From a piece about Harry Reid’s difficult re-election campaign: Reid has what some political strategists refer to as an “Al Gore problem.” It is widely believed that Gore would have won the 2000 campaign if he would have just stayed out of public view for
Pro-Obama pundit Dana Milbank notes a curious fact about the President’s campaign speeches: As he barnstorms the country in these closing days before the midterms, he has borrowed Bill Clinton’s 1994 stump speech — in some cases, word for word. “It’s up to you to
Today is All Saints’ Day. It commemorates the Christians who have gone before us and the way Christians can help each other in the “communion of saints.” Use this space to tell about a “saint” who impacted your life. Not anybody famous. I’d like to
I’ve been reading some Reformation Day reflections by Roman Catholics, some of whom have expressed a little grudging appreciation for Luther, while blaming him for splitting the Church. (You can find some here.) But Luther was excommunicated. Why? Because he criticized the sale of indulgences.
The estate tax kicks back in on December 31, unless Bush’s tax cuts are extended. Reportedly, some elderly folks who want to give a big inheritance to their children planning to discontinue life-saving medical treatments so as to die before that date. So says Wyoming
In honor of Reformation Day on Sunday, let’s make our own theses for the Reformation of today’s church and post them not on a church door but, in accord with our new information technology, here on this blog. A thesis is ONE SENTENCE, stating a
Take a thesis you want to discuss from the thread above, copy and paste it into a comment on this post, and talk about it, whether to expand upon the point or agree with it or take issue with it or whatever. (Again, do that
Lutheran pastors must be considered cool, at least in popular fiction. There is the one in Warrior Monk. Now bestselling author John Grisham features one in his latest blockbust of legal suspense, The Confession. From a review in the Washington Post: The novel opens with
The good thing about becoming a Third World country is that foreign countries will outsource their manufacturing to us. From The Washington Post: GREER, S.C. – When German automaker BMW put out the call recently to hire a thousand factory workers here, the people who
Robert J. Samuelson on why are political divisions are growing, even as most Americans get along with each other pretty well, despite their political differences: It’s not that the public has become sharply polarized. In 2010, 42 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, 35 percent
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