Labor unions have been having a hard time of it. So union activists have announced a new strategy: “We are going to expand the idea of collective bargaining,” said Tim Paulson, executive director of the San Francisco AFL-CIO. “You can have collective bargaining through legislation.
On this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we’ve got to ask ourselves: Did the terrorists win? Or did America win? And what did those attacks do to us? Considerations after the jump. (more…)
British theologian Theo Hobson has a paradigm-scrambling article in the Christian Century, the magazine of record of mainline liberal Protestantism. He says that liberal theology has suffered a “huge collapse,” particularly in its intellectual credibility in academic theology. The “bad” liberal theology is faulted
So what did you think of the President’s speech on Syria? Did it make any of you change your mind? Is this his “Cuban Missile Crisis” moment? What do you think will happen now? An account of the speech and a link to the complete
A reporter asked Secretary of State John Kerry if Syria could do anything to avoid getting attacked. Off the cuff, Kerry said, sure, get rid of their chemical weapons. Whereupon the Russian foreign minister seized on the idea, turning it into a proposal. Whereupon the
In Brazil a man suffered a stroke, whereupon he started giving away his money, giving food to street children, and being so kind to everyone that he has been diagnosed as having “pathological generosity.” Interestingly, his condition made him lose his job as a manager
Retired Major General Robert H. Scales, former commandant of the U. S. Army War College, gives the word on the streets from those who would actually have to do the fighting: By no means do I profess to speak on behalf of all of our
Tokyo won the 2020 Olympics, beating out Istanbul and Madrid. I’d say that was a good choice. Also, the International Olympics committee voted to re-instate wrestling as an Olympics sport, beating out baseball, softball, and squash. (more…)
As Congress and the nation as a whole decide on whether to attack Syria, let us take up the exercise of applying the guidelines for starting a “Just War,” according to Christian ethicists going back to St. Augustine. The criteria are listed after the jump.
Now that the Boy Scouts of America have accepted homosexuality, veterans of the scouting movement have announced the forming of an alternative organization: Trail Life USA. (more…)
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