In her thought-provoking discussion of the caucus results, Peggy Noonan recounts a line Mike Huckabee delivered when Jay Leno asked him why he was doing so well against Mitt Romney: “People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they
Mike Huckabee is a Southern Baptist minister running, currently with some success, for the presidency. This raises an interesting issue of vocation. I’d like your help in sorting it out. During the time of the Reformation, the archbishops, in addition to their ecclesiastical functions, were
Andrew Sullivan sees Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama, the two victors in Iowa, as manifesting the same theme: Look at their names: Huckabee and Obama. Both came from nowhere – from Arkansas and Hawaii. Both campaigned as human beings, not programmed campaign robots with messages
It was certainly good to get back to our own church after weeks of holiday travel, and we came back to an excellent Epiphany sermon. The Wise Men, we were told, did not get very far using earthly wisdom: They came to Jerusalem, logically enough
In the rioting in Kenya over a disputed election that has sparked inter-tribal warfare, Springs of Life Lutheran Church has been looted and burned. The congregation is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya, which is in fellowship with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
A piece on how a court ruling opens up the possibility of Islamic law being applied in a libel case gives more evidence of how Islam may indeed become THE postmodernist religion: In the U.S., the Supreme Court’s seminal 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan
Still more from Gallup: A recent poll on how many Americans believe in Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design. A mere 18% believe that evolution is “definitely true,” while 39% believe that the Bible’s creation account is “definitely true.” (Other responses were about shades of “probably
about the Iowa caucus were pretty much upheld, though both Obama and Huckabee won bigger than I expected. So while I am on a roll, I will predict a little more: Giuliani’s campaign will go nowhere. He cannot just write off the heartland and the
In response to my post yesterday on our two books about the connections between fascism and today’s left, Jonah Goldberg, the author of “Liberal Fascism,” posted this comment: Dear Professor Veith – Well, I can tell you didn’t write *this* book. There are important differences
National Review editor Jonah Goldberg is coming out with a new book entitled Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning: Books: Jonah Goldberg. From the Amazon description: Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the
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