Florida Republican congressman Connie Mack has put forward an ingenious approach to deficit reduction: cut one penny (1%) from every dollar spent for six years. This modest across the board reduction would be in place of the percentage increases every year that have become the
Elizabeth Marquardt notes that three different strands are coming together to legalize group marriage: the far left, the far right, and the new reproductive technology: From the fringy left: Polyamory Polyamory describes relationships of three or more people — it literally means “many loves.” Polyamorists
Major League baseball, unlike the National Basketball Association, has a new labor agreement, one attained with no strikes, lockouts, or threats to the season. Here are some highlights: •HGH [human growth hormone]: Baseball will be the first North American team sport with HGH blood testing
One of the most troublesome charges against Newt Gingrich is that he served the divorce papers to his first wife in her hospital room where she was dying of cancer. The increased scrutiny due to his front-runner status in the Republican presidential race has at least uncovered
Thanks to Tom Hering for this quotation from Martin Luther, On Trading and Usury, 1524: Of the companies I ought to say much, but that whole subject is such a bottomless abyss of avarice and wrong that there is nothing in it that can be
In the Reformation, the catalytic issue was the sale of indulgences, but the underlying issue was the authority of the Word of God. Today the catalytic issue has to do with sexuality, but the underlying issue, again, is the authority of the Word of God.
Sally Quinn marks 5 years of doing her On Faith discussions for the Washington Post. She says after all of this religion coverage that she is no longer an atheist. She doesn’t have a personal relationship with God, though, and she believes that all religions
Newt Gingrich, according to some polls, has pulled ahead of Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. So, following form, the news stories are digging up unfavorable material about him. But there is a difference this time: The stories are about how
Back in August, Congress averted a government shutdown at the last minute by kicking the can to a “Supercommittee” that was assigned to find $1.2 trillion in savings. The incentive was a provision that if the bipartisan task force failed to do so, $1.2 trillion
As if to put us in the mood for winter, the Washington Post has a fascinating feature explaining why no two snowflakes are the same: Newly formed snow crystals with only a handful of molecules would be nearly impossible to distinguish. But that’s not really
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