Those melancholy Danes have now cheered up, to the point that Denmark is now the happiest place on earth. The USA ranks up there at number 16, despite reports of record dissatisfaction. According to the study, happiness rates are actually way up since the first
Nat Hentoff is a non-religious liberal human rights activist. He is, however, consistent with these positions. He is pro-life. I have never understood what is liberal or in any way humane about supporting abortion. In fact, that a candidate believes in abortion makes me not
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson points out that it isn’t just oil that is skyrocketing. Raw materials of every kind have shot up. He decries the scapegoating practiced by both political parties, which blames oil companies or speculators and puts the blame at unprecedented economic
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Did you hear about how non-Catholic, apparently non-Christian took Communion at Tim Russert’s funeral? Last Wednesday at Tim’s funeral mass at [Holy]Trinity Church in Georgetown (Jack Kennedy’s church), communion was offered. I had only taken communion once in my life, at an evangelical church. It
In an extraordinary spectacle, a number of Barack Obama supporters attack John McCain’s military service. It ranges from Gen. Wesley Clark saying that a pilot locked up in a North Vietnamese cage for five years doesn’t have executive military experinece like generals at their desks
Yes, we’ve got financial problems, but we really have it good. Notice how we nearly all are willing to pay considerable money for bottled water, which tests have shown is no different from ordinary tap water. Now people are attempting to turn different brands of
There has been a lot of dialogue on the “I perceive you are very religious” post with Michael the Little Boot, who does not believe in God. In the course of it, I asked him about his life, his experiences with religion that he alludes
Rev. William Weedon offers a great quote from C. F. W. Walther, the father of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (the reference being to an excellent devotional book drawn from Walther’s writings translated by Gerhard Grabenhofer, one of my former students!) Each rejoices when another
In yet another in its ongoing series of idiotic cover stories, Newsweek has a big spread on the newsy topic of which was greater, Lincoln or Darwin? See, the two were born on the same day, February 12, 1809 (not even this week!), so the
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