Though easily overlooked in all the discussion about the health care decision, the Supreme Court is announcing its decision in other cases today, as well. Perhaps most interesting is United States v. Alvarez, in which the issue is (as summarized by SCOTUSblog): Whether a federal law
From The Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Monday struck down several key parts of Arizona’s tough law on illegal immigrants, but it left standing a controversial provision requiring police to check the immigration status of people they detain and suspect to be in the country
Today we head out for a little cabin in the big woods. We will have no internet connection, no cell phone reception, no cable television, and no newspapers. If we survive, we will crawl out of the wilderness like Rip Van Winkle, if Rip Van
On this day 482 years ago–June 25, 1530–the Reformation princes and free cities confessed their faith before Emperor Charles V at the Diet (the governing assembly of the Imperial states) held in Augsburg, Germany. The 28 articles drawn up by Philipp Melanchthon (not Luther!) became
Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, has issued an open letter from religious leaders to Americans, stating why they object to the Obamacare insurance mandate requiring coverage of contraceptives and abortifacients. It’s getting some notable attention. FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Putting Beliefs
Julia Polese of the Institute for Religion and Democracy on LCMS President Matthew Harrison’s open letter on the Obamacare insurance mandate. (I draw your attention to what pro-infanticide ethicist Peter Singer has to say on the topic.) The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) recently
Charles Krauthhammer on how President Obama is acting lawlessly, doing something that he himself earlier said would be unconstitutional: In late 2010, he asked Congress to pass the Dream Act, which offered a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants. Congress
If we are going to do our traditional “guess the vice-president” game, we’d better hurry, since, reportedly, Mitt Romney will announce his choice before the Republican convention. It seems to me that the conventional wisdom that the vice president doesn’t matter is wrong on several
So what’s this about Southern Baptists cracking down on the Calvinists in their midst? See As Baptists Prepare to Meet, Calvinism Debate Shifts to Heresy Accusation | Christianity Today. Do Lutherans have a dog in this fight?
Leah Libresco has been running one of the atheism blogs at the pan-religion site Patheos, hers being entitled Unequally Yoked: A Geeky Atheist Picks Fights in Good Faith. Well, now the subtitle has changed to A Geeky Convert Picks Fights in Good Faith. And Patheos
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