An Open Letter To Frank Schaeffer’s Open Letters

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  March 9th at 06:08 PM  | 

Dear Frank Schaeffer‘s Open Letters: Hi, I’m Caleb Howe’s blog entries (hereafter referred to as “a blog”). Thanks for listening. I used to be an open letter (hereafter referred to as “the hacky crutch”) much like you. Eventually I had to change. Too many bad things happened over the years, and the hacky crutch was increasingly used for purposes I didn’t want to be a | Read More »

If it bleeds, it leads … right?

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  February 20th at 02:00 PM  | 

Have you ever heard of Ted Haggard? If you ever read blogs you have. He’s a recurring joke online, an underline to a meme. He’s a favorite bogeyman, a name trotted out to point at religious conservatives … J’accuse! Haggard cleans up in internet searches. His name is in lights on every left blog ever conceived by man or beast. There’s a documentary coming. His | Read More »

HuffPo’s Frank Schaeffer to Obama: Purge The Heretics

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  February 15th at 03:37 PM  | 

Much was made, during storied campaign 2008, of the notion that we are all one people, needlessly divided. That from the many would come the one. There is not a liberal America, and a conservative America, there is the United States of America, after all. Heal this nation, we heard. Make us one, they pleaded. A lovely sentimentality, that. And an utterly false affectation, of | Read More »