Charles Lane of the Washington Post comments on the electric car fiasco, discussing the multiple failures of government investments and the disappointing performance and sales of the vehicles. The occasion is the disastrous roadtrip in a Tesla described by John M. Broder in the New
The cost of health insurance will go up dramatically under Obamacare, people are starting to realize. This will be true especially for the young healthy types that aren’t buying insurance now but will soon have to; that is to say, the currently uninsured, the ones
The learned and wise John T. Pless, a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, warns against fanaticism. He is discussing the recent controversy over a pastor participating in an interfaith service, showing that some on both sides have slipped into fanaticism, as
More doomsday predictions, this time from the Roman Catholic side! According to writings attributed to St. Malachy in 1139, pope #112 will be the last one, and then Jesus will return. That would be the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who is #111. (more…)
OK, this is rather belated, but still. . . .The quite liberal Dana Milbank takes the prize for best comments on the State of the Union Address: There is something entirely appropriate about holding the State of the Union address on the same day as
Liberal Catholic intellectual Garry Wills has a new book out entitled Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition in which he makes the rather un-Catholic argument that Jesus institute the priesthood. But he goes farther, giving a Catholic version of what many mainline Protestants and even some
Homeschooling in Germany is illegal and is punished harshly with fines, imprisonment, and even the taking away of children from their families. A family that suffered that persecutionfor homeschooling their children came to the United States seeking religious freedom, as so many other immigrants have
Buried as comment #381 in a recent post is an urgent prayer request from long-time reader and commenter Frank Sonnek (a.k.a., “fws”; a.k.a., “the gay confessional Lutheran”). I don’t know what it’s all about, and we don’t need to know. But, as a virtual community
My book Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature has been re-issued in an updated format. The publishers, Crossway Books, asked me to write about the book for their blog, which I did. (more…)
The universe did to the earth what a boxer does to his chump opponent, feinting with his right as a distraction, then punching hard with his left. On the very day we were concentrating on the near miss from the asteroid, which passed within the
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