Very recently I attended the opening of the Jefferson Parish senate campaign office of Congressman Bill Cassidy, M.D.  This is the second time I’ve seen and heard Dr. Cassidy, and I have been thoroughly impressed both  times.Bill Cassidy is tall and slender and quite attractive.  His wife is poised, charming, slender and a physician too. …

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The Wall Street Journal reports on its Opinion Review and Outlook the following:  “The IRS–remember those jaunty folks?–announced Friday [June 14, 2014] that it can’t find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury.  And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill.  An agency spokesman blames a…

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This was written on May 7, 2014, while I was in Cuba, along with other members of my church, to assist with the installation of a water purification system.  This was my eighth such trip to Cuba. I am at the convent under renovation in Pinar del Rio.  We are doing living waters installation primarily…

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I believe just about everyone suffers from some type of internalized stigma – some much more than others, very much a matter of degree and the source of the stigma.  That does not mean that there aren’t many people with healthy self-esteem.  But many of these people, sometime in their life, experienced internalized stigma.  Overcoming…

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On our ultimate journey toward Heaven on Earth we must learn to shun selfishness.  But the reality is—like most things in life—the difference between selfishness and self-preservation is a matter of degree, rather than some absolute. We are each made of mind, body and a “little piece of God” (what others might call a soul).  Taking care…

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On May 25, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Opinion page about a speech that the highly respected and departing Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, made about Iraq.  Here is the final paragraph concerning Mr. Gates remarks:“Lo and behold, Mr. Gates is saying that Iraq is that model, and that even the Obama Administration now…

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India has a new prime minister, sixty-four year old Narendra Modi, whose party won the lower house of the Indian parliament outright, a feat not accomplished in thirty years.  He comes from a modest background, contrary to the caste system that has stymied India for so long. The Congress Party, which was soundly beaten, had…

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I just completed reading all The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal stories on the election just completed in the world’s largest democracy – India (1.2 billion citizens). What does that have to do with American graduates?  In India, the young people in particular came out in force against the anti-business, leftist party and instead overwhelmingly elected…

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A few months ago I attended a men’s retreat through my church.  Here is what I wrote one morning: I’m sitting by myself gazing at the calm, peaceful, serene waters affronting part of the family compound.  The grounds are beautiful and the birds – in this early morning – are chirping away, as if claiming…

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