Here is the answer to complaints about Ten Commandment monuments, Christmas trees, and nativity scenes in public places. Call it art. When people say they are offended, say “but art is SUPPOSED to be offensive.” When people call such displays an establishment of religion, say,
Bill Clinton has released the names of the contributors to his $500 million William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. It is filled with puzzlers. Giving between $10 and $25 million (couldn’t the disclosures be a little more specific) was a Dominican Republic agency that fights AIDS. Wouldn’t
You liked that Christmas poem I posted earlier by the metaphysical poet Robert Southwell. Here is another one by him, one that stranger, even more vivid, and even more powerful. It’s called “The Burning Babe”: As I in hoary winter’s night Stood shivering in the
Barack Obama has asked megachurch pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. This has made gay activists furious, since Rev. Warren supported Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California: Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation
Some people in India’s state of Orissa are calling for a complete shutdown of all areas of society on December 25. Not to celebrate Christmas but to catch Christians going to church so they can be brutalized. From Christians in Orissa, India Fear Violent Christmas
In another step towards a one-world government, NBC commissioner David Stern is wanting to expand the basketball franchise to London by 2012. More than that, he hopes to establish 5 NBA teams in Europe over the next 10 years. OK, I’m exaggerating the one-world government
One of America’s Big Three automobile manufacturers does NOT need a bailout. Ford has already made changes and, despite a bad year of sales, is not in the meltdown that GM and Chrysler are in. Ford is supporting its two competitors in asking for a
That Harris poll blogged about below suggests that there is a lot of overlap between those who believe in orthodox Christian beliefs and those who believe in unorthodox supernatural beliefs. A lot of the same people believe in Jesus and the Bible and also in
A new Harris Poll gives some fascinating details about what Americans believe and don’t believe . The numbers clearly favor the proverbial Big Man Upstairs: 80 percent say they believe in God; among those who attend church weekly, the number is 98 percent. Three-quarters believe
So the New York governor might appoint to Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat the daughter of the late president Kennedy, Caroline. I realize that experienced politicians have disgraced their profession, but this still seems no reason to throw out the necessity to be qualified for public
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