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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Higher Calling: Blogger Credentialed as Newsweek Reporter

  • Higher Calling: A woman is ordained to the Catholic priesthood. Not surprisingly, the hierarchy does not approve, by Karen Springen:
    Sept. 13, 2007 - Last week 25-year-old Jessica Rowley became one of about a dozen women nationwide to make a highly unusual career move: she was ordained a Catholic priest. Rowley’s ordination—which took place at Eden Theological Seminary, a progressive institution in Webster Groves, Mo.—is approved by the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, a group of churches that decline to recognize the authority of the pope but see themselves nevertheless as Catholic.
  • Jeff Miller announces his own Higher Calling:
    I have quite an announcement to make. I am now a reporter for Newsweek magazine! I always felt a call to be a reporter for Newsweek magazine so this is something very important for me. I can't tell you how thrilled I am at this news and the impact this has on my life and hopefully the lives of others.

    The hierarchy of Newsweek magazine though doesn't recognize my call to be a reporter for them. So I had to have reporter credentials given me by an Ecumenical magazine group that also see themselves nevertheless as Newsweek employees and don't recognize the authority of Newsweek's editors to make hiring decisions.

(Via Amy Welborn | Shaking Off Sleep). My heartfelt congratulations to Jeff Miller on his new vocation.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Fred Thompson to Run for President?

Run Fred Run! - Prof. Stephen Bainbridge offers a few reasons why he hopes to see former Senator-turned-actor Fred Thompson run for President on the GOP ticket -- among them:
Unlike say Hillary or Romney, he hasn't been planning to run for President ever since s/he got elected President of the 9th Grade class and the senior football players ran his/her underwear up the flagpole, as illustrated by his famous comment that "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
Here's a few more points in Thompson's favor:

He authored a piece for the National Review (March 15, 2007) titled: Gandhi's Way Isn't the American Way.

He took on Michael Moore.

And some facts are circulating concerning Fred Thompson's other, er, abilities (Source: Better Off Fred Jonah Goldberg (National Review June 1, 2007) and Frank Facts About Fred Thompson" IMAO:

  • Fred Thompson has on multiple occasions pronounced "nuclear" correctly.
  • Every night before going to sleep, Osama bin Laden checks under his bed for Fred Thompson.
  • Fred Thompson took over what was Al Gore's Senate seat, thereby dramatically reducing the Senate's carbon footprint. Fred Thompson then created carbon offset offsets by wastefully burning hippies.
  • Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator's heart and showing it to him before he died.
  • Fred Thompson vows not only to win in Iraq but also to forcefully free Vietnam from Communism, thus giving America a perfect win/loss record for wars again.
  • Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. There was no illegal immigration for a month.
Honest truth, this guy's a winner.

On a more serious note, The Roman Catholic Blog is discussing the matter of Fred Thompson & Abortion (he seems to have a solid pro-life legislative record and merited the disapproval of NARAL).

I loathe Giuliani and believe he is a disaster for the GOP; if you've been reading Catholics in the Public Square, you'll know I support and appreciate Senator Brownback, but I have to wonder if Brownback has what it takes to garner popular support and come out ahead? -- Still pretty early.

I'd so love to see Thompson go head to head against Hillary.

Update: For all things Fred, try the Fredipedia.

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