The debt compromise had two groups of people who are normally polar opposites agreeing with each other at long last. The measure was opposed by both those who are really conservative and those who are really liberal. Here is what the latter are saying
Living together out of wedlock is still something like marriage. Too much like it, apparently for an increasing number of couples today. The latest trend sees living together as too much of a commitment, as too permanent. So cohabitation is giving way to “stayover relationships”:
Did you hear about how former Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been mocking the Tea Party folks as “hobbits”? He apparently never read Lord of the Rings. The lowly hobbits ended up defeating the unlimited government of Mordor. And, according to Marc Thiessen, this
A major trend in the 20th and 21st century art world has to become ever more “minimalist.” As artists have tried to achieve the least possible gesture that could be called art–going from representations to idealizations to reductions to basic forms to pure forms to
The most breathtakingly presumptuous opinion poll of all time: More than half of U.S. voters approve of God’s job performance, according to a new poll, making God more popular than all members of Congress. The poll — which was conducted by the Democratic research firm
Democratic and Republican leaders came to an agreement on raising the debt limit, looking to forestall the government from going into default on Tuesday. But first both sides have to sell the agreement to their Congressmen and to their base. Basically, the Republicans gave in
The weirdest idea for solving the debt crisis comes from Ezra Klein of the Washington Post: Obama could always just solve the crisis with a pair of magical platinum coins. Sure, that sounds preposterous, but Yale’s Jack Balkin argues that this is actually a perfectly
This weekend we head up to Alaska. Anywhere to get away from this heat! No, I have always loved sagas of the high seas, and had always wanted to go for a ride on a big ship. My wife not so much, but she has
Archeologists may have discovered the tomb of one of Christ’s Twelve Disciples. Tradition says that St. Philip was martyred in the Hierapolis in present day Turkey and that’s where they found what appears to be his tomb in the ruins of an ancient church. From
The evangelical Anglican John Stott, a pastor and influential author died. I remember reading Stott at a crucial time in my own spiritual pilgrimage. Lutheran Anthony Sacramone offers a good tribute: If you entered the evangelical world when I did, in the 1980s, you were
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