I went into a Barnes & Nobles recently and found no book that I wanted to read! Maybe you could help me. I’m not looking for serious, interesting, or edifying books. I have plenty of those. What I need is something light, something suited for
I went into a Barnes & Nobles recently and found no book that I wanted to read! Maybe you could help me. I’m not looking for serious, interesting, or edifying books. I have plenty of those. What I need is something light, something suited for
Frank J. Fleming offers A Modest Proposal for Training Future Presidents: If God got fed up with us — and who would blame Him — and stepped down, would we want an extensive, well-thought-out process for picking a successor? Would we want to make sure
The summit presided over by President Bush–attended by congressional leaders, John McCain, and Barack Obama–degenerated into a shouting match, according to reporters. The plan to spend $700 billion to purchase bad securities is losing support, but House conservatives have put forward a plan for the
While the mega-banks are floundering, your little local bank is thriving. SeeSmaller Banks Thrive Out of the Fray of Crisis – washingtonpost.com. If you need a loan, go there.
Six Virginia state troopers who serve as chaplains have resigned in light of a policy that would forbid them when praying publicly to pray in the name of Jesus or even so much as to mention His name. Another example of forced ecumenism, as syncretism
What do you think of McCain’s gestureto suspend his campaign? Both presidential candidates do have day jobs they should not neglect. They are both Senators. It is surely appropriate that they leave the campaign trail to come back to Washington to thrash out such an
At the MTV music awards, one of the hosts, British comedian Russell Brand, amused the audience by ridiculing Promise Rings, which many young people–including some celebrities such as the Jonas Brothers–wear to symbolize their pledge not to have sex before marriage. Later in the show,
Study Finds Major Shift in Abortion Demographics: The analysis confirmed previous reports that the abortion rate fell to the lowest level since 1974, dropping 33 percent from a peak of 29 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in 1980 to 20 per 1,000
The way the proposed bailout plan works is that the government would buy all of those bad mortgages held by banks and investors. Now the plan has already been expanded to allow the government to buy up all “troubled assets,” including student loans, car debt,
Democratic criticisms of John McCain are so partisan, so unmeasured, and so hysterical that they can hardly be taken seriously, having the unintended consequence of making me like him more. But George Will is a conservative columnist, and he has raised the most trenchant questions
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