Remember how government bonds have been considered a sure investment because they are backed by “the full faith and credit” of the United States of America? Well, the Standard & Poor bond rating agency is having its doubts about what our government’s “full faith and
One of the best things I’ve read on the Tiger Mother controversy is this column by Pam Nielsen in the Lutheran Witness: If you are a parent, your children are your vocation and your most important calling. God sets the standard for you: “Fathers, do
Nigeria elected a president, the incumbent, who received twice the votes of the other candidate. But the president is a Christian, so Nigerian Muslims are rioting, setting fires, and protesting the election: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has won a presidential election with results being reported
Pastor William Weedon explains about the appointed readings for Holy Week: Why did we read about BOTH the triumphal entry and the Passion and death of our Lord in the Palm Sunday liturgy. First, remember that the observance of “this happening” on “the same day”
If there is a Pulitzer Prize for most sanctimonious piece of journalism, this piece by Sally Kohn in the Washington Post should win and the prize should thereafter be retired. She starts off with how liberals–actually, President Obama–have been pushed around by conservatives lately. She
Some good new words here: Inactivity Studies; Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (a.k.a. NEAT). Also, I daresay, some good advice: James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has an intense interest in how much people move — and how much they don’t. He
A new word for people who got rich from British Petroleum from the oil spill in the Gulf: The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. So
A new study demonstrates what might seem perfectly obvious but which still needs to be demonstrated: That there is a distinct and measurable bias in academia against political conservatives and (especially) conservative Christians. See Preferred Colleagues – Innovations – The Chronicle of Higher Education. HT:
A discussion of Spain’s financial woes blames in part Prime Minister Zapatero’s postmodernist worldview: Economists both inside and outside of Spain had been warning for many years that the country’s construction boom was unsustainable, and that urgent measures needed to be taken to diversify the
A church played a major role in baseball history: Sometimes, matters of faith have a quiet yet powerful way of influencing history. Take, for example, the behind-the-scenes story that preceded the entry of the first African-American player to major league baseball more than six decades
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