http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists Ruth Ann Dailey's column en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 04:09:15 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208418-152-0.stm?cmpid=dailey.xml At Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama delivered a fascinating address, pointing out the shared values of the world's major religions while constantly referencing his particular Christian faith. One of the shared principles he cited repeatedly but grounded in "Jesus' teaching" was this familiar verse: "For unto whom much is given, much shall be required." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12030/1206940-152-0.stm?cmpid=dailey.xml To win the 2012 Republican nomination and have a decent chance against President Barack Obama in November, the eventual candidate will have to mollify and motivate three factions: the GOP establishment, the religious right and the tea party. Though the religious right is a wing of the GOP, the tea party most insistently is not; the two entities hold one another in mutual mistrust. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12023/1205369-152-0.stm?cmpid=dailey.xml There's a strange and wonderful place where big corporations and lone do-it-yourselfers, liberals and conservatives, city-dwellers and suburbanites, rich and poor can come together -- and do -- perhaps without ever realizing it: the aisles of a re-use-it center. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12016/1203866-152-0.stm?cmpid=dailey.xml If you've spent any amount of time online, you've undoubtedly been "rickrolled." For the uninitiated, rickrolling is an Internet bait-and-switch. You click on a link to something you want to see, but instead you get diverted to Rick Astley's 1987 music video "Never Gonna Give You Up": "Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you ..." Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500