According to a document leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA has been tracking visits to porn sites and other questionable activities as a way to discredit or perhaps blackmail suspected Muslim terrorists. Read about it after the jump. Is this a brilliant tactic that should
Most attention in the Obamacare rollout has been on the individual mandate to buy insurance from an approved “exchange.” But small businesses, those with 50 or fewer employees, have an exchange of their own that they can buy from. But that part of the HealthCare.gov
I hope you have a meaningful Thanksgiving, with the thankful part not overshadowed by shopping, football, gluttony, family spats, or other distractions. Towards that end, this special edition of the Cranach blog will offer some meditations about things we really should be thankful for. Remember
Someone has said (again, please help me source it if you can) that if you have a wildly successful career but have a miserable family life, you will be miserable. And if you have a miserable career but have a happy family life, you will
Right now, people who lack health insurance and need a government subsidy to pay for it are being asked to sign up for the program on their computers. Think of that. It can be assumed that even those who need financial assistance have computers.
We want to do things that we can’t do, for one reason or another, and we complain about every restriction. And yet, we really do have an incredible measure of liberty in this country. Let us count some of the ways. . . . (more…)
We just celebrated the last Sunday of the Church Year–some call it the Sunday of the Fulfillment or Christ the King Sunday. And the Gospel reading for this triumphant, climactic day is about. . . Christ on the Cross (Luke 23:27-43). Our pastor preached on
Roman Catholics and the Lutheran World Federation made a splash a few years ago when they came to some agreements about Justification by Faith. But the much-hyped talk of the two parties getting together has floundered, since many of the liberal Lutherans of the LWF
The Supreme Court has announced that it will settle the question of whether owners of private businesses with religious objections can opt out of the Obamacare mandate that employer-provided insurance policies must cover contraceptives and morning-after-pills. The court will hear the cases of Hobby Lobby
Hear them all (from Dan Savage, Germaine Greer, Peter Hitchens, and Hanna Rosin). HT: Aaron Lewis & Wrigley Peterborough
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