The American share of the bailout of Europe, due to our involvement in the International Monetary Fund, may be as much as $54 billion. This will be in the form of loans that might get paid back, but still. . . . See US Exposure to
The American share of the bailout of Europe, due to our involvement in the International Monetary Fund, may be as much as $54 billion. This will be in the form of loans that might get paid back, but still. . . . See US Exposure to
Religion scholar Stephen Prothero on the current truism that all religions are essentially the same, are paths to the same destination, etc., etc.: No one argues that different economic systems or political regimes are one and the same. Capitalism and socialism are so self-evidently at
From Europe rewrites its rule book in creating fund to contain financial crisis: The massive emergency fund assembled to defend the value of the euro is backed by a political gamble with an uncertain outcome: that European governments will rewrite a post-World War II social
David Cameron is Britain’s new prime minister. This was the result of a coalition between the Conservative party and the middle-of-the-road Liberal Democrats. The Labour party is out of power for the first time in 13 years. This is the first coalition government in Britain
Well, President Obama has nominated his second Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan. She has never been a judge before–is that an asset or a liability? Rather, she is an academic, the former dean of Harvard Law–is that an asset or a liability? She has also
Before the anti-Kagan bandwagon sets off, consider this: As a White House adviser in 1997, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged then-President Bill Clinton to support a ban on late-term abortions, a political compromise that put the administration at odds with abortion rights groups. Documents
Who has seen Iron Man 2? Is it really what one critic calls it, “a virtual love letter to Ronald Reagan”? via Pajamas Media » Iron Man 2: A Love Letter to Ronald Reagan?.
The efforts of the Brits to forget a coalition government is centering, according to this article, on how to drive down the deficit, avoiding another Greek syndrome. Notice that the American deficit is just as bad, suggesting that cutting budgets and imposing austerity measures will
So concludes some Yale researchers, who have devised experiments that show babies as young as five months making moral judgments: At the age of six months babies can barely sit up – let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk. But, according to
James Kushiner at the Touchstone blog quotes an article about how the Lutheran church of Tanzania is standing up in the Lutheran World Federation to oppose the normalization of homosexuality, resolving to reject all aid from the Western Lutherans who accept gay marriage. Kushiner then
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