Republicans are reportedly working on some innovative but controversial ideas. Here are three examples: The parent tax cut Robert Stein, a conservative economist who served as deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomic analysis in George W. Bush's administration, says the tax code is unfair to one
That was yesterday. Sorry I missed it. Ascension Day marks an important event, but it is odd the way Protestants interpret it in two opposite ways. For the Reformed, that Christ ascended into Heaven means that this is where His body is, so it can’t
So what is orthodox about this teaching from an Orthodox patriarch? Church debate in Russia continues to simmer over the role of dictator Josef Stalin, but Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church has said in a Moscow sermon that the Second World War
Have you seen the ads in which General Motors says that they paid back the government bailout money? Well, George Will says that this is not exactly correct: A television commercial featuring CEO Ed Whitacre demonstrates the institutional murkiness and intellectual dishonesty that result when
More from George Will on the debacle in Greece: Greece, whose gross domestic product is below that of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, is “too big to fail,” meaning too inconveniently connected to too many big banks. Bailing out Greece really rescues European banks that
The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education celebrates its tenth anniversary with its tenth annual conference in Concordia, Missouri, June 22-24. In addition to all kinds of workshops on curriculum, teaching, and catechesis, the plenary speaker will be Rev. Thomas Korcok of the Lutheran Church
The latest in megachurch trends: Doing without a pastor, except on streaming big screen video: A new church was born Sunday morning, but, like an increasing number of congregations, it has no preaching pastor. In what has become one of the most popular church growth
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
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