Joe Carter reports that the president has disbanded the President’s Council on Bioethics: Earlier this week, members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House that their services were no longer needed. President Obama’s decision was made and implemented in his
It had occurred to me that if the government runs a cheaper insurance program than private companies, that most people will get the government plan. And that if the government will insure people who don’t have insurance, that private companies will stop providing that benefit
Happy belated Father’s Day to all fathers and people who have had a father, which includes everybody. To mark yesterday, University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox writes about the myths that journalists regularly trot out for the occasion. I’ll just list the myths, and
For Father’s Day, I got taken out to a Washington Nationals’ game. The Nationals are one of the league leaders in run scored and batting average. Their first three batters are hitting over .300, and the cleanup hitter is one of the leading home run
As I mourn the loss of Strange Herring and continue to mourn the loss of Luther at the Movies, I’ve been thinking about Lutheran humor. I do think there is a distinct Lutheran comic tradition. Consider the just-alluded to blogger Anthony Sacramone, Gary Larsen of
The L.A. Times tells of a revolutionary idea that will save millions in welfare costs: Pay unemployed parents to take care of their own kids: Supervisors suggest putting unemployed parents to work caring for their own children as part of proposed changes to CalWorks and
A lot of us Oklahomans have tied the mattresses to the top of our cars and headed out of state looking for work. No matter where we live, we’ll still be Okies to our dying day, but we end up spread out all over the
I’m on the board of Concordia Publishing House, and we have invested some money in rehabilitating the Reformation-era school building in Wittenberg right next to Luther’s church, housing a bookstore, a visitors’ center, and a new confessional congregation in that city. I was surprised to
In the recent post about the elections in Iran, tODD commented that he was surprised to see us conservative Christians pulling for the liberal secularists over our fellow conservative religious types. (tODD was thus doing what he had earlier argued the press was not doing,
“Conservatives” Are Single-Largest Ideological Group: Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it
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