors are familiar with the Hippocratic Oath – a pledge taken by incoming physicians that they will practice medicine in an honorable way. However, one partisan urologist in Mount Dora, (a little town not far from Orlando, Florida), has allowed politics to intrude into his practice. Dr. Jack Cassell posted a sign on the front of his office that states: “If you...
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April 7, 2010
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“Always be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Like a few million other kids growing up in the fifties and sixties, I tuned in each week to watch the adventures of Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, and yes I was wearing my official Davy Crockett coonskin cap. Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter; Davy Crockett Goes to Congress; and Davy Crockett at the Alamo – I lapped ‘em allup each thrill-packed week on...
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April 5, 2010
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Mr. Jones and Mr. Youngs
During the 1920s, Americans enjoyed sports like never before, and why not when they could enjoy the likes of baseball’s Babe Ruth, boxing’s Jack Dempsey, football’s Red Grange, and tennis champ Bill Tilden. However, none exemplified the truest principles of sportsmanship better than Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones, Jr. During the 1925 U.S. Open, Jones’s ball ended up in the rough...
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April 2, 2010
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Congress Passes $8 Trillion Ethics Reform Bill
WASHINGTON – In a move that was described by freshman Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown as “the most extraordinary piece of legislation I’ve seen in my life on the hill,” the House approved a Senate version of a long delayed ethics reform measure. Early this morning, President Obama, with Vice-President Joe Biden at his side along with several House and Senate...
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April 1, 2010