The Treasury department is spending $250 billion to buy stock in nine of our largest banks, thus giving them capital to lend. From The Washington Post: The U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in
Here is a powerful column from Uwe Siemon-Netto, the German journalist who runs the Institute of Lay Vocation at Concordia Seminary In St. Louis. I post it in full, with his permission. Please read it to the very end, where you will find a detail
Today is Columbus Day. Please honor the occasion by gathering around your family, talking to your friends and neighbors, and mentioning to your casual acquaintances that it isn’t true that people believed that the world was flat until Columbus proved them wrong! The ancients believed
The number of Amish has grown 84% since 1992, to a total of some 231,000. To deal with that growth–and also to escape the suburbanization that has encroached on some of their traditional rural settlements in the Midwest–Amish are migrating, buying land, and establishing settlements
. . .we wouldn’t be having this financial meltdown! Washington Post columnist Ross Douthat puts the blames our current financial meltdown on George Bailey, of Frank Capra’s masterpiece It’s a Wonderful Life: Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey was actually a pretty savvy businessman. And it’s even
In a case we have blogged about in the past, a Canadian human rights tribunal has acquitted columnist Mark Steyn of the charge of “hate speech” for criticizing Islam. See Mark Steyn acquitted in Canadian sharia case.
Nathaniel Peters at the First Things blog quotes a friend of the court brief filed by Mother Theresa in a 1994 abortion case. An excerpt: Your opinion stated that you did not need to “resolve the difficult question of when life begins.” That question is
Now I know something of what I was looking for: documentary evidence that Barack Obama at least WAS a hard-left radical. Not just in his college days but when he ran for the state Senate in Illinois. Thomas Lifson summarizes the case in Archives prove
More notorious than Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers is his wife, Bernadine Dohrn. Shouldn’t the media investigate the law firm headed by Ayers’ father that employed both Dohrn and, for a summer, Obama? From Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed: For those