Joe Carter at First Things is leery of the Tea Party Movement, saying that true conservatives don’t like enthusiasm or protest demonstrations. He proposes an alternative program to limit government: The Wet Blanket Movement. Unfortunately, he says, the proper leader of this movement is dead.
Most of it, at least: A U.S. judge has blocked the most controversial provisions of a new immigration law in the southwestern state of Arizona, one day before the measure was to go into effect. The federal judge Wednesday blocked the part of the law
We have blogged earlier about the phenomenon of “temporary marriage” in Shi’ite Islam, which sanctions sexual immorality by allowing a man to “marry” a woman and then “divorce” her after a one-night stand. Now a mosque in Iran is, in effect, setting up a prostitution
I am not what you would call an early adopter. Our one-and-half year old granddaughter was poking the buttons on our television set and somehow she broke the thing! The screen would light up, showing no picture, and then fade to black. Since that set
Profits are way up, but employment is way down. Harold Meyerson is worried about what he sees as a new business model: In the mildly halcyon days before the 2008 crash, the one economic outlier was wages. Profit, revenue and GDP all increased; only ordinary
Great Britain has a state-run health care system, having taken over virtually all medical care at little or no cost to the individual. That’s what many people in this country would also like to see eventually. But now the incredibly expensive British system has to
Consider not only this unspeakable sacrilege but the reason given for commiting it: St. Peter’s Anglican Church has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open, it seems, they won’t turn anyone away. Not even a dog. That’s how a blessed canine
That post about the Post Office contained an intriguing concept. It accuses the USPS of acting like Kodak, which hung onto its chemical film business even after the digital camera was invented. The syndrome is “looking at the future as a variant of the present.” This
The U.S. Postal Service is having financial problems again and is proposing higher postage feeds and cutting out Saturday deliveries. What, though, do you get in your mail these days? In an age of e-mails and electronic banking, do we even need snail mail anymore?
Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all of you who are using Cranach as your Amazon portal. Going to that site from here, using the Amazon search box in the sidebar, gives this blog a commission on
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