No less than 17 states will be voting on legalizing marijuana, either for medical or recreational use, on Election Day, 2016. (For details of the various state initiatives, see this.) Democrats are reportedly counting on left-leaning younger people who don’t normally vote coming to the
We are mostly familiar with the concept of human rights. In his address to the United Nations, Pope Francis affirmed that and arguably took it a little further, referring to “the right to existence of human nature itself,” which includes not only the right to
House Speaker John Boehner, who has been facing opposition and ouster attempts from many of his fellow Republican, is resigning at the end of October. Not only from his powerful leadership position, but from Congress! Might this help Republicans, who have a majority in both
Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress, taking the opportunity to preach against tenets of both liberalism and conservatism. Liberals were zinged by his remarks opposing abortion, redefining the family, and infringing upon religious liberty. Conservatives were zinged by his remarks on the necessity
All of the Democrats plus 8 Republicans voted against a Senate bill that would defund Planned Parenthood, shifting the money instead to women’s health clinics. The bill was part of a measure to fund the government, so if it shuts down on October 1, that
My brother Jimmy, in response to my post about the Winfield music festival that we went to, made this comment and raised an interesting question: A great time was had by all. I enjoyed visiting and picking with Fred, and you can count me in
In honor of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States and in recognition of the papal envy being expressed by many Protestants, we offer Melanchthon’s case against the papacy, as stated in A Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, one of the
Yogi Berra, the winner of three MVPs who played in more World Series games than anybody, died at age 90. Here is his obituary. In addition to his baseball greatness playing for the New York Yankees, Yogi became known for his gnomic comments. On one
The New York Times has published a piece condemning the U.S. military for ignoring cases of child sexual abuse in Afghanistan. And yet, a few years earlier, the Times published a piece praising military briefers who told the troops to ignore the custom of “boy
I have been gorging myself on western and midwestern small-town culture, since retiring. In the last few weeks, I’ve been to a rodeo, a county fair, and Charlie Adams Day (a festival honoring a town legend and his horse). Last week I attended a huge
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