Morning Briefing
For May 23, 2014
The World Pierces InIn 1540, Hernando de Soto marched through Middle Georgia not far from where this column originates. Just down river from where I am in Macon, Georgia, de Soto performed the first baptism in North America on the banks of the Ocmulgee River. That river cuts a lazy path through Macon and Middle Georgia.
The Ocmulgee Indian natives, over time, migrated out of the area under force from the new natives, the Americans. Those new natives lived a quiet existence where rarely, like de Soto marching through, the outside world pierced in. When Sherman marched through in the Civil War, one house in Macon suffered damage from a stray cannonball.
Before Sherman arrived, Presbyterians built their church and towering steeple, which remained the highest point in Macon until the Catholics built their beautiful gingerbread house like church, St. Joseph’s. The Catholics laid early roots in the area. In 1871, five Sisters of Mercy started the Academy of the Sacred Heart Jesus, a school to teach Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish children. Their educational efforts preceded a public school system in the area. The school the Sisters of Mercy founded changed names to Mount de Sales Academy in honor of Saint Francis de Sales in 1876.
The world pierced in again in Middle Georgia at Mount de Sales Academy last week. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Tea party folks in Mississippi are being rounded up for being freaking idiots. My great regret is that we do not publicly flog people anymore because these people deserve it.
But as much as the NRSC might hype this story, they will overlook one big detail:
“Michael Guest, the district attorney for Madison and Rankin counties, told Simmons that he doesn’t believe anyone with the McDaniel campaign is involved.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Send In The Clowns: 84% of McDonald’s Protesters Were Not McDonald’s Employees
On Wednesday, the Service Employees International Union, as part of its four-year old plan to unionize the nation’s fast-food workers, launched a frontal assault on McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Oakbrook, Illinois.
During the event, over 100 protesters, as well SEIU boss and fast-food unionization architect Mary Kay Henry, were arrested. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Will Children be Banned From Praying at Their Graduation?
If angry atheists have their way, that’s exactly what will happen.
The American Humanist Association, an angry atheist group that peruses the country for a small town to attack in its attempt to eviscerate faith from public life, has sued a Greenville, South Carolina school over a 5th Grade graduation ceremony. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Obama and Hillary’s great Libyan adventure melts down
Obama’s great Libyan experiment is taking on the air of a geopolitical Chernobyl. As we speak, US forces are being assembled to evacuate American citizens from that country . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Will John Cornyn Unite his Faction of the Party Behind GOP Platform?
With some of the primaries behind us, many within the Republican Party are calling for a unity effort to help win back the Senate in the fall. Undoubtedly, we need to defeat Harry Reid, the worst leader of the Senate in modern history. But we also need to unite behind the Republican platform and not use that new GOP majority to promote Obama’s lame duck agenda. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
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