Unemployment is rough for auto workers, mid-level managers, and retailers. Also superstar baseball players in their free-agent year. Not only has the bottom fallen out of the housing market. It’s also fallen out of the baseball free agent market. Consider: If Major League Baseball called
Does a “faith-based” charity that takes federal money have the right to hire only followers of its faith? That’s the issue, whether Christian organizations can insist on hiring Christians–or Baptist groups, Baptist; or Lutheran, Lutheran, etc. President Bush had said “yes.” Democrats have tended to
President Obama is saying that companies that accept government bailout money can pay executives no more than $500,000 a year. I too am irked by C.E.O.s of failing companies making so much money, especially when it comes in the form of bonuses. The heads of
More evidence of the repaganization of Europe, that in the spiritual void left by the secularist abandonment of Christianity, more primitive religious beliefs are rushing in: An Austrian insurance company is trying to hire only employees born under a certain sign of the zodiac. A
Anthony Sacramone says that Shusaku Endo’s Silence, the classic Christian novel about the persecution of Jesuit missionaries in Japan, is going to be made into a movie. And the director will be Martin Scorsese, no less: As Petter Chattaway reports, Scorsese, who has long wanted
My colleague both at Patrick Henry College and at World Magazine, Les Sillars, has written a sly and funny take on the New Atheists in Salvo Magazine, a “Touchstone Magazine” venture for young people. In the Screwtapian form of an address at an atheists’ convention,
President Obama said he’ll pull back the “Buy American” provisions in the stimulus package after the European Union threatened a trade war, such as the one that proved so disastrous during the Great Depression. He also stepped away from nominating two tax evaders for administrative
Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus – washingtonpost.com: Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide
As the aesthetics czar at Patrick Henry College, a request to allow a particular music group on campus came across my computer. I’m not a big fan of contemporary Christian music, but no, I was told, this group isn’t really like that. It was a
I’ve got to show you this new picture of our granddaughter Elizabeth:
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