Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has dropped out of the presidential race! That’s too bad, in my opinion. Though he didn’t come across strongly, he seemed like someone who could credibly serve as president. Who will benefit from his exit? Pawlenty realizes he wasn’t
The wild fluctuations of the stock market last week seem to be a reaction to the national deficit and the downgrading of American bonds. But, as financial analyst Liaquat Ahamed, points out, investors were dumping stocks and investing in government bonds, despite the downgrade and
Texas governor Rick Perry has announced that he running for president. As the longest-serving governor of a big state, Perry comes with lots of executive experience, with a strong record of economic growth and job creation. He is an open evangelical Christian, going so far
It has long been said that the level of a person’s religious commitment goes down proportionately to how much education that person has received. But now it turns out that church attendance and Bible reading actually increases with education. And so does theological liberalism: People
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, which divided the city–and by extension Germany and Europe itself–between Communism and freedom. You have simply got to read this account by the Lutheran journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, who not only saw the wall
Congressional leaders have appointed the “Super Committee” tasked by the debt reduction deal to recommend spending cuts and bring the federal budget under control. There have been other such committees, of course, whose recommendations have been ignored, but this one has some clout: Its recommendations
The young rioters in England wear hoods and masks to hide their identities. British authorities trying to tamp things down are pondering allowing police to require people to show their faces. Anonymity is indeed tied to bad behavior. Shame is one of those first-use of
Bob Duggan on a Rembrandt exhibit in Philadelphia that I’d really like to see, having always been astounded and edified by the artist’s portrayals of Jesus: For millennia now, believers and nonbelievers have wondered what Jesus may have looked like and grasped at any and
Rioters as young as nine are looting shops and burning buildings in cities across Great Britain. Pundits, of course, are trying to answer the question, “Why?” The left is predictably blaming social conditions–government cutbacks in particular–and the right is predictably putting responsibility on the individual
It looks like the unions lost and Republicans won in Wisconsin, as recall elections sparked by Gov. Scott Walker’s stand against collective bargaining for state employee unions retained the GOP majority in the state legislature: Republicans held onto control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday,
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