2012-03-07T09:12:50-05:00

In Super Tuesday results, Romney won 6 states (Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Idaho, Alaska, and the big prize of Ohio); Santorum won 3 (Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Tennessee), and Gingrich won 1 (his home state of Georgia). In terms of delegates, with some states awarding them

2012-03-07T05:46:04-05:00

How to restrict religion given the Bill of Right’s protection of the “free exercise” of religion?  Easy, the secularists in power are finding:  Define religion as only what goes on behind the walls of churches. That’s what the administration has done in its abortion pill/contraceptive

2012-03-07T05:30:58-05:00

Political scientist James Q. Wilson has died.  Among his many contributions was an article on “Broken Windows”–observing that if a broken window in a building doesn’t get fixed, soon all the windows will be broken, an example of how social order must be established in

2012-03-06T06:00:16-05:00

Today is Super Tuesday, when 10 states hold their presidential primaries and caucuses all on the same day, delivering over 400 delegates (nearly 18% of them all). The states and their number of delegates are as follows:  Georgia (76), Idaho (32), Massachusetts (41), North Dakota

2012-03-06T05:45:55-05:00

Radio talker Rush Limbaugh has his schtick, but when he targeted a college student who had been agitating for free contraception–calling her a “slut” and a prostitute and telling her to post her sex videos on the internet–he surely crossed a line.  Nine sponsors have

2012-03-06T05:30:02-05:00

The saga of Issues, Etc., after much drama, is moving to a happy resolution.  The confessional Lutheran radio show  was booted from the LCMS-owned radio station KFUO for its uncompromising theological stands, sparking an uproar that, arguably, contributed to the election of new, more conservative

2012-03-05T06:00:26-05:00

The state where I now live, Virginia, has its presidential primary on Tuesday, joining nine other states in a delegate extravaganza that constitutes Super Tuesday.   As I’ve complained earlier, the only candidates to get their act together so as to come up with enough names

2012-03-05T05:45:27-05:00

Last Thursday the Washington Post had a big feature article–on the front page, no less–about Washington, Oklahoma, which is just down the road from where my wife’s father and brother live.  The article was focusing on Oklahoma as a Super Tuesday state and as one

2012-03-05T05:30:41-05:00

You will need this:  Lutheran Insulter. HT:  Mockingbird

2012-03-02T06:00:27-05:00

Please indulge me in another post about our book Family Vocation:  God’s Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and Childhood.  (And, hey, thanks for bringing us into the top 2,000 on Amazon!) When a book is on the verge of being released, the publisher sends out copies

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