New Year, New Things

Well 2008 is off and running. I have no idea where the time goes. It's seems like I blinked and Christmas and the New Year was gone.

I'm looking forward to the next 12 months with all of you. Between the blog and the radio show it's should be fun. I extend an open invite to all of you to email me ideas & suggestions for both.

My thanks go out to Jim Powers who came on board and has provided some great posts here. If any of you are interested in being a guest blogger email me. I'm always looking to add some well thought out content.

Things have been rapidly expanding. We began streaming the radio show. So now readers outside of western PA can tune into the show. We are live Mon-Fri 4-6pm ET. Just click the link at the top of the page to listen to the John & Stephanie Show.

I've begun posting selected articles to the John & Stephanie blog found on Wordfm.com.
Some of those will also be syndicated to Crosswalk.com.

Also, portions Powerblog! will now be carried on Townhall.com

I'm also happy to be assisting in the efforts of the Men's Catholic Fellowship of Pittsburgh. We have some exciting new programs that are being developed. One element is call "Battle Blog"
I'm hoping it will be a great meeting place of men.

So what does all this mean? As we close in on 100,000 readers, your comments will be noticed. Thought and ideas will be available to a much wider audience and I'm hoping to add other voices to the conversation.

I've always considered this a journey and in 2008 the journey continues. Many blessing to all of you in the new year.

SHEEHAN PROTESTS AT ROSE PARADE, FEW NOTICE

Story notes “The protesters were booed by parade watchers sitting in the grandstand. "This is not the occasion for this," said Mary Feichtel, 63, of Florida.”

AP

GAY DIVORCE CHALLENGES SYSTEM

From the story: In pretrial motions, both parents made the same argument to a judge: The children should be with me; I'm their mother. For years, family court judges leaned toward a maternal preference when it came to custody disputes. But what to do when both parents are women, or neither is?

Washington Post

LIBERALS UPSET WITH DEMOCRATS OVER JUDGES

Story claims “The rightward shift on the federal bench is likely to prove a lasting legacy of the Bush presidency, since many of these judges -- including his two Supreme Court appointees -- may serve for two more decades.”

LA Times

IOWA POLL: OBAMA WIDENS LEAD OVER HILLARY

Huckabee leads the GOP. (Desmoines Register)

Fred Barnes notes the similarities in the themes of Obama and Huckabee. (FOX News)

Another story looks at the spouses’ roles. (News and Observer) And Huckabee ripped Bush, joking that he hasn’t read the intelligence report for four years. (QC Times)

Michael Medved reviews the five GOP candidates who still have a shot. (Townhall)