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
Heritage Foundation scholar Stuart Butler identifies a major problem for a representative democracy: Never mind what your politics are, there is something very wrong with a democracy in which lawmakers routinely vote on huge bills they have not even read. In fact, congressional bills have
I’m involved with an editing project that involves different people contributing essays on literary and biblical texts. A couple people working on the latter use “Yahweh” as the name of God. That comes from the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, the exact vowel pointing for which in the
The abuse of government expense accounts by the ruling Labour Party lawmakers and ministers in England is threatening to bring down Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Some of the misuse of money is on a grandiose scale, but to me this one, involving such a small
Auto dealers are pleading with Congress–their companies’ new board of directors–for mercy, now that Chrysler has shut down 789 local dealerships and GM is set to close 1,100 as a start. I don’t understand how cutting down the number of sales outlets is going to
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