I had been reading a number of articles–like this one and this one–saying that Iran’s middle class and its young people, who are secular at heart, may well vote their radical president out of office. But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected in a landslide. Supporters of
Lars Walker, a frequent commenter on this blog, is a novelist of note. He is also a Christian and a Lutheran. His faith comes out loud and clear in his fiction, but, unlike many “Christian novelists,” he is not preachy or sappy or didactic. With
Today, June 12, is the anniversary of the Council of Nicea, held in 325 A.D. to clarify that Jesus Christ was and is both true God and true Man. Out of that council came The Nicene Creed: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
Victor Davis Hanson explicates the postmodernist philosophy that animates our government today: One of the chief tenets of postmodernism is relativism — the notion that neither morality nor wisdom is absolute and definable, but instead simply predicated on what those with power and advantage say
Jonah Goldberg asks why liberals laugh indignantly when conservatives say that President Obama’s economic policies are socialist, when they themselves in other contexts praise his policies for being socialist: The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind
Theistic evolutionists say they believe in God while also believing in Darwinism. They maintain that God used evolution as His way of creating the world. But the whole point of Darwinism is that the process of mutation and natural selection is random and undirected! If
I have often said that ANY subject can be made interesting by good writing. As an example, I have often used writing about cars. I’m not all that interested in them, but I enjoy reading good writing about them. Consider, for example, Car Talk with
In case you missed it, Lisa R., in the post about lawmakers passing bills without reading them, proposed this list of congressional reforms: This is my plan for the U.S. Congress: 1) Congress should meet every other year; when not in session, members must return
Warren Cole Smith is an evangelical journalist who has just published a book entitled A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church. He summarized his quarreling points in an interview with The Charlotte Observer: Among his more provocative charges: “For the sake of money and power
From Obama proposes making ‘pay-as-you-go’ the law – CNN.com: President Obama on Tuesday proposed making “pay-as-you-go” rules for federal spending into law. The so-called PAYGO proposal requires Congress to balance any increased spending by equal savings elsewhere, Obama said in announcing the measure that now
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