From the President’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” What do you think he meant by that?
From the President’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” What do you think he meant by that?
Fla. doctor investigated in badly botched abortion: Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy. Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her
Congress and the President are poised to vote to give the District of Columbia a member of the House of Representatives. Nevermind that the Constitution clearly states that representation in that body goes only to states. George F. Will tells the tale: The D.C. House
Unemployment is rough for auto workers, mid-level managers, and retailers. Also superstar baseball players in their free-agent year. Not only has the bottom fallen out of the housing market. It’s also fallen out of the baseball free agent market. Consider: If Major League Baseball called
Does a “faith-based” charity that takes federal money have the right to hire only followers of its faith? That’s the issue, whether Christian organizations can insist on hiring Christians–or Baptist groups, Baptist; or Lutheran, Lutheran, etc. President Bush had said “yes.” Democrats have tended to
President Obama is saying that companies that accept government bailout money can pay executives no more than $500,000 a year. I too am irked by C.E.O.s of failing companies making so much money, especially when it comes in the form of bonuses. The heads of
More evidence of the repaganization of Europe, that in the spiritual void left by the secularist abandonment of Christianity, more primitive religious beliefs are rushing in: An Austrian insurance company is trying to hire only employees born under a certain sign of the zodiac. A
Anthony Sacramone says that Shusaku Endo’s Silence, the classic Christian novel about the persecution of Jesuit missionaries in Japan, is going to be made into a movie. And the director will be Martin Scorsese, no less: As Petter Chattaway reports, Scorsese, who has long wanted
My colleague both at Patrick Henry College and at World Magazine, Les Sillars, has written a sly and funny take on the New Atheists in Salvo Magazine, a “Touchstone Magazine” venture for young people. In the Screwtapian form of an address at an atheists’ convention,
President Obama said he’ll pull back the “Buy American” provisions in the stimulus package after the European Union threatened a trade war, such as the one that proved so disastrous during the Great Depression. He also stepped away from nominating two tax evaders for administrative
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