Tonight is the second of the presidential candidate debates, this one in a “town hall” format, with undecided voters posing the questions. We now see that the debates do matter, as Mitt Romney’s good performance and Barack Obama’s bad performance put the Republican back into
When countries (and, as we have seen, states) raise taxes on “the rich,” the rich have been escaping to jurisdictions with lower taxes. Thus, ever since Maryland has increased taxes on its wealthiest citizens, those citizens have been moving to lower-tax Virginia. The co-founder of
You’ve got to see Saturday Night Live‘s take on the Vice Presidential debate. Go to the link for the video. Here are some excerpts: “I’m from Janesville, Wisconsin, and he’s from Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Ryan says in the skit. “Do you know what the unemployment rate
Mitt Romney, as expected, seems to be tacking towards the center in an effort to woo Independents and to counter the “war against women” allegations. This is what he told the Des Moines Register: “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with
A feud is erupting between President Obama and Bill & Hillary Clinton. As we saw during the Vice Presidential debate, the Obama administration is trying to blame the debacle in Libya on our intelligence agencies and the State Department. Bill, having given Obama a big
I would like to congratulate the 500 million citizens of the European Union for winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The same people who awarded one of the world’s greatest honors to Barack Obama upon entering office–before his Afghanistan escalation and his drone assassinations–this time
The baseball playoffs are on another level of sports enjoyment. These games are not relaxing, as baseball usually is, at least if you have a favorite team in the mix. You find yourselves fixating on every pitch. The games are intense, suspenseful, stressful. To be
Be sure to read our live blog of the Vice Presidential debate, below. We’ve got some good punditry here. Who do you think won the debate? Will this turn the tide back to Obama, keep up Romney’s new momentum, have no effect, or what?
This “Life Quote” from Lutherans For Life was in our bulletin Sunday, strong words from apologist John Stott: “How can we speak of the termination of a pregnancy when what we really mean is the destruction of a human life? How can we talk of
One of my favorite courses in grad school was “Bibliography and Methods,” in which we learned about the scholarship of studying manuscripts, variant texts, printing evidence, textual editing, and other kinds of hard-core old-school literary research. One of the things you can do with this
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