2008-01-15T08:17:14-05:00

Why many in the Civil Rights establishment do not like Obama. (Short answer: political patronage.) Why many in the Republican establishment do not like McCain. (Short answer: his role in exposing the Abramoff scandal.)

2008-01-14T08:28:17-05:00

Christianity Today had a column on the assurance of salvation, addressing the question of how can you know you are saved if you can’t remember the moment of your conversion. Read it here. The conclusion: For those who question their salvation, the best evidence is

2008-01-14T08:20:13-05:00

What a great service we had again at our church. Military chaplain the Rev. Keith Lingsch was our guest preacher, and his sermon on Christ’s baptism, commemorated on this day of the Epiphany, gave me epiphanies of my own. He pointed out that John’s was

2008-01-14T08:19:53-05:00

I picked up John Warwick Montgomery at the airport last night. He is now back in the states, where he will serve on the faculty of Patrick Henry College. He will keep his residence in France and continue his Apologetics Institute in Strasbourg, but he

2008-01-14T08:19:41-05:00

. . .for their wild, snowy playoff victory over Seattle. (P.S.: All Packers fans are very grateful to the New York Giants.) HT: Pastor Esget

2008-01-11T09:44:13-05:00

[For rules and set-up instructions, see yesterday’s post.] We’re the big Democratic honchos meeting in a Denver hotel room, designing a winning ticket for a deadlocked convention. . . OK, Carville, Begala, settle down. Let’s get started. Wait! I’m personally offended. We don’t have enough

2008-01-11T09:23:12-05:00

The conventional wisdom is that the Reagan coalition was an alliance of economic conservatives, national defense conservatives, and social conservatives. Some say that in this election the Reagan coalition is coming apart. Joe Carter, though, who just finished a stint with the Huckabee campaign, challenges

2008-01-11T09:09:19-05:00

Yet another major breakthrough has taken place in generating stem cells without killing an embryo. Scientists have found a way to take one cell from an embryo and multiply it into human stem cells. The procedure does not kill the embryo, and, in fact, embryos

2008-01-10T10:03:54-05:00

Let us play a game. We will call it The Smoke-Filled Room. Here is the set-up: No candidate has a majority of delegates coming into the convention. We are all grizzled machine politicians gathered in a smoke-filled room to broker the convention by coming up

2008-01-10T09:46:50-05:00

In Jeffrey Bell’s article discussed below, he makes an even more important point, one of those obvious-if-you-think-about it points that nevertheless may come as a revelation. The social conservative’s emphasis on culture is crucial because cultural change–not economics–is the main agenda of today’s leftists. At

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