Back when Barack Obama was first running for president, I was among those worried about his community organizing ties to the Marxist activist Saul Alinsky. I admit that Obama has not set up a dictatorship of the proletariat, though this quotation from Alinsky does sort
More ways to lie with statistics. From an article by Christina Hoff Sommers: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that
Sunday the Gospel reading was Mark 1:21-28 on Jesus casting out an unclean spirit. Here is what Pastor Douthwaite did with that text: Now, several things strike me about this account so far. First, it seems as if no one knew there was a man
Should Christians employ acupuncture, yoga, and other “alternative medicine” treatments whose theoretical foundations come out of Eastern or New Age religions? All of those energy meridians, chakras, and the like are far removed from a Christian worldview, much less the worldview of modern science. And
One of the Republican candidate’s favorite whipping boys is Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve. They have been accusing him of employing monetary policies that produce inflation. But it turns out, inflation rates continue to be low: Bernanke didn’t need to rebut his critics;
More Portlandia. . . . This is more than a satire of artsiness. It cuts to the human condition: how we idealize nature while also loathing and fearing actual nature. HT: Joanna
Another example of the prowess of the U. S. military: Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders in the Somali village of Galkayo said they began hearing an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters. It was the culmination of a daring and risky mission by about two
Newt Gingrich is always wrapping himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, but at the time, when Newt was a Congressman, he was best known for criticizing Reagan’s policies and for putting down the president. So says Reagan administration official Elliott Abrams, who was there:
In the context of discussing an embarrassing video in which a hysterical fan blames the playoff loss of the Green Bay Packers on the fact that she wore sparkly nail polish, Ed Driscoll quotes a passage from David Frum’s How We Got Here: The ‘70s:
Last Sunday was Life Sunday, with Scripture readings about Jonah and the calling of the first Disciples. See what Pastor Douthwaite did with all of this, how he turned the pro-life message into being not just about Law (abortion is terrible) but about the Gospel.
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