So says the Obama administration. Rod Dreher comments: Remember how no clergy member will be forced to perform same-sex marriages against their will. If the Obama administration has its way, all US military chaplains will have to do so. Excerpt: “The Obama administration “strongly objects”
Say you get a good job in the environs of our nation’s capital. (The region has some of the country’s lowest unemployment rates, with jobs in government, high-tech, and the military-industrial complex.) Your choices of where to live are the District of Columbia, Maryland, or
A judge in a Virginia lawsuit over posting the Ten Commandments in a public school has proposed cutting out the first few that are about God and allowing the rest of them to be displayed. (The so-called “First Table” is about love of God; the
A lot of people don’t like either the Republican or the Democratic candidate. Many people believe politics has gotten too extreme and want to vote for a centrist. Quite a few people are sick of so much partisanship, believing that our hard times call for
This is Natalie, whose parents took a picture of her every day of her life, then animated the photos so as to show her reaching 10 years old in 1 minute 25 seconds.
President Clinton was hailed by the liberal media as “the first black president”–on the basis of his soulfulness, sexual appetites, and other racist stereotypes–even though there would be an actual black president a few years later. Now Newsweek is hailing President Obama as “the first
You know how when you are in a group of people and somebody yawns, and then other people start yawning, and then you too feel the irresistible impulse to do likewise? Well, if there are dogs in the room, they too very likely will start
David Sedaris is a humor writer who has a standing gig at National Public Radio news shows. His schtick is based on his array of personal experiences, such as the time he once worked in a department store as Santa’s elf. But NPR got burned
Pastor Douthwaite, preaching from John 15:9-17 and 1 John 5:1-8: And speaking of Adam, he’s another one God gave but a single command to, remember? Just: don’t eat from this one tree. Just this one! You can eat from all the others: apples, oranges, pears,
Do you read the mad-cap sports columnist Norman Chad? His latest column is about the mystery of Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals superstar–who has hit an average of 40 home runs each season with a career .326 batting average–who can now do hardly anything
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