Two of the Repubican presidential candidates, the alleged front-runner Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, are Mormons. Both addressed the Faith & Freedom Coalition, an organization of conservative Christian political activists: “I came today not to give a political speech,” former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr.
We had been blogging about how President Obama has been ignoring the War Powers Act in waging war in Libya without Congressional consent. Now Congress has overwhelmingly struck back, with a bipartisan 3/4 of the House calling him on it: Crossing party lines to deliver
What if everyone stops lending the U.S. government money? China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011,
We had been discussing Lucas Cranach’s seal of the winged serpent, crowned with a ring, and what it might mean. Thanks to Tom Hering for digging up this scholarly article by Wayne Martin, professor of philosophy of the University of Essex, who offers a reading
San Francisco is considering a bill that would ban circumcision. There would be no religious exemptions. Voters will vote on the measure in November. Now it turns out that the author of the bill runs an anti-semitic website: Author of SF’s Anti Circumcision Initiative Engages
Free market economics has a way of evening things out. A country with low labor costs can attract lots of employers, who bid up the price of labor. And as that country prospers, it may start looking for cheaper labor in countries that have high
A food-poisoning epidemic in Europe is reportedly caused by a super-toxic strain of the E. coli bacteria: Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe’s worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a “super-toxic” strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new. But while suspicion has fallen on
You know those computer-animated-and-voiced clips on YouTube that have been going around in the genre of Lutheran satire? On subjects such as what pastors hate? “Not that kind of Lutheran”? “Messing with Dispensationalists”? They are from Pastor Fiene. He posts them and sometimes talks about them
Michael Lind, at Salon, no less, explodes the conventional wisdom: Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the
Demagoguing Medicare reform proposals. From the Washington Post fact checker: “The Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them, ‘You know
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