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What a Friend We Have in Jesus

...One of the trends that's really struck me over the past couple of years has been the systematic trashing of the public reputations of so many "conservative" institutions -- the Catholic Church (pederasty), corporations (Enronitis), Wall Street (hyper-Enronitis), the FBI and the CIA (9/11), even the Bill Bennett virtue franchise (stupidity and gambling, roughly in that order.)...

I remember remarking to a friend last summer -- during the worst of both the corporate and the Catholic scandals -- that the only two "conservative" institutions still standing, PR-wise, were the military and the White House. But unless destroying Saddam's demonic offspring really is a magic cure for the quagmire blues, they may not be on their feet much longer, either....