Barack Obama, who apparently considers himself president-in-waiting, has been conducting negotiations with Iraq designed to DELAY the agreement for our troop withdrawal! So reports the New York Post: WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson says that what we are witnessing is the collapse of Wall Street’s entire business model, as developed since the 1980’s: First, financial firms have moved beyond their traditional roles as advisers and intermediaries. Once, major investment banks such as Goldman
The Brewers have their best season in years, leading the wildcard race and headed for the playoffs with just 12 games remaining. So what do they do? Fire their manager. Yes, the team was slumping, frittering away their lead. But why fire Ned Yost, the
A “moderate evangelical” writes in USA TODAY that few of the conservative Christians all excited about Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States would allow her to be pastor of their church. He argues that the support of evangelicals for Palin means that
It doesn’t sound like it. Then again, does anyone? It’s hard to see how higher taxes on the wealthy, as Obama is calling for, will produce jobs, stabilize the housing industry, or shore up the stock market. (Is it that higher taxes will give the
Thanks to Paul McCain for alerting us to this online resource from the Getty Museum: Cranach Magnified. It allows you to see tiny details from Cranach’s paintings, which sometimes amount to surprising extras: Following its acquisition in 2003, conservators and curators at the J. Paul
The Vatican has made a ruling that I fully agree with: The Tetragrammaton, YHWH, should not be uttered as “Yahweh”. “In recent years the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of Israel’s proper name,” the letter noted, referring to the four-consonant Hebrew “Tetragrammaton,”
The current presidential slate includes a black man and a woman. It also, let us not forget, includes someone who is disabled. John McCain’s arms are crippled, due to his injuries when we was shot down and then tortured by the North Vietnamese. (He isn’t
Poll Shows Women Voters Shifting Support to McCain-Palin: A new Washington Post/ABC News survey finds McCain is now ahead of Obama by 12 points among white women, 53 to 41 percent. Last month Senator Obama held an eight point lead over McCain among white women
The nation’s fourth biggest investment firm, Lehman Brothers, has gone under. This time a major economic player faced bankruptcy, no one bailed it out, not other banks, not foreign investors, and not the government. That is to say, this time the market is going to
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