2010-03-31T05:00:31-04:00

The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages.  Congressmen could hardly have read what they were voting for.  Who knows what all is in there?  There may be all kinds of surprises.  For example, to the dismay of many liberals, funding for abstinence education–which

2010-03-30T06:00:24-04:00

Why do so many Americans have such a visceral reaction against the new health care law?   It seems to me like a bad law, poorly thought through and terrifyingly expensive, especially given our present deficits.  But I’m thinking that even if it were not so

2010-03-30T05:50:18-04:00

I’m not a Sinead O’Connor fan, but the Irish singer–notorious for tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul on “Saturday Night Live” some years ago–has written a scathing op-ed piece on the priest child-molestation scandal coming out  in Ireland.  She herself says that she

2010-03-30T05:45:18-04:00

So, how are your NCAA basketball brackets going? Did ANYONE pick Butler, Michigan State, West Virginia, and Duke to be in the Final Four? I gave up after Kansas, one of my alma maters, got upset. Reason and reason alone would suggest Duke, the only

2010-03-30T05:00:39-04:00

Thanks to tODD for actually doing research on that piece I blogged about by Civil Rights activist turned conservative Roy Innis, accusing the Obama administration of devastating Ghana because of its global warming mandates: This article appears to be less than truthful. I searched on

2010-03-29T05:45:54-04:00

“For we call this Holy Week not just because of the holy things that happened,or because of the Holy One they happened to –but because this is the week that makes you holy.” Rev. James Douthwaite.

2010-03-29T05:30:40-04:00

We had a wonderful Palm Sunday service, and the sermon was on a text that I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before, Deuteronomy 32:36-39.  Moses says that “When he sees that their power is gone,” that is the time when “the Lord will vindicate his

2010-03-27T05:15:54-04:00

As I mentioned, I’ve been doing a series of interviews on Issues, Etc., about the new edition of my book Spirituality of the Cross Revised Edition. When we were talking about my chapter on Vocation, the producers were playing some music to go along with

2010-03-27T05:02:45-04:00

Spring training!  Hope springs anew.  Even for the Washington Nationals, last place though they were last year.  They stocked up on promising young pitchers and signed the aging future Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez to catch them.  And the pitching phenomenon Steven Strasburg they drafted

2010-03-26T06:00:50-04:00

Religion journalist Julia Duin reports on church giving during the recession: The nation’s churches are staggering under the depressed economy, with more than one-third reporting decreases in giving last year, according to a survey. A “State of the Plate” survey of 1,017 churches sponsored by

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