President Trump will submit a budget that he says will put “America first.” Defense spending will jump 10%, a $54 billion increase. That money will come from what we used to spend for foreign aid and from big cut-backs to most other federal agencies. Law enforcement and
Hollywood was feeling good. The Academy Awards show featured continual Trump-bashing and the “Oscars So White” controversy was put to rest, with black people well-represented in all categories and winning lots of awards. But at the grand finale, the announcement of the climactic “Best Picture”
Catholics, Protestants often say, believe in salvation by good works. This engenders the reply from thoughtful Catholics, no we don’t! You have to have grace. In fact, we even believe in justification by faith, just like you Lutherans do, as proven by the accord we
The Christian owner of a meatpacking business had some pamphlets lying around in the breakroom that opposed gay marriage. When some inspectors from the United States Department of Agriculture saw them, they demanded that they be removed. Otherwise, they said, they would not inspect the plant,
Who do you think said this? “Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized — the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old. When history looks back
Our media is highly politicized across the spectrum, obsessed–pro- or con- or somewhere in between–with the Donald Trump phenomenon. No one can escape it! And in print, on screen, and online pundits are interpreting non-Trump phenomena in Trumpian terms. My former student John Ehrett, of
In another in our series of my-former-students-who-are-making-me-proud-by-their-writing, Gracy Olmstead explains why today’s conservatives need to pay attention to Sir Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism. Burke, in criticizing the French Revolution, showed why social reform must “conserve” what is good in the society. Rather than raze
American agriculture has virtually eliminated world hunger. And American farmers preside over an industry that has become an economic powerhouse. Kevin D. Williamson tells all about the success of American agriculture, what it means for world trade, and how farmers–with their use of technology and innovative
How did the gay, profane, iconoclastic Milo Yiannopoulos get to be a poster child for conservative Republicans? Was this due to a surge of pro-gay tolerance? Or have conservative Republicans lost their moral compass?Ben Howe, writing in the Atlantic, blames evangelicals, especially evangelical leaders who taught
President Trump keeps doing what he was elected to do, thereby sending his opponents into a frenzy. He has rescinded Barack Obama’s rule mandating that transgender students must be allowed to go to the bathroom of their chosen gender, rather than their biological sex. And
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