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John L. Smith new razorback coach for 9 months! Who is he?

April 23, 2012 – 2:19 pm

I am hearing that Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports and others (like CBS Sports) are claiming that John L. Smith is the new razorback football coach for at least 9 months. Bo Mattingly on 103.7 the buzz radio said a few moments ago that Smith knows all the coaches on the current staff in Fayetteville including the new coaches that came from Ohio State.

Who is he according to Wikipedia?

John L. Smith

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John L. Smith
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Arkansas Razorbacks
Conference SEC
Biographical details
Born (1948-11-15) November 15, 1948 (age 63)
Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.
Playing career
1968–1970 Weber State
Position(s) Linebacker, quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1971
1972–1976
1977–1981
1982–1985
1986
1987–1988
1989–1994
1995–1997
1998–2002
2003–2006
2009–2011
2012–present		 Weber State (GA)
Montana (assistant)
Nevada (DC)
Idaho (DC)
Wyoming (DC)
Washington State (DC)
Idaho
Utah State
Louisville
Michigan State
Arkansas (ST)
Weber State
Head coaching record
Overall 132–86 (.606)
Bowls 1–6
Tournaments 3–5 (I-AA playoffs)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 Big Sky (1989, 1992)
2 Big West (1996–1997)
2 Conference USA (2000–2001)
Awards
Idaho Athletics Hall of Fame (2001)
Big Ten Coach of the Year (2003)

John L. Smith (born November 15, 1948) is an American college football coach, currently the interim head coach at the University of Arkansas. He previously coached at Weber State University. He was previously the head coach at the University of Idaho (1989–1994), Utah State University (1995–1997), the University of Louisville (1998–2002), and Michigan State University (2003–2006). Entering the 2012 season, Smith has a career head coaching record of 132–86. (.606). On April 23rd, 2012, Smith was named head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team.

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[edit] Early years and playing career

Born in Idaho Falls in eastern Idaho and raised in nearby Iona, Smith lettered in football, basketball, and track at Bonneville High School, and graduated in 1967. He played college football at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, as both a linebacker and quarterback in the Big Sky, then a Division II conference. He graduated in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education.

[edit] Early coaching career

Smith began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Weber State, in 1971. For the next 17 seasons, Smith was an assistant coach, first at Montana for five seasons (1972–76) and then at Nevada (1977–81) for five more as the defensive coordinator. He then joined Dennis Erickson as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach for seven seasons at three schools: Idaho (1982–85), Wyoming (1986), and Washington State (1987–88). The middle initial “L” became part of his public moniker in 1982, due to another John Smith on the athletic staff at Idaho, John G. Smith, the equipment manager and former head baseball coach.[1]

[edit] Head coach

After serving as an assistant head coach for Dennis Erickson for seven seasons, Smith began his head coaching career in 1989 at Idaho, where he posted a 53–21 record (.716) in six seasons. Under his leadership, the Idaho Vandals won two Big Sky championships and made the 16-team NCAA Division I-AA playoffs five times, advancing to the national semifinals in 1993. Smith’s 53 wins are the most in school history. His starting salary at Idaho was under $60,000, but in 1991 he became the first UI coach to be granted a multi-year contract.[2]

Smith inherited an 11–2 team from Keith Gilbertson that had made the I-AA semifinals in 1988, and returned All-American quarterback in John Friesz. Despite losing the first two games of the 1989 season to Washington State and Portland State, Idaho went undefeated (8–0) in conference play, the only time in school history. The Vandals lost in the first round of the I-AA playoffs, and finished at 9–3. Friesz won the Walter Payton Award and was drafted in 1990 by the San Diego Chargers and spent a decade in the NFL. Smith’s next quarterback at Idaho was southpaw Doug Nussmeier, who threw for over 10,000 yards and won the Walter Payton Award in 1993; he was drafted in the fourth round by the New Orleans Saints in 1994.

In January 1995, he left Moscow to move up to Division I-A at Utah State in the Big West, with a five-year contract exceeding $100,000 per year.[3] He stayed in Logan with the Aggies for three seasons (16–18, .470), then went east to Louisville, agreeing to a five-year deal at $375,000 per year.[4] He put together a 41–21 record (.661) in five seasons (1998–2002), including five straight bowl appearances and consecutive Conference USA titles in 2000 and 2001. Under Smith’s tutelage, quarterback Dave Ragone was a three-time Conference USA player of the year (2000–02).

[edit] Michigan State

After the 2002 season, Smith was hired as the head coach at Michigan State, which created controversy because Smith was hired before Louisville’s bowl game that season, and he did not inform his Louisville players of the decision until halftime of the bowl game, which they lost to Marshall.

