August 6, 2009

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is going to try to make the leap from making money from newspaper subscriptions to making money from subscriptions to online news. He has announced that he will start charging people to access all of his news sites. That would include

August 6, 2009

July 30 was the day of commemoration for Robert Barnes, the English Lutheran who was martyred for his faith. I had always assumed that he was killed by Roman Catholic inquisitors, but he wasn’t. He was burned at the stake by Henry VIII, years after

August 5, 2009

The government-run insurance plan that would compete with private carriers in the proposed health care legislation would cover abortions. Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal

August 5, 2009

A study of college students has found that science majors do not lose their religion as much as humanities students do, suggesting that science is not as corrosive to faith as postmodernism is. From Christianpost.com: Results from a recent study on the impact of a

August 5, 2009

From A Canadian Newspaper Apologizes for Inventing a Scandal – NYTimes.com: In a lengthy correction, the New Brunswick newspaper said that “there was no credible support” for the article’s claim that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had pocketed the wafer during the funeral of a former

August 5, 2009

The Florida Marlins have won two World Series in their brief 17-year life span. But they have baseball’s lowest attendance figures and lowest payroll. Their strategy is whenever they get a good player to get rid of him to save money. And yet, no matter

August 4, 2009

Next year the Japanese automaker Nissan will come out with the Leaf, an all-electric car that will cost no more than its equivalent gasoline-powered model, under $30,000. GM’s Volt is expected to cost over $40,000. The Volt was supposed to come out next year when

August 4, 2009

A previously unknown composition by Mozart has been discovered, written when he was around 7 years old. His father Leopold wrote down the notes that the little tyke was playing. Get past the ad and the commentary and you can hear the piece here: By

August 4, 2009

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson discusses the financial woes of the great state of California, and then arrives at a sobering conclusion: There is also a bigger story with national implications. California has reached a tipping point. Its government made more promises than its economy

August 4, 2009

New Reformation Press is having a 10% off sale on all of its merchandise–including books, mp3 files, Rosenbladtia, really cool T-shirts. Shop here. Use tkhe promotion code nrp09.


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