Cartoon – Artful Alienation
Author: Antarctica Journal
Jesse Jackson Jr – Misuse of Campaign Funds
Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. plead guilty this to spending $750,000 of campaign funds on luxury items for personal use, including furs, jewelry, and celebrity memorabilia. Jackson, 47, represented Illinois’s 2nd Congressional District for 17 years before taking a medical leave for bipolar disorder. He allegedly used campaign funds to buy such items as a $43,350 gold-plated Rolex watch, a […]
Read morePope Francis Quote – Freedom Is …
“Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, freedom is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and one another.” – Pope Francis
Read moreCartoon – WWII Farewell
Pope John Paul II Quote – Civilization Worthy Of The Human Person
“Each and every human person has been created in the “image and likeness” of the One who is the origin of all that Is. We have within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue. With these gifts, and with the help of God’s grace, we can build in the next millennium a civilization worthy of the human person, a true […]
Read morePoem – Carnival (By David Russell)
Carnival That peacock opulence, Swarming on strutting grime; That massed ecstasy, squeezing itself, Short-breathed, near suffocation; That sound-abandonment, seeming to plunge To deafness’s peace; Yet keeping those maimed faculties alive, Ever denying their last fulfilment. Maybe it’s only I and it, I, starting in the middle And it, commensurate with my idea Of my own size? Maybe I […]
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Armed Robberies
Percent increase in armed robberies at pharmacies since 2006: 81
Read moreWOMEN IN GOVERNMENT
Women accounted for a record 22% of legislators worldwide last year, according to the Interparliamentary Union.
Read moreGroucho Marx Quote – In Politics, Sincerity Is Everything
“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” – Groucho Marx
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