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The news does it!

By Rev. Charles Moreland | February 10, 2009 | Print This Post

 

One of my goals in aging is to keep my mind alert. I devote a portion of each day to acuity. To be mentally keen is a challenge.

To achieve this goal I discipline myself in reading, writing, and thoughtfulness. My first activity of each day, after walking our pet, Cassie, is to read the daily devotional from The Upper Room.  It’s a spiritual, mental and psychological lift.

Covers of Newsweek Magazine showing the filtering of news presented to American Citizens

I budget time to read the local paper. At the Athletic Club I often read while on the treadmill. That’s when I get started reading the weekly publication of Newsweek. «Read the rest of this article»

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Finding truth in the evening news …

By Rev. Charles Moreland | November 30, 2008 | Print This Post

 

I began my devotion to processing and keeping informed on current national and international events years ago with the daily watching of CBS news with Walter Cronkite, the most trusted reporter in the United States during his his reign. I believed, as others did, that his understanding and reporting of the news could be accepted as truth.

In the last two years, I gathered an analyzed the daily news from MSNBC. As if addicted, I find myself anticipating this daily newscast, which comes in on Channel 49 in Montgomery County. My keen understanding and interpretation of the news is influenced by MSNBC, where a trio of commentators — Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow — are welcomed into my home. They serve as commentators as well as reporters that provide insight into the news that I can find nowhere else.  «Read the rest of this article»

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Beware the Ghost of Reagan

By Bill Larson | May 5, 2007 | Print This Post

 

Rachel MaddowRachel Maddow demystifies the Republican fascination with all things Ronald Reagan, in Rachel Maddow’s Campaign Asylum. Rachel Maddow is the host of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio, which airs live on weekdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time.

Simi Valley and Reagan’s Tomb are the site of the first GOP presidential debate. She explains why voters should run screaming if a clone of Ronald Regan is ressurected for the 2008 election.

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