Al-Qaeda is circulating a list of 22 techniques to thwart drone attacks–ones experts say are effective–showing how terrorists keep adapting to efforts to counter them. I give the list after the jump. (more…)
Al-Qaeda is circulating a list of 22 techniques to thwart drone attacks–ones experts say are effective–showing how terrorists keep adapting to efforts to counter them. I give the list after the jump. (more…)
I usually cast a jaundiced eye at efforts to change the name of sports teams that refer to Native Americans. After all, I reason, fans love their teams, so there can hardly be anything demeaning in what they call them. I do understand tribal sensitivities
A new Barna survey has found that evangelicals go to more movies than just about anybody. (more…)
In light of the above post, we should take the opportunity to discuss the Academy Awards that will be given out Sunday night. As someone who goes to the movies far more than the 3 times per year that is considered a large number, I
Have you noticed that it’s now the Democrats who are trying to wage a culture war? Meanwhile, all Republicans want to talk about today is economics, which was always the interest of the New Deal Democrats. (more…)
It’s not just Missouri Synod Lutherans! Russell Saltzman reports: The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (Place of Jesus) has severed all ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), according to an ELCA press release. The Mekane Yesus action came during their general convocation
David Forsmark makes a point made by our own loyal reader, author, and Nordic expert Lars Walker, speaking of the Norse deities. Forsmark writes: Americans have a naïve view of religion. The religious freedom that is so ingrained in our tradition — and our Constitution
Republicans are in an uproar over accusations that the think tanks behind their recent anti-immigration policies are not conservative at all; rather, they have their origin in the population control movement, with its advocacy of abortion and anti-human environmentalism. (more…)
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson says that the reason economic recovery is so slow in coming and the unemployment rate so high is a shift in the national psychology: We have gone from being an expansive, risk-taking society to a skittish, risk-averse one. (more…)
Pastors these days like to wear beards. So says Leadership Journal, published by Christianity Today, whose blog shows the various styles preferred by various kinds of pastors. I reproduce them here, adding also a distinctly Lutheran kind of beard. (more…)
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