[edit] 2003

After opening his first season at Michigan State in 2003 with wins over Western Michigan and Rutgers, Smith’s team was unable to hold off a series of late game drives by WAC member Louisiana Tech, losing a 20–19 decision. The Spartans ended the regular season 8–4, and were then defeated by Nebraska, 17–3, in the 2003 Alamo Bowl, a game which also featured the injury of the Spartans’ anticipated star quarterback Drew Stanton while he was playing on special teams. Smith was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year in 2003.

[edit] 2004

The second game of the 2004 season was the second of a “home-and-home” series against Rutgers, which the Spartans lost in New Jersey, 19–14. The Spartans also lost to Notre Dame and dropped a three-overtime game against rival Michigan, but beat a top-10 ranked Wisconsin team, 49–14. The Spartans lost their final two games that season and did not receive a bowl invitation—the first time a Smith-coached team hadn’t gone to a bowl since 1997.

[edit] 2005

Michigan State began the 2005 season with a 4–0 record in non-conference play. However, the team was only able win one game in the Big Ten and finished the year 5–7, losing several game by more than 28 points. The Spartans were again unable to beat Michigan, losing 34–31 in the second straight overtime game between the two schools.

One of the most significant games of the season was against Ohio State. The Spartans had a brief 17–7 lead in the second quarter. With 24 seconds and no time outs remaining in the first half, Michigan State faced a second down and 12 yards to go at the Ohio State 17 yard-line. Michigan State tried a running play resulting in no gain. Facing third down, Michigan State likely could have easily spiked the ball to stop the clock. However, with the clock running, it was perceived by many fans and sports commentators that chaos reigned on the MSU sideline. The confusion resulted in Michigan State lining up on the field with only ten players. A field goal attempt was blocked, and returned by Ohio State for a touchdown to cut the lead to 17–14. In half-time comments on ABC, Smith blamed the coaching staff remarking “That’s a dang coaching mistake…the kids are playing their tail off, and the coaches are screwing it up!”[5]

Michigan State finished the season 5–7, missing out on a bowl bid for the second straight year.

[edit] 2006

Michigan State began 2006 with three wins and then suffered an infamous late-game loss against Notre Dame. The Spartans led 37–21 midway through the fourth quarter, but, despite a raging thunderstorm, the Irish rallied for a 40–37 victory.

The following week, Michigan State’s homecoming game, the Spartans were defeated 23–20 by an Illinois team that had not won a Big Ten game since 2004. After the game, players from both teams fought at midfield after several Illinois players tried to plant their flag at midfield of Spartan Stadium, a reference to actions taken by MSU players in the 2005 Notre Dame game in South Bend. In the post-game press conference, Smith admitted the coaches were having trouble motivating the players. Smith also slapped himself in the face jokingly as a reference to a claim by Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis who stated that he had been hit in the face during a sideline scrum earlier that season when his Fighting Irish played Michigan State.[citation needed]

Following another defeat to Michigan, Michigan State hosted and lost 38–7 to top-ranked Ohio State. At halftime, Spartan Stadium had mostly emptied, with a large portion of the remaining attendees being Ohio State fans.

MSU followed up those losses with a 41–38 win at Northwestern. The Spartans, down 38–3 in the middle of the third quarter, rallied for 38 unanswered points for the largest comeback in NCAA history. The Spartans then fell to Indiana the following week.

On November 1, Michigan State decided not to retain John L. Smith, and the remainder of his contract was bought out for $1.5 million.[6] Smith and his coaching staff stayed on the job through the end of the 2006 season. Michigan State finished 4–8 (1–7 in the Big Ten). Smith was replaced by Mark Dantonio, previously the head coach of Cincinnati on November 27.[7] Smith had a record of 22–26 (.458) in his four seasons at Michigan State.

Smith has compiled a record of 132–86 (.605) in his 18 years as a college head coach. 12 of his 18 teams have participated in postseason play, including seven straight from 1997–2003. Smith is one of 18 head coaches in college football history to take three different teams to bowl games. A defensive coach for most of his career, Smith is also known as one of the disciples of the spread offense, learned from Dennis Erickson, which he introduced at Michigan State.

[edit] Weber State

After two years of broadcasting, Smith returned to the sidelines in 2009 as the special teams coach at the University of Arkansas under head coach Bobby Petrino, his former assistant.[8] Following his third year at Arkansas, Smith left to lead his fifth Division I program at his alma mater, Weber State, an FCS program in the Big Sky Conference.[9] Smith succeeded Ron McBride, who retired after seven seasons with the Wildcats.[8]

[edit] Arkansas

On April 23, 2012, Smith was selected as the new head coach for the University of Arkansas following Bobby Petrino being fired.

