A major argument against the government taking over Americans’ health care is competence, the fear that the government is just not competent enough to supervise such an important part of life. Here is an example: The IRS processed more than 230 million tax returns last
My home state of Oklahoma has passed–and overridden a veto of–some strong anti-abortion laws: The Oklahoma Legislature voted Tuesday to override the governor’s vetoes of two abortion measures, one of which requires women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the
We’re in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Our latest granddaughter, Evangeline, was baptized. And then last night was “call night” at the seminary, where our son-in-law received his first call. (Over a third of his class–22 pastoral candidates– didn’t get one! This, despite the alarm sent out
I heard Matt Harrison at the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions meeting I attended, and now here at the call service in Ft. Wayne I heard President Kieschnick. Rev. Harrison is running against President Kieschnick for synodical president, and surprised everyone by scoring a huge
Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants, seeking them out and sending them back. Now the state is being vilified, condemned by Democrats like President Obama as well as Republicans like Tom Ridge. The state of California is threatening to boycott all
During the Cold War, the USA started media ventures such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America to broadcast an American view of the world to countries behind the Iron Curtain. Now still-communist China is doing the same thing, Already China has a huge
For the problems in America’s schools, I do not blame the students, or their parents, or even the culture. I blame university education departments. They constantly spin our theories and turn out teachers trained in implementing them. But they tend to be oblivious that many
How about this for a defiant, death-defying public confession of faith? The Christians of northern Iraq have chosen to defy mounting attacks by extremists by erecting a statue of Jesus modelled on the giant Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture is only
The Swedish dissident pastor Fredrik Sidenvall’s paper on “Confessing the Faith in an Anti-Christian Culture,” which was delivered on his behalf at the recent Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis offered a fascinating Biblical and Confessional study of what is meant by “Antichrist.” In
Someone asked me that question today. Is it just the current political climate? Don’t shady practices interfere with the free market system? After all, the stock market has regulations to make sure it operates as it should. Why shouldn’t we regulate these other financial markets
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