Stallion Cornell

Yesterday,out of the blue, a reader commented on a post made just before the 2008 election about the following video. You don't have to watch the video - indeed, I recommend you don't. Just know that it's a bunch of washed-up has-been celebrities praying to Barack Obama to save America and lower gas prices.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1Well, three ... Read more

Iwas giddy with excitement Tuesday night as I checked the Drudge Report before election returns came in. His headline was "Mitt takes Mississippi- Alabama still tight." Intrade had Mitt up to 87% likely to win in Mississippi, and Drudge's main photo was of a Mitt campaign rally, with the caption "South's New Favorite Son?"When the ... Read more

Soit seems that out brilliant state legislature has passed a bill that allows schools to stop teaching sex ed. From the Salt Lake Tribune:

"To replace the parent in the school setting, among people who we have no idea what their morals are, we have no ideas what their values are, yet we turn our

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Ihave a dilemma. Perhaps you can help me.This blog is getting more traffic than ever before, and all my newfound power is going to my head. As of now, I am a very big, important, influential person - the Soul of the Age, if you will - and soon, my mighty words will shape your ... Read more

RememberMichael Kinsley?I barely do, and, truthfully, I thought he was dead.But no, the former liberal half of CNN's Crossfire is still around, although he's not sitting across from Pat Buchanan yelling at people anymore. And just last week, he wrote a very thoughtful piece about Rush Limbaugh that, I think, ought to be the ... Read more

Andso it begins.Yesterday, a group of black pastors led by Rev. O’Neal Dozier issued a press release calling on Mitt Romney to "renounce his racist religion." They'll be holding a news conference on Monday morning to try and purge Mitt of his Mormonism in order to "foster and maintain good race relations here in America."Swell.Their ... Read more

Today,my "Stake President of the United States" post is featured on the front page of evangelicalsformitt.org. I love that site, and I even quoted them here long, long ago. I feel as if I have arrived! Certainly an exponentially large number of new readers have arrived, so maybe I ought to keep ... Read more

Thediscussion from yesterday's post continued on Facebook today, wherein my cousin lamented the fact that Brigham Young, because of his 19th Century racist views, could not possibly have been called of God as a prophet. That prompted another lengthy outburst from yours truly, an edited version of which I share below. ______________In every era of ... Read more

I've talked about my church's checkered racial track record on this blog before, but I suspect the issue will become increasingly interesting to the mainstream press as Mitt continues to plod his way toward the Republican nomination.So, like many Mormons, I read this article in the Washington Post with interest, and I found it to ... Read more

Myblog post about Mitt Romney's church service and its indication of his character has attracted a host of new visitors to this blog. Welcome! I hope you stick around. You may not, though, after reading this piece.Last month, I had occasion to spend some time with people in the LDS Church Public Affairs department. They ... Read more