[edit] Personal life, family, and honors

Smith married Diana Flora on August 15, 1970, and they have three children: Nicholas, Kayse, and Sam. He is the uncle of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith.

Smith has earned a reputation for his adventurous attitude and actions, including para-gliding with his children in Zermatt, Switzerland, climbing 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, flying in a T-38 Talon jet trainer in Texas at Randolph Air Force Base, skydiving from 14,000 feet over Greensburg, Indiana, and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, Spain.

In 2000 Sports Illustrated recognized Smith as one of Idaho‘s top 100 athletes of the 20th century. He was later inducted into the Idaho Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.

[edit] Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Idaho Vandals (Big Sky Conference) (1989–1994)
1989 Idaho 9–3 8–0 1st L NCAA Division I-AA First Round    
1990 Idaho 9–4 6–2 2nd L NCAA Division I-AA Quarterfinal    
1991 Idaho 6–5 4–4 T–4th      
1992 Idaho 9–2 6–1 1st L NCAA Division I-AA First Round    
1993 Idaho 11–3 5–2 T–2nd L NCAA Division I-AA Semifinal    
1994 Idaho 9–3 5–2 T–2nd L NCAA Division I-AA First Round    
Idaho: 53–20 34–11  
Utah State Aggies (Big West Conference) (1995–1997)
1995 Utah State 4–7 4–2 T–2nd      
1996 Utah State 6–5 4–1 T–1st      
1997 Utah State 6–6 4–1 T–1st L Humanitarian    
Utah State: 16–18 12–4  
Louisville Cardinals (Conference USA) (1998–2002)
1998 Louisville 7–5 4–2 3rd L Motor City    
1999 Louisville 7–5 4–2 T–2nd L Humanitarian    
2000 Louisville 9–3 6–1 1st L Liberty    
2001 Louisville 11–2 6–1 1st W Liberty 16 17
2002 Louisville 7–6 5–3 3rd L GMAC    
Louisville: 41–21 25–9  
Michigan State Spartans (Big Ten Conference) (2003–2006)
2003 Michigan State 8–5 5–3 T–4th L Alamo    
2004 Michigan State 5–7 4–4 T–5th      
2005 Michigan State 5–6 2–6 9th      
2006 Michigan State 4–8 1–7 T–10th      
Michigan State: 22–26 12–20  
Weber State Wildcats (Big Sky Conference) (2012–present)
2012 Weber State            
Weber State: 0-0    
Total: 132–86  
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Bud Foster new Arkansas football coach?

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Are we moving on? 

Next Arkansas Football Coach A Mystery, But Reportedly Has Contract

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KFSM’s Mike Irwin: Razorback Foundation has approved a contract.

The only widely rumored candidate, Bud Foster, won’t be the subject of either an Arkansas press conference or the one at Virginia Tech, which will reportedly mark the end of basketball coach Seth Greenberg’s time in Blacksburg. But now we’re talking about ACC basketball somehow. Many had wondered if Foster would be the Razorbacks hire, you see.

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Chuck Colson was pro-life

April 23, 2012 – 1:09 pm

Two-Minute Warning: Moral Laws, Real Consequences

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Most people can identify a number of the physical laws of the universe, but these same people would be stumped to identify the moral laws which also govern the universe. Colson is at his finest as he explains the reality of moral laws.

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Chuck Colson went to be with the Lord on Saturday afternoon April 21, 2012. Here is a portion of an article written about his pro-life views:

Colson became a Christian following his role in the Watergate scandal which saw him named as one of the Watergate Seven and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. After spending time in prison, Colson converted and has spent his life in the non-profit ministry ever since. He is founder and chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, which is the “Christian worldview thinking, teaching, and advocacy arm of” Prison Fellowship, and includes Colson’s daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint, now heard on more than one thousand radio outlets.

In his most recent column at LifeNews, Colson touted the October Baby pro-life film and he lamented the rise of infanticide before that.

“Many of our laws in this country are built upon the fantasy that birth, not existence, bestows a fetus with personhood. If you kill a newborn in the United States, as infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell did for decades, you go to jail. But just minutes prior, that same act of killing can be legal,” he wrote. “This is nonsense. I’m praying that articles from ethicists like Giubilini and Minerva will wake people up to the reality of what they’re justifying. If enough people start to get it, then it won’t matter what a few academic elites think. Legal abortion will crumble before the outcry of decent, moral people, just as it did when early Christians dared to speak out against infanticide and abortion in their time.”

“Tell your friends about this. Press people on it. If they’re not willing to condone infanticide, how can they favor abortion? Maybe they’ll be willing to admit that a person really is a person — no matter how small,” he concluded.

