My alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, should ascend to the 2004 National Football championship, even though they were beaten in the BCS championship game by the University of Southern California. That team is being forced to forfeit all of their games played by star
The Egyptian government has ruled that Coptic Christians must change their doctrine about divorce and remarriage, putting them more in line with Islam: It is not enough that the Egyptian government facilitates persecution of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority. Now the government is interfering
Mark Judge is a conservative who argues that most conservatives don’t understand pop music, completely missing or misconstruing its meaning. He offers a reading of two music videos, Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” which he says is a positive treatment of Christian imagery, and Lady Gaga’s
Well, Texas has decided to stay in the Big 12, even though Nebraska and Colorado have fled. In response, the other five teams from Texas and Oklahoma have decided to stay in, rather than join the PAC-10. So there will only be ten teams in
Anne Applebaum, who is no conservative, points out that the notion that President Obama should “do something” about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico demonstrates this strange assumption held by both liberals and conservatives that our government should solve problems that are just
While browsing through the bookstore at Concordia Publishing House at my final board meeting, I came across a book entitled Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper (Counterpoints: Church Life). It featured a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist reflecting on each
Ethicist Peter Singer–he who believes in the killing of the handicapped and unwanted but born children but not animals–takes up the question of whether living is worth it. He is reviewing, in the New York Times, a book by philosopher David Benatar entitled Better Never
A cautionary tale about being too cautious: [Ron] Wayne, 76, was present at the birth of cool April 1, 1976: Co-founder, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, of Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company’s original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I
There is a new morning after pill that prevents a fertilized embryo from attaching to the mother’s womb, an abortifacient that pro-deathers want made available over-the-counter. What I’d like to concentrate on, though, is this reporter’s framing of the issue. Consider especially this last sentence:
The Washington Post reviews two Books on geoengineering: ‘How to Cool the Planet’ and ‘Hacking the Planet’. The idea is that since human beings have caused global warming, we can put other stuff into the environment to cool the planet down: As the prospect of
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