Time Magazine has proclaimed Barack Obama as the Person of the Year for 2012. Here, according to the magazine, is his significance for American culture: There has been much talk of the coalition of the ascendant — young people, minorities, Hispanics, college-educated women — and
As is our custom, after Time names its Person of the Year, we discuss our choices. Who do you think most affected the year 2012 for better or worse? (That’s Time‘s criteria.) Or, if you prefer, how about just in your own life?
Philipp Melanchthon was the great Renaissance scholar of the humanities who became Luther’s right hand man and a major Lutheran theologian, being the author of the Augsburg Confession and its Apology. Melanchthon also more or less invented the Reformation schools, giving them a curriculum grounded
Income taxes for everyone are not the only taxes that will jump up, should we jump off the fiscal cliff. The estate and gift taxes will also soar dramatically. George Will is sardonic about it: If you have worked hard for five decades, made pots
The Senate finally has an African-American member. He is a conservative Republican. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) announced she will appoint Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to the Senate, taking the place of Sen. Jim DeMint, who is leaving to head the Heritage Foundation. Scott
The British periodical The Spectator argues that 2012 was the best year ever: It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence.
Eastern Orthodox folks celebrate Christmas on a different day than we Western Christians do. They don’t go along with the change in the calendar that was orchestrated by Pope Gregory XIII back in 1582 in order to re-align our calendar with the motions of the
The Electoral College cast its ballots on Monday. The results won’t be official, though, until Congress counts the vote on January 6. Electoral college set to vote on President Obama’s reelection – The Washington Post. Is this an anachronism or wisdom from our nation’s Founders?
On another, appropriately escapist note, who has seen the Hobbit last weekend? We plan to take it in later this week in a lull between family Christmas visits. I’ve heard of people who loved it greatly, who were disappointed, and who were made nauseous by
The London Daily Mail has published a grim list of other American school shootings, in addition to the one in Connecticut, whose 27 deaths made it the second worse of all time. 1. Virginia Tech – 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksburg,
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