It is now official, I guess. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann left the Wisconsin Synod shortly before running for president. This, as the press started portraying the conservative Lutheran denomination as a weird cult for believing that the Pope is the antichrist and that homosexuality is
Republican presidential candidates keep getting asked to sign pledges–not to raise taxes, to oppose abortion, etc.–in order to get the support of key voters. The latest is a pledge about marriage that goes on to include stances on various issues of sexual morality. Signers must
The revolution in the institution of marriage continues, as the legalization of polygamy is now being taken up by the courts. Tomorrow [July 13] in Salt Lake City, legal scholar and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley will file suit to challenge Utah statutes
The BBC reports that Great Britain’s online economy is harmed by bad spelling: An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses. Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling
I think I was the only person in America who did not follow the Casey Anthony story at all. The prospect of a mother murdering her own little girl was too horrible for me to contemplate. But now that the mother has been acquitted of
It’s hard to decipher what Mitch McConnell’s plan to deal with the debt ceiling even is, if you just go by the vague news reports and the wildly opposed or enthusiastic descriptions of it by both advocates and foes, both of whom exist among both
British journalist Matthew Engel complains about how American words–“Americanisms”– are contaminating British English: Lengthy. Reliable. Talented. Influential. Tremendous. All of these words we use without a second thought were never part of the English language until the establishment of the United States. The Americans imported
OK, I realize that I am late to this particular party, but I finally have an iPhone. I’ve used it for awhile and liked it, but recently my sister has introduced me to the world of applications. That is to say, “apps.” I now have
John at Redeemed Rambling, a Reformed Baptist, maintains that many conservative Christians are talking so much about sexual immorality that they are obscuring the Gospel: To my brothers, I have this plea: please stop with the sexual moralism. True Christianity finds its all in the
Archaeologists have been excavating the city of Gath and learning details about the Israelite’s arch-enemy the Philistines: The Philistines arrived by sea from the area of modern-day Greece around 1200 B.C. They went on to rule major ports at Ashkelon and Ashdod, now cities in
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