Germany’s conservative Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was re-elected, as voters gave her party an overwhelming victory in seats in parliament. Political campaigns in Germany, though, are rather different from the way they are in the United States. (more…)
Before Charles Krauthammer became an influential conservative pundit, he was a medical doctor; specifically, a psychiatrist who worked the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital. So what he says about Aaron Alexis, who killed 12 people at Washington’s Navy Yard, carries some weight. (more…)
Our Scripture reading last Sunday included the Parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:1-15), which is probably one of the toughest parables to make sense of. A household manager gets sacked because of his corruption, so before he cleans out his desk he discounts the
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has been scolding Americans for thinking our country is exceptional. Robert Samuelson takes up the question of American exceptionalism and, without being triumphalist about it, highlights some distinctive qualities of the American mind. (more…)
The house in Milwaukee where Jeffrey Dahmer committed his grisly acts of murder and cannibalism was just torn down. Who would want to live in a place where such evil happened? The Amish community tore down the schoolhouse where a killer murdered five little girls.
I am the grateful recipient of the Biblical blessing: “May you see your children’s children!” (Psalm 128:6). I can also relate to this text: “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged” (Proverbs 17:6). I now have eight of those crowns, with the birth of
In 1961, a B-52 came apart in the air over North Carolina. The hydrogen bomb it was carrying fell towards the earth, its systems acting like it had been dropped intentionally. Its parachute and its trigger mechanism deployed. There were four safeguards to prevent the
Kathleen Parker says that we should at least delay the implementation of Obamacare (the major provisions of which kick in October 1). Her reasons provide a good summary of what all is wrong with the program. (more…)
Islamic terrorists attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing as many as 65 people and wounding some 200. Also this weekend, Islamic suicide bombers attacked All Saints Anglican Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing (at latest count) 81 people and wounding 140. (more…)
Mollie Hemingway has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the impact of gay marriage on religious liberty, which is being construed as applying only to religious institutions and not to individuals. (more…)
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