The state of Indiana has passed a law that allows citizens to shoot police officers if they reasonably believe the cops have entered their home illegally. PJ Media » Why the GOP-backed Indiana Gun Law Is a Terrible Idea. Conservatives used to make a point
One of the medieval “works of mercy” is burying the dead. So the Benedicting monks of St. Joseph Abbey in Louisiana, who had been making hand-crafted wooden caskets for members of their order, decided to make them available to the public. But before they sold
Luther is the acclaimed British crime drama now available to Americans on BBC America. Here is the Wikipedia description of John Luther, played by Golden-Globe winner Idris Elba: He is obsessive, possessed, and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. But Luther has paid
Denmark has passed a law requiring the state Lutheran church to hold church weddings for gay couples. It allows pastors who don’t believe in gay marriage–from one-third to one-half of the clergy–to opt out, but bishops must provide a replacement pastor to preside over the
Yesterday we posted about mining “big data,” how corporations, politicians, and researchers are delving into Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other online information to forecast trends, target customers, and gain various competitive advantages. Well, it turns out that the Obama campaign is mining such data on
There is a TV show on BBC called Luther about a British police investigator, a black man played by Idris Elba. According to Jordan Ballor, Luther is also Lutheran, a dramatic exploration of vocation and what it means to be a little Christ to your
President Obama said something that will be a much-replayed sound-bite in the presidential race: Laying out his economic argument at a morning news conference, Obama said that cutbacks in state and local government spending have slowed the nation’s recovery and that Congress has “no excuse”
An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining data from Twitter, Google, Facebook, and the like to identify trends and forecast the future: From a trading desk in London, Paul Hawtin monitors the fire hose of more than
Picking up on some earlier discussion, I came across this list of ways that a person can know whether or not they have been truly saved. They are from a book by Jim Wilson entitled (ironically, it seems to me) Assurance of Salvation: 1. The
Another practice in which Congress evades its constitutional responsibilities: Passing laws that consist largely of vague frameworks and enabling bureaucrats from the executive branch to fill in the blanks with the substance of the law. George Will on a bill that would put regulations back
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