Donald Trump supports Obamacare, higher taxes, and gun control. He is weak on abortion, private property, and civil liberties. He doesn’t care about limited government or free market economics. He is a boastful womanizer. He doesn’t think he needs forgiveness from God. On issue after
In a column about whether the president should replace Antonin Scalia (worth reading on that topic alone), Peggy Noonan digresses on how the left today is unappeasable–pushing and pushing, allowing no compromise or dissenters, demanding everything. And how the current political climate shows that the
Donald Trump won big in Nevada, taking 45.9% of the vote and winning 14 delegates. Marco Rubio came in second, with 23.9% and 7 delegates. Ted Cruz was third, with 21.4% and 6 delegates. Then John Kasich, with 4.8% and 1, and Ben Carson, with
While liberal Lutherans and liberal Episcopalians have gone the way of mainline Protestantism in its anything-goes ecumenism, it is a different story with church bodies that still hold to their historical doctrines. The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has broken away from the Episcopal
A court in Massachusetts ruled that a Catholic school is guilty of discrimination against an employee who was let go because he is gay. The religious exemption doesn’t apply, said the judge, because the school admits non-Catholic students. According to one observer, “This court decision
The Zika virus is associated with rare birth defect microcephaly, but no causal connection has yet been established and anomalies keep cropping up. Though much of Latin America is plagued with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the vast majority of the birth defects are found in
Lutheran churches in America have an ethnic origin–they were usually started by communities of German, Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian immigrants–and that has definitely shaped the culture of local congregations, sometimes putting off new people who want to join. I remember marveling at the Germanness of
The Democratic caucus in Nevada was last Saturday. Nevada Republicans caucus tonight. Trump, being a Las Vegas kind of guy, is expected to win, but second place could help Rubio or Cruz. I’ll try to post the results here, if they are available before it
First the Cruz campaign circulated a false rumor that Ben Carson was quitting the race, costing the physician votes in New Hampshire. Then the Cruz campaign photoshopped a picture of Marco Rubio shaking hands with President Obama. Now the Cruz campaign has circulated a video
The United Kingdom will hold a referendum on June 23 on whether or not to remain in the European Union. They are calling it “Brexit,” a mash-up of “Britain” and “exit.” (more…)
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