Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is quoted in the Tulsa World as saying President Obama wants to “create dependency” because it “worked so well for him” as an “African American male.” Now he is getting lambasted as a racist. Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent went to
My alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, is rated #1 in all four of the major preseason polls for NCAA football. I’m realizing that I’d better brag now, before the games actually start, since, if history is a guide, the Sooners’ pre-eminence is likely to
A while ago I blogged about Tullian Tchividjian–Billy Graham’s grandson and the successor to William Kennedy as the pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church”–and his reaction to Lutheran novelist Bo Giertz. (He offered a clarification to that post: “I didn’t say that Giertz caused a Copernican
Todd alerted me to this story from Reuters: The Vatican has granted priests the right to forgive the sin of abortion when hearing the confessions of hundreds of thousands of young people attending a Roman Catholic youth festival in Spain this week. The termination of
President Obama will soon propose a new economic stimulus plan, one that will combine tax cuts, lots of new spending, AND deficit reduction: President Obama has decided to press Congress for a new round of stimulus spending and tax cuts as he seeks to address
First we accept homosexuality, some social conservatives said, and next we’ll accept pedophilia. If we legalize gay marriage, they said, next we’ll have legalize polygamy. “Nonsense!” came the reply. “You’re committing the slippery slope fallacy.” Well, we are slipping and sliding on that same slippery
When I was in grade school, penmanship kept me off of the honor roll. Today most schools have not only dropped penmanship, they do not even teach cursive writing anymore Most states don’t require children to learn cursive writing anymore. Some 46 states have adopted
Governor Perry is leading the other Republican presidential contenders, including among tea partiers and anti-tea partiers. Romney leads him among moderates by only two points. Rick Perry leads his Republican rivals by double digits in the first national survey taken since the Texas governor joined
Congregations dissenting from the ELCA’s embrace of homosexuality now have a bishop and have formed a new Lutheran denomination: The North American Lutheran Church (NALC). It has 250 congregations and some 100,000 members. Check out their website, which details the NALC’s beliefs, government, and mission:
Ron Paul, the pro-life anti-war libertarian, took second place in the Iowa straw poll. Michelle Bachmann beat him by only 200 votes, and yet her showing is being hailed as making her a contender. Paul is attracting much more support than he received the last
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