Tag archive: politics

On health care in Iraq

Health care – or “Obamacare” – is still a buzz word around here. Though having been out of the country for two months, and completely shutting myself off from American politics, I knew that the tension of the healthcare reform… continue reading »

Happy (belated) America Day from Iraq

It’s fun celebrating an American holiday abroad. I highly recommend it. I love that no one understood why we ran to the basement Ferdos market to find sparklers; or why we made a makeshift American flag and saluted to it.… continue reading »

Life in Iraq: education

Yesterday afternoon, Claire and I visited Zeba and Amir in their office, two floors below the Preemptive Love office. One of Zeba’s friends was at their shop and we conversed with him about womanhood in Iraq, life in Texas, PLC,… continue reading »

Title Track: The Unlikely Disciple

The end of last year, my sister Sam visited Indiana Wesleyan from Purdue. After she spent my last points at Wildcat and we settled down in the back corner of McConn, I began tutoring her in Photoshop. (Sam is not… continue reading »

To all the purple states.

I wrote this blog back in November, after Obama was elected. I don’t know why I never published it — it’s very clever. ;-) But with all this health care hoo-hah I decided to go ahead and publish it with… continue reading »

love.

When Jesus said “Love your neighbor as yourself.” We befriended the outcast. We served at soup kitchens. We volunteered for children’s church. We sent money oversees to Africa. We raked our neighbor’s leaves. We tithed. But when it comes to… continue reading »

Welp, I know who I’m voting for.

I just got settled into school, (and already have tons of stories to tell) but I honestly don’t want to waste a good, healthy blog on wildcat news. So you’ll just have to ask me in person. However, there was… continue reading »

Abortion and all that

Every summer I go to Pro-Life Music Festival in Warsaw to listen to amazing bands for free. I didn’t realize until last year that this whole festival was to endorse Pro-Life legislation (well, duh). The festival is very political. Very.… continue reading »

kill the inconvenient truth

[Another attempt to find myself politically. Here’s to being a left-winger. *Cheers!*] Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I’m on my dad’s 2000 IBM PC. Imagine what it was like to surf the web 8 years ago. Yes, it’s that bad. My dad,… continue reading »

who is number one.

I’m glad my view of politics have been shallow for the past few elections. In fifth grade we had “mock-elections” for the 2000 presidental campaign: Bush vs. Gore. I remember my social studies teacher made Bush sound like this amazing… continue reading »