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400% increase in food stamps since 2000

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If welfare increases as much as it has in the last decade then it will ruin our country soon. Not only does it hurt the incentive to work since many get caught in the welfare trap, but we can no longer pay for increases like this one for the food stamp budget (up 400% since 2000).

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The number of Americans on food stamps (or, as it is now called, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is higher than ever before, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. Since 2007, rolls have grown by 70 percent. And participation rates are expected to increase over the next two years.

While some of the growth can be attributed to the recession, participation rates were steadily climbing prior to the recession. Since 2000, the number of Americans on food stamps has jumped by roughly 260 percent, from 17.2 million to 44.7 million in 2011.

Naturally, government spending on food stamps has also jumped, from approximately $20 billion in 2000 to a whopping $78 billion last year, a nearly 400 percent increase.

The growth in participation rates seems to be part of the federal government’s goal, as a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released just this month explains.

The food stamps program is just one part of an ever-expanding government welfare system that includes not only 12 food assistance welfare programs but a total of 79 federal welfare programs. These programs provide not only food assistance but cash, housing, energy and utility assistance, education services, child care, medical care, and so forth.

The total cost of these programs reached $927 billion last year. Welfare is now the fastest growing part of government spending, and despite welfare costs increasing 16-fold since the War on Poverty began in the 1960s—and total spending on cash, food, and housing assistance now twice the amount necessary to pull all Americans out of poverty—President Obama wants to spend more. Aggregate welfare costs are projected to reach over $1.5 trillion in 2022.

As Heritage senior fellow Robert Rector said last week at a House Budget Committee hearing, out of control welfare costs are contributing to “ruinous and unsustainable future budget deficits.”

To get spending under control, Congress can roll back current welfare spending to pre-recession levels (adjusted for inflation) once the current recession ends and then capping aggregate welfare spending at the rate of inflation going forward. Doing so would save American taxpayers more than $2.7 trillion during the first decade.

America’s growing welfare state is creating a system of increased dependence and contributing to a growing federal debt. Helping the poor should mean promoting individual freedom through self-reliance rather than creating dependence through an unsustainable government dole.

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Was Chuck Colson’s jailhouse conversion real?

April 23, 2012 – 10:13 am

Chuck Colson: 35 Years of Faith — CBN.com

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The Christian author and apologist shares his conversion to Christ following the Watergate scandal, his ministry with Prison Fellowship, and insights on the importance of a Christian worldview today.

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Many times people get involved in government and they let themselves make compromises with their own morality. Chuck Colson was definately guilty of that and he spent time in prison because of it. However, that was the best thing that ever happened to him since he found Christ there.

Many scoffed at his new conversion since he was a jailhouse conversion but 36 years later they are no longer doubting his convictions. One of those deep convictions concerned pro-life issues like banning partial birth abortions.

The infamous convicted Nixon adviser became famous for prison reform, evangelical-Catholic dialogue, and his Christian worldview.
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Charles Colson, respected evangelical leader and former President Nixon adviser, died Saturday afternoon at age 80 from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage.

Over the span of several decades, Colson became one of evangelicalism’s most influential voices within the movement and to the broader culture. Observers suggest Colson will likely be best remembered for his prison ministry, behind-the-scenes political involvement, work on evangelical and Catholic dialogue, and his cultural commentary.

In many ways, Colson’s life encapsulated the eclectic nature of evangelicalism. His example shaped how evangelicals would promote ministry and social justice, evangelism and ecumenicism, cultural and political engagement, radio and writing, and scholarship and discipleship.

“His demonization in the 1970s has been replaced by lionizations in the 2000s—at least among the nation’s 65 million evangelical Christians,” Jonathan Aitken wrote in his 2005 biography. Aitken portrayed Colson as an important but flawed figure in evangelicalism, “America’s best-known Christian leader after Billy Graham.”

Before his conversion to Christianity, Colson was described as an aggressive political mastermind who drank heavily, chain smoked, and smeared opponents. He served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 before he was indicted on Watergate-related charges, which led to a 7-month prison term. After his conversion experience, he published Born Again, helping popularize the term many evangelicals use to self-identify.

Colson’s public commitment to his faith drew initial skepticism from those who wondered whether he was attempting to profit from a conversion narrative. Criticism faded over time with his 30-plus years of commitment to prison ministry.

“The most important takeaway is that he was a specimen of God’s amazing grace, one of the most remarkable in modern times,” said Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. “Over time, he proved to the whole world that this is the real thing.”

Colson’s “born again” phrase began to catch on in mainstream culture. Before the 1976 election, a reporter asked Jimmy Carter if he was “born again.” “Yes, I am born again,” Carter said. Reporters took notice and began to analyze and popularize the phrase that attempted to capture the Christian conversion story of repentance, redemption, and spiritual re-birth.

