President Obama has announced his plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan. President Obama introduced his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan yesterday with a threat assessment familiar from the Bush administration. “The terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks,” he said, are continuing
If we have to be like the Europeans, perhaps we should consider one of their other political model in addition to Social Democracy. After all, unlike our two party system, the parliamentary democracies have lots of parties and thus lots of political options are in
President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel, Dawn Johnson, has been reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and awaits a vote from the floor. She earlier served as the legal counsel for NARAL, the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League.
It is widely being said–including approvingly by liberals–that the Obama administration is adopting the governmental and economic model known as “Social Democracy,” as practiced widely in Europe. If so, we should know more about this system. This is from the entry for “Social Democracy” in
Still-Communist China is having to deal with a new dissident movement that is hard to quell. From the Washington Post: Parents groups such as Zhao’s — whose members’ children were hurt or killed in various tragedies such as the milk scandal, the Sichuan earthquake and
Our sermon yesterday was based on the text about James and John asking to sit at Christ’s right hand and His left when He comes into His glory (Mark 10:36-38). This angered the other disciples, but, interestingly, Jesus did not rebuke them. He wants us
I want to apologize to the Oklahoma Sooner basketball team, to my fellow alumni, the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Oklahoma, and to the citizens of the state of Oklahoma. As I have complained before, when I watch a basketball game, my
I’m enjoying playing with the bells and whistles we’ve added to this blog. One annoyance, though, as some of you have also complained, is that when you click “comment,” the IntenseDebate software throws you all the way to the bottom of the comments, letting you
Turning its attention away from trivial issues such as the economy, bailouts, overseas contingencies, and fundamental shifts in American principles, the Senate is finally addressing something of national concern: Who gets to be #1 in college football. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust will be
More from Charles Murray, who cites “journalistic and scholarly accounts of a spreading European mentality that goes something like this”: Human beings are a collection of chemicals that activate and, after a period of time, deactivate. The purpose of life is to while away the
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