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August 2011

August 29, 2011
Sloan Briles is a real winner: A California man was arrested for investigation of throwing...
August 26, 2011
Douglas MacKinnon writes at Investor's Business Daily: Beyond the usual suspects in the far-left media,...
August 26, 2011
In the News 1.  Walter Russell Mead, ever since he left the Henry Kissinger Chair...
August 24, 2011
According to numbers published yesterday, the federal debt has increased by over $4.2 billion for every...
August 24, 2011
In the News 1.  OBAMA: THE MAN WITH THE PLAN?  Although it contains a generous...
August 23, 2011
After writing the Morning Report for today, I came across two articles I had to...
August 23, 2011
In the News 1.  While the pronouncements of victory may be immature, it does appear...
August 22, 2011
In the News 1.  A recently-released survey of American economists finds that those advocating spending...
August 19, 2011
My Everyday Transcendence series has highlighted music and art and endurance in the midst of...
August 19, 2011
*** Morning Report - In the Pews *** 1.  Lisa Miller of the Washington Post,...
August 19, 2011
1.  Texas has produced over the past five years more net new jobs than the...
August 18, 2011
In the News 1.  Important pieces on "twin killings" or (more euphemistically) "reductions" -- in...
August 17, 2011
Note: This is the latest in a series on homosexuality and Christianity. See the introduction and first, second...
August 14, 2011
For my Sunday reposts, I choose pieces previously written, but still relevant, and share them...
August 14, 2011
Some time ago, we at Patheos held a conversation on "What does God look like?"...
August 12, 2011
It's a familiar refrain that our political system has grown dysfunctional, even broken.  Congress, for...
August 12, 2011
Key quotations from both sides of the aisle: Theodore Dalrymple (no relation): The ferocious criminality...
August 10, 2011
John Stott, quoted by Kyle Roberts: Emotionally, I find the concept [of eternal conscious torment]...
August 10, 2011
Quotations are offered not because I agree or disagree with them, but as points of...
August 09, 2011
Let's review for a moment. The American stock market is cratering.  It's lost roughly ten...
August 09, 2011
Ralph Richard Banks: I came away [from my research] convinced of two facts: Black women...
August 08, 2011
Sociologist Bradley Wright in an interview from Patton Dodd at Patheos: There is this funny paradox:...
August 08, 2011
I'm going to begin a series that I'll try to post every day.  It will...
August 06, 2011
I'm tempted to speak as Aragorn did to Frodo at the Prancing Pony in Bree:...
August 03, 2011
There's a saying attributed to John Stott: "When Christ is Lord, nothing is secular."  Or...
August 02, 2011
One of the gravest dangers of the Budget Control Act passed yesterday is that it...
August 01, 2011
I apologize that things have been a little slow here over the past couple days....
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