The same year, national magazines deemed 1976 the “year of the evangelical,” the year conservative Christians took on the political scene.

Colson was a key adviser in the George W. Bush administration, according to Aitken’s biography. He was a confidant and adviser on faith-based issues such as human rights, the war in Sudan, persecution, AIDS in Africa, sex trafficking, prison reform, and partial birth abortion.

“Chuck’s influence was not limited to ‘What are evangelicals thinking?'” said Karl Rove, Bush’s deputy chief of staff. “He was willing to provide guidance on that, but he was more interested in, “Here’s what an evangelically-minded president ought to be concerned about in fulfillment of the admonition that ‘To much is given, much is expected.'”

President Bush publicly supported Colson’s work, asking Congress in his 2003 State of the Union address to allocate $300 million to help prisoners. His influence was not limited to politics, Rove said.

“In all of my dealings with him in the last 15-20 years, I found him to be one of the most kind and gentle and thoughtful human beings I’ve ever met,” Rove said. “His life was a witness to his deep faith who nurtured the faith of others in deep and profound ways.”

As Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson gained much of the media attention for their political involvement, Colson took a more backstage role.

“He stood out from the crowd because he had connections to elite society that most evangelical leaders lacked,” said Larry Eskridge, associate director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College. “In that way, he was a valuable addition to the fold simply because he knew people.”

As evangelicals negotiated political activism, they would call on Colson to give advice and make introductions, Eskridge said. “He never quite had an empire in the way that James Dobson or Jerry Falwell did,” Eskridge said. “He kind of fits the evangelical entrepreneur mold in the sense of how he took the bull by the horns and created Prison Fellowship out of pretty much nothing.”

Aiming to convert convicts into citizens, Prison Fellowship has successfully capitalized on church-based voluntarism.

“Chuck was a bridge builder,” said Jim Liske, CEO of Prison Fellowship. “He birthed an organization to empower the local church that continues to bring shalom to communities. He constantly looked for ways to help other organizations do the same thing.”

The ministry operates in 1,300 correctional facilities with about a $40 million budget and works with over 7,000 churches in the United States.

“His legacy will be a clear example of a person whose experience with Christian conversion evidenced itself in a clear and profound way,” said Michael Cromartie, vice president at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “He’s an example of a public figure whose conversion stuck and evidenced in ways that were socially important.”

Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree Ministry delivers thousands of Christmas gifts each year to children of inmates.

“Chuck enlarged and broadened evangelical outreach by emphasizing the inclusion of a strong biblically rooted justice component,” said Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Colson graduated from Brown University and earned a law degree from George Washington University before joining the Nixon administration. His personal life included some messy parts. Colson had three children with his first wife, Nancy Billings, whom he later divorced. In 1964, he married Patty Hughes, his wife of nearly 50 years. He has described his divorce as “the unhappiest and least attractive part of my life.” After Watergate, he served seven months in prison.

In his later years, Colson would note his relationship with his autistic grandson, Max. Colson wrote the prologue and epilogue to his daughter Emily Colson’s 2010 book Dancing With Max (Zondervan).

Colson’s cultural and political commentary reached millions of readers and listeners. His books, including his 1976 autobiography Born Again, have sold more than 25 million copies. His radio show BreakPoint reaches more than 1,200 outlets, and his Wilberforce Forum promotes Christian worldview thinking and teaching. In 1993, Colson won the Templeton Prize of $1 million for progress in religion. His award money, speaking fees, and royalties went to Prison Fellowship.

“He allowed a humbling period to define him and his whole posture to the culture,” said Eric Metaxas, who has written biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William Wilberforce. He took over for Colson on BreakPoint’s radio show after Colson fell ill. “One of the important things about Chuck is his commitment to worship God with our minds. As incredibly serious Chuck was about theology and evangelism, he brought those things into the public sphere.”

Colson was also known for his efforts in getting those from different backgrounds to collaborate. His personal life almost seemed to embody an evangelical-Catholic alliance. He was Southern Baptist with an admiration for John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, and Francis Schaeffer, while his wife, Patty, is Catholic. He collaborated with Richard John Neuhaus to launch Evangelicals and Catholics Together, which produced a 1994 statement that alienated Colson from some leaders over evangelical/Catholic differences.

“Chuck and Richard helped wave caricatures aside. Catholics saw in Chuck Colson somebody who was a serious, intellectual, thoughtful guy, not some hick or hillbilly,” said Robert George, a professor at Princeton University. “We’re certainly in much better shape than we were even 20 years ago.”

In 2009, Robert George, Timothy George, and Colson collaborated together to form the Manhattan Declaration, asking Christians to stick to their convictions, even if it means civil disobedience.

