From Victor Davis Hanson: Economically, why would we formalize nearly a million new legally authorized workers when unemployment is approaching its 41st consecutive month over 8 percent — especially when Democrats used to label 5.4 percent unemployment as a “jobless recovery”? Here in California, the
The ancients talked about the human body as a microcosm, as a little world. Now scientists have shown just how true that is, how each of us is a world with millions of inhabitants: They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut
More in our continuing series on non-Lutherans discovering Lutheran theology (while many Lutherans throw it away). Jono Linebaugh, New Testament Professor at Knox Theological Seminary, is working in the same orbit as Tullian Tchividjian, Billy Graham’s grandson and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, in
The old prohibition movement sought to ban alcoholic beverages. The new prohibition movement seeks to ban soft drinks. New York City is considering banning large portions; Cambridge, Massachusetts, is considering banning soft drinks altogether. See City Of Cambridge – CITY CLERK OFFICE, CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS. What
The president as above the law. From Victor Davis Hanson discussing the de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants: Legally, President Obama has reiterated the principle that he can pick and choose which U.S. laws he wishes to enforce (see his decision to reverse the order
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate office complex. That event on June 17, 1972, would bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon. I remember news of the burglary and the subsequent dripping out of
Matthew Block, editor of the Canadian Lutheran, makes good use of classic literature to demonstrate how despair is countered by the promises of God: In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a spiritual epidemic spread across England, infecting Christians with the belief that God would
More mind-blowing discoveries from quantum physics: In the quantum optical laboratories at the Niels Bohr Institute, researchers have conducted experiments that show that light breaks with the classical physical principles. The studies show that light can have both an electrical and a magnetic field, but
President Obama, not by Congressional lawmaking but by executive order, announced that illegal aliens whose parents brought them here would no longer face deportation: The Obama administration announced Friday it will stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age. .
The National Association of Evangelicals has developed a Code of Ethics for pastors. It’s not all that long. Do you think this is needed? Is it adequate? Can you think of anything else that should be included? (I’d especially like to hear reactions to this
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