On the “Family Research Council Blog,” (www.frc.org), Tom McClusky asks the question, “What would you buy with a trillion dollars?”

The Republicans have a chance. Not that they deserve it. Not that they won’t blow it. Still, a chance — who’da thunk it back in those parched and yellow days of November 2008?

It never ceases to amaze me how a perfectly harmonious life can be thrown into disarray in an instant.

A phone call in the middle of the night pulls you out of what was a peaceful sleep and sends you God only know where. A knock at the front door and you open it. There, standing right in front of you, is a police officer or deputy sheriff just doing their job. Trust me when I say they have nothing but bad news to tell you, and if it’s at night, it’s really bad news.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was set up to combat fraudulent practices. The SEC’s website explains that “Ponzi schemes are a type of illegal pyramid scheme named for Charles Ponzi, who duped thousands of New England residents into investing in a postage stamp speculation scheme back in the 1920s.”

Dear Mary,
It’s been awhile since I’ve written you a real letter, but this will have to count. I just want you to know how much this election has meant to Daddy and me.

The central economic crisis of the next five years may not be the greed-induced worldwide depression in which we are now mired.

I have found the main troubles with governments are a lack of patience, aptitude and sincerity. We have all seen the memorable rush to action with horrible results. We have all seen the dreadful consequences of ignorance. And, yes, we have all witnessed the outcome of dishonest actions.

When Dixie Dew’s beloved babysitter up and went to heaven, I found myself in a quandary: What was I going to do about childcare when I traveled?

House Democrats passed a nearly trillion-dollar so-called stimulus bill last week at the urging of President Obama, but the spending may do little or nothing to get this economy moving again.

On Monday, Jan. 26, the Georgia House of Representatives convened for the sixth legislative day after adjourning for the previous week.

“May God bless you as you ponder these significant things in this significant time.”

In a few weeks on Feb. 25 we’ll celebrate “Ash Wednesday.” For those of us who use liturgical seasons to guide us through the church year, this will begin the season we call “Lent.”

Like many teens in the 1960s, I was in a band. Those were the days when a rhythm guitarist could play nearly any song if he knew the chords of G, C, and F.

President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: to “get things done.”

As Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday (Feb. 12) looms, evidence mounts: No way is all the furor over the teaching of evolution going to disappear, or even abate. Not in our own time, brothers and sisters.

Everyone is talking about how much money the government is spending, but very little attention is being paid to where they are spending it or what they are buying with it.

Mom used to say that it was our differences that made us stronger, and with five kids, she had a whole house full of differences to contend with on a daily basis. No wonder she was tired all the time. Of course, she’d usually say those comforting words as she cleaned and bandaged one of us up after yet another after school fight.

There’s a little game I invented to make history more palatable, first for myself, then for my own children. I was never an aficionada of dates and battles, although I’ve improved a lot since I was young, and at least one of my daughters became interested in political fiction as well as fact.

Now that Obama is the president, fasten your seat belts.

During his first year in office, and particularly during his first hundred days, we are about to witness the most prodigious output of legislation since 1981-2 (under Ronald Reagan), 1964-5 (under Lyndon Johnson), and 1933-36 (under Franklin Roosevelt).

I believe the greatest enemy of the Christian Church today is the Church itself. The history of the Christian Church has been a fractious one with new denominations peeling believers away in various directions. In fact, the institution of slavery in the United States created a first-class moral divide, leading to a segregated church up to the present day.

My brother-in-law, Rodney, the wizard of wisecracks in our family, was sitting at the island in my kitchen, watching as I put away food from a Sunday School get-together.

[Two weeks ago] the 2009 Georgia General Assembly was gaveled into session. The first day the entire body was sworn in by the chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.

As part of the University of Georgia’s Year 2000 millennial celebration, the University Libraries established the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. It was established as a public awards program and a permanent online exhibit honoring Georgia’s most influential writers.

President Obama’s campaign theme of ending politics as usual and creating a new bipartisanship that will get things done for the American people is about to be tested now that he has the power — or at least some of the power — to make it happen.

Here is what my George Mason University colleague Professor Richard Wagner wrote, which was published by Office of the House Republican Leader:

Answers to your questions about life, religion and the Bible

Answers to your questions about life, religion and the Bible

Barack Obama is now the President of the United States of America. It is my commitment and covenant to pray for him, his family, the Vice-President, and all who serve the current administration. It is an historic time in American history. It is also a time of increased danger for the most innocent, vulnerable, and voiceless Americans.

2009-2010 will rank with 1913-1914, 1933-1936, 1964-1965 and 1981-1982 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives.

What nobody is going to listen to during inauguration week is cynicism, or anything that savors thereof: the sound of pins pricking happy balloons, the minimizing tone of voice that says, “Ummm, HMMM, just you wait ...“

He left before we rolled out of bed and rarely returned back home in time for dinner. With a big house, a pretty wife, five kids and a green parakeet that ate hushpuppies off his head, my dad had it all together. I thought he knew all of the answers.

If making speeches is one of the tests of a President of the United States, then Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He has understood the varied constituencies, and the various hopes and fears he had to address. He said the kinds of things that all these constituencies wanted to hear.