“He was willing to sacrifice influence and standing if he thought that what he was doing meant taking up his cross,” Robert George said. “It’s hard to envision a world without Chuck.”

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Jeff Long leaning against interim and hoping to name coach in days

April 23, 2012 – 6:36 am
 

Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino was fired after he admitted an “inappropriate relationship” with Jessica Dorrell.
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I earlier was told that Jeff Long was looking to hire an interim and it would be Tim Hooten. However, this article below indicates that Long is not leaning that way but will go with another coach in days. I think that Paul Petrino would be a great pick.

Gruden, Mariucci, and the Arkansas Coaching Soap Opera

The Arkansas coaching search continued today, as Jeff Long made an announcement regarding the status of the search. Long didn’t provide any new information, but did admit that he has been looking at prospects in and out of the program. He also mentioned that the search will continue through the weekend, and he hopes Razorback fans will focus on the festivities this weekend. Jeff is right this weekend should be about the student-athletes that have been working extremely hard preparing for a spring performance. I am sure that Long knows as well as any of us that will not be the case for most Hog fans.

Razorback fans have been unable to relax and enjoy spring football since the firing of Bobby Petrino. Naturally the fans are very impatiently waiting to find out which direction Long will go to lead a program that was thought to be in great hands by most everyone just a few short weeks ago. Arkansas fans want to hear a “can’t miss” name like Jon Gruden or Pete Carroll announced by Long, but both names have been shot down by numerous reports. Someone close to Jon Gruden said that Gruden was not a candidate, and that he thought Mariucci would be the next coach at Arkansas earlier today.

Chris Mortensen of ESPN, a well-respected journalist who is extremely familiar with the Razorbacks, has said that Mariucci will not be named coach. Mortensen seems to be confident that he knows what is going on, and he claims all the reports he has heard are false. The more info that comes out keeps pointing to the fact that Long likely will not choose an interim coach. He believes interims are generally unsuccessful on the field, and the data seems to support that fact. So if Long is indeed going to hire a coach and all the names have been false as Mortensen believes, it makes you wonder where Long is looking.

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Heritage Foundation salutes Chuck Colson

April 23, 2012 – 6:00 am

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Chuck Colson talks about civil disobedience and cases where Christians may need to practice it. Drawing on the Manhattan Declaration, which refers to civil disobedience as a possibility (if government encroaches too much on religious freedom), Colson also brings in Dr. Timothy George, a co-drafter of that document. Mr. Colson also highly recommends you read T.M. Moore’s,

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I read this tribute from the Heritage Foundation:

Ed Feulner

April 21, 2012 at 6:59 pm

We at Heritage were saddened to learn of the death of Christian leader, cultural commentator and former White House counselor Charles W. “Chuck” Colson.

America is the land of second chances — and few men have made more of theirs than Chuck Colson did. For in addition to loving and serving his country, the former Marine captain and “President’s hatchetman” came to love and serve a God of second chances.

As an author, speaker and laborer in the vineyard, Chuck spent the past four decades encouraging others to escape poverty, addiction, hopelessness and dependence on government — and to embrace life and liberty. Through his Prison Fellowship Ministries, at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and in partnership with countless allies — including Heritage on our “Seek Social Justice” project — it truly can be said that Chuck did the Lord’s work.

His was an unlikely, amazing journey of redemption. We, like so many others, will miss his cheerful, winsome presence on the battlefields and the mission fields.

Well done, Chuck. We’re lifting you, Patty and the entire Colson family in our prayers.

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Mike Wallace 1958 interview of Salvador Dali (Part 2)

April 23, 2012 – 5:44 am
There was a very interesting interview with Dali by Mike Wallace. Here are the video clips and transcript below:
WALLACE: …in religion. Well now I spoke with you about a year ago and we talked about religion, and you said that as the years go by,you embrace Roman Catholicism more and more with your mind but not yet completely with your heart.DALI: This is true,WALLACE: Why not?DALI: Because…perhaps it is my early intellectual training and information. But now every day is more approach of this real feeling of religion. Just one month ago– is one tremendous operation of appendix – a broken appendix. After this operation becoming three times more religious than before.

WALLACE: How old are you Dali?

DALI: Never remember exactly, but 54 or 53 or something.

WALLACE: Are you formally involved with your religion? Do you go to church a good deal – do you pray – do you….

DALI: Every day more, but is no sufficient…

WALLACE: Not sufficient….Have you ever had a supernatural vision?

DALI: Visionary things – but no supernatural.

