We blogged a few days ago about the Navy authorizing chaplains to perform gay marriages in military chapels in states where that is legal. The resulting outcry has led to a cancellation of that policy, at least for now: Navy revokes guidance on same-sex marriages
The Presbyterian Church (USA) opened the door to ordaining sexually-active gays–as well as other single people who want to be sexually-active outside of marriage–by removing the celibacy requirement for single clergy: After decades of debate, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Tuesday struck down a barrier
China is undergoing a labor shortage due to its one child policy with its forced abortions, which means that labor costs are climbing. It may soon reach a point when American companies will do better to keep their manufacturing jobs here. From Harold Meyerson:
Does anyone see anything wrong with this? A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as
I know some of you are libertarians and some of you are Ron Paul fans. What do you think of Paul’s proposal at the Republican presidential candidate debate to legalize prostitution and drugs? What do you think of Michael Gerson’s smackdown of Paul and his
More creative taxation ideas, combined with the impulse for the government to make us better: An Illinois lawmaker says parents who have obese children should lose their state tax deduction. “It’s the parents’ responsibility that have obese kids,” said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga. “Take
Ezra Klein highlights some proposals going around Washington that are not controversial and that everyone of any political party should be able to get behind. Not me, when it comes to abolishing the penny! In 2007, economist Austan Goolsbee wrote an op-ed article in which
While we Americans tend to embrace our “exceptionalism,” people from other countries often see that as a bad thing. Britain’s prominent Christian author N. T. Wright excoriates America for our presumption in the bin Laden assassination: Popular author and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has accused
Chaplains in the navy have been told that they may perform gay marriages in navy chapels, if they are legal in the particular state and if the chaplain is willing to do so: Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of
The street in Memphis where the blues were born is underwater, as are many of the towns and cities and farms along the Mississippi river: Waging war against flooding of historic proportions that has already affected thousands of people in eight Midwestern and Southern states,
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