Highlights from Book Presentation

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PowerPoint Slides on Book

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KETV Channel 7 Story on Chip's Book

In case you missed it, this aired Christmas Eve.  I need space. I need space. I need space. Click here to buy.

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This Needs to Be Examined

The term "excessive force" is used in the label for this video. I will wait on a conclusion until I learn all the facts, but what I see and hear looks terrible.

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Don't Analyze It; Just Enjoy It!

Taxers and cutters and pols, O my! Regular KFAB listener and sometime KFAB caller L.A. provided this chuckler produced by a friend of hers. I suppose one could try to make connections between characters and personalities, but why bother? In a mayoral campaign that has become heavy and intense with an extra layer of unexpected controversy, let's briefly revel in some silliness. From left to right are Mayor Jim Suttle, State Senator Brad Ashford, small business owner and advocate Dave Nabity, City Councilwoman Jean Stothert, lawyer and former City Councilman Dan Welch.

Alliance Not Involved in Smearing Stothert

The Omaha Alliance for the Private Sector has nothing to do with the recent slams on Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jean Stothert.

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day

We're on the one road,
Sharing the one load,
We're on the road to God knows where.
We're on the one road,
It may be the wrong road,
But we're together now who cares?
North men, South men, comrades all,
Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Donegal.
We're on the one road swinging along,
Singing a soldier's song.

The Operative Word Is "Joy"

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. That's Latin for: I announce to you a great joy. It's how the introduction of a new pope begins. That's what you saw bubbling up in St. Peter's Square: pure joy. The guy on the balcony is as close as we get to God in this life. He's a sinner, but he's our link to Peter and thus to the One who commissioned Peter to lead the church. Viva il Papa.

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Pardon a Proud Papa

That's our son, Oto, on the right side of the picture, kneeling at the communion rail at the Mass celebrated by the cardinals before they entered the Sistine Chapel for the conclave on Tuesday. The picture was at www.demotix.com. I need some space space space space space.

We think that's Oto beneath the arrow. Only a mother's radar was able to detect it. The picture was at www.religionnews.com. . .. need space space space space space space.

Oto, wearing a blue jacket and waving an American flag, can be seen at 1:15 and 2:42. The video is from the Vatican Television Center.

Pope of Firsts (Our Son Was There!)

The first Francis. The first non-European. The first Latin American. The first Jesuit. I wonder if he intends to honor, invoke, and emulate Francis of Assisi or his Jesuit forebear, Francis Xavier. Maybe both.

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Stand with Rand

I hate the filibuster, but I loved U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) standing up for the Constitution.

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Hilarious Debt Video

Market Numbers Hide Truth

"We're the healthiest horse in the glue factory." That's Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss on KFAB today quoting former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) quoting fellow debt commission leader Erskine Bowles, former Clinton White House chief of staff and nationally prominent Democrat, on how robust financial market indicators can hide the true state of the nation's overall, long-term fiscal situation.

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R.I.P. Andrew Breitbart

I saw this speech live June 18, 2011, at the RightOnline convention in Minneapolis. I had dismissed the guy as a smart-aleck. I underestimated him. He died a year ago today. I wish he was still alive.