WALLACE: No supernatural. An article about you – you mention your fear of death. An article about you in Life magazine once said that you’re afraid of almost everything from ocean liners to grasshoppers. The article said you won’t buy shoes because you don’t like to take off your shoes in public. And that when you go out you carry a little piece of Spanish driftwood which you keep to ward off evil spells.

DALI: Yes, because remind very very superstitious but this is- I’m sure is is common of every Spanish people, you know. Spanish people is very superstitious.

WALLACE: Do you know anything about politics at all? You say you don’t care about them. Do you know anything about them? Do you know, for instance who the prime minister of Great Britain is?

DALI: Yes, but no – not particularly care of this. Because, for me the important thing is look – the philosophical event of every moment. And now is absolutely sure for instance, monarchy is restored in Spain very shortly.

WALLACE: You think it will be?

DALI: Prince Juan Carlos and Franco agree on its restoration. Is absolutely convincing the monarchy coming back in France very shortly after one military mayor or perhaps one De Gaulle or another….

WALLACE: Do you know – do you know who the Vice President of the United States is? Can you name him…

DALI: Mr. Nixon. Yes, yes – but, but what is possible now – what is possible perhaps tomorrow you put this in quick question and…

WALLACE: And you will answer… What do you enjoy doing most? Do you like to talk, to paint, to eat, to think? What, what do you like to spend your time doing, Dali?

DALI: My manner of expend my time – is the more joy, the more delightful is becoming every day – a little more – Dali.

WALLACE: A little more Dali.

DALI: Because in the beginning of my life, you remember in like at becoming Napoleon…

WALLACE: First you wanted to be a cook – first you waited to be a cook, then you wanted to be a Napoleon.

DALI: Cook and woman – one woman cooking.

WALLACE: You wanted to be a woman, cooking?

DALI: Exactly … a woman cooking. Second, like of becoming Napoleon.

WALLACE: Napoleon.

DALI: A little one like it becoming Dali. And now is every day more Dali.

WALLACE: In a moment I’d like to ask you about an extraordinary power which you claim that you have. You’ve written that you can remember your thoughts and your feelings before you were born.

And I’d like to know what those thoughts and feelings were. And we’ll get Salvador Dali’s answer in just sixty seconds.

(COMMERCIAL)

WALLACE: Now then, Dali – you said that you can remember not only things that happened to you in your infancy, but even your feelings before you were born. What were they? What did you think about? What did you feel?

DALI: Well I remember very clearly many mansions. How so – not only in black and white but in glorious technicolor….technicolor.

WALLACE: I see, and what specifically.. What were some of these things?

DALI: At some phosphorous and x-luminous-x…..I told these visions to Doctor Freud in London. Freud tell me that it is absolutely true – is the region of intra-uterine memories. Probably my position – fetal position, my pupils is very hurt by my hands. Depend on my position.

WALLACE: Was it – well, what was it like? Was it, was it pleasant before you were born?

DALI: Ah – it was completely paradise.

WALLACE: Paradise…

DALI: From this moment the more divine nature – in the moment of born is the moment of the paradise is lost. This is an ethereal …

WALLACE: Well, under those circumstances I find it difficult to understand your fear of death. If the moment of being born was paradise-lost, perhaps death, for you will be paradise-regained. And therefore I would think that you would….

DALI: This is my hope. But is not absolutely sure. This is the trouble. You see, the death is again the regain of this paradise – this is excellent, but is not, not sure.

WALLACE: Do you, do you enjoy yourself as you live. Do you like yourself? You think – you say that you are a genius. Certainly you have had…

DALI: I enjoy my life every day more.

WALLACE: You do…

DALI: Every week more. Because of Sir Dali – and my admiration for Dali is becoming tremendous.

WALLACE: Yes, What kind of dreams do you have? What are they about, Dali?

DALI: Every time is very agreeable and creative. The last dreams is about the anti-matter angels. Perhaps for five months only dream about archangels, angels, kings and the most beautiful spectacular.

WALLACE: You seem to be a mild-mannered man. Are you?

DALI: I don’t understand – mild?

WALLACE: Are you, are you a mild man? Are you a pleasant man to deal with? Are you a friendly man? You seem to be a mild man.

DALI: Everybody love Dali very much.

WALLACE: Everybody loves Dali.

DALI: But they pick on him.

WALLACE: But your paintings – they’re frequently violent. And you’ve written, that in your private life you have had sudden impulses to injure people. As a child you kicked people – you threw a friend off a rocky ledge. As an adult you confessed that you once kicked a legless beggar along the street.

DALI: Exactly. But this is my adolescence period. Now becoming much more quiet in these kind of sadistic things.

WALLACE: Yes…

DALI: As a contrary – after my religious feelings becoming more strong – these sadistic things of my adolescence disappeared almost completely.

WALLACE: Is that so? And, and when you were a young man, too, you used to try to hurt – you were masochistic as well as sadistic. You used to try to hurt yourself…you’d bind your head until it hurt, because you felt that you could be more creative that way. You do not need that…..

DALI: No – now every of this has disappear because every of my libido now is simply made in the religion and the mysticism.

WALLACE: Well, there’s one story about yourself I’d like to ask you about before you go. When you were courting your wife, Gala you did an unusual thing. As you’ve described it, you smeared your body with your own blood from a cut. You tore your clothes and then you rubbed a jar of evil-smelling fish glue all over yourself. And you planned to present yourself this way in front of your future wife. Why did you do that?

DALI: Because in this moment of weakness in this moment Dali is true is almost crazy before met Gala. My, my brain is very close of one sick pathologic brain.

WALLACE: Your brain, yes…

DALI: In this moment liked seduce Gala in the most terrific manner. I believe from the smell is a more attractive manner for seduce Gala. Gala becoming in love with me appears as probably the real …Gala created the real mysticism or the real classicist of my adult life.

WALLACE: And you have been married now to Gala for how many years?

DALI: Oh perhaps 20 or more, but is still in love with Gala – more than in the beginning. That is something that nobody believe. Perhaps – Dali never make love avec one other woman than Gala.

WALLACE: In 20 years.

DALI: And the people never believe because – everybody….

WALLACE: Why – why shouldn’t we believe? It’s the most sensible thing in the world.

DALI: Yes, but there is no… you should believe – it’s very frequent. But the other people don’t think it’s very exceptional.

WALLACE: Well I don’t think perhaps as exceptional as…

DALI: And now my obsession is the chastity, because….

WALLACE: Chastity…

DALI: …is more important for religious belief.

WALLACE: Dali, I certainly thank you for coming and spending this time. I’m looking forward to the publication of your new book, “Dali” which will be published in the Fall and I understand will have a good many color plates of your paintings in it. Thank you Dali.

DALI: Merci.

WALLACE: To those who raise eyebrows or look down their noses at him, Salvador Dali bristles his remarkable moustache with equal disdain. As he puts it, “I cannot understand why human beings should be so little individualized. Why they should behave with such great collective uniformity.” He says, “I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.” I’ll be back in a moment with a special announcement about future plans.

(COMMERCIAL)

WALLACE: Tonight’s interview ends my series which started a year ago for the Philip Morris Company, the makers of Philip Morris, Parliament, and Marlboro cigarettes and I want to thank the Philip Morris Company, sincerely, for helping me to bring you these programs.

WALLACE: Next Sunday evening – next Sunday evening at ten o’clock Eastern Daylight Saving Time, on many of these stations, I’ll start a new interview series devoted to the theme of Freedom and Survival. The series will be produced in cooperation with the Fund for the Republic and will be designed to encourage public discussion of freedom and justice. We’re going to talk about the problems of the individual in his relationship to big government, big business, and big labor.

WALLACE: We’re going to examine the growing power of political parties and pressure groups, we’ll talk about the responsibility of our mass media…newspapers, magazines, motion pictures and television. We’ll discuss these issues with such men as Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, Aldous Huxley, author of “Brave New World”, industrialist Cyrus Eaton. Next Sunday night on the first program, we’ll open the series with an examination of religious skepticism.

WALLACE: Of the conflict between church and state, of religion and morality in American life. Our guest, you see him behind me, will be one of the world’s leading religious thinkers, the Protestant theologian, Doctor Reinhold Niebuhr. We’ll ask Doctor Niebuhr why he charges that our current religious revival is essentially meaningless. We’ll find out why Doctor Niebuhr says that religion can never abolish injustice and evil in society. That’s next Sunday at ten on many of these stations. Until then, Mike Wallace – goodnight.

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“Music Monday” Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs on Beverly Hillbillies

April 23, 2012 – 5:35 am

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An award to the person who cut spending by our federal governement the most ($47)

April 23, 2012 – 5:16 am

A funny carton.

In recent years, taxpayers have been victimized by huge expansions in the burden of government spending. Among the highlights (lowlights would be a much better word):

With all that misery and failure, you would think people would be happy to learn that some government employees are trying to save money. So enjoy a laugh about this cartoon.

Sadly, the cartoon isn’t accurate, even by standards of parody. The agents were trying to save their own money by ripping off the escort. If they were using taxpayer money, they probably would have paid twice the going rate.

But it’s still funny, so enjoy. And if you appreciate political humor about Colombian hookers, check out this Bill Clinton post from a few days ago.

But if you refuse to be distracted by humor and would rather focus on reckless and wasteful spending, then you should watch this Rahn Curve video to understand the economic damage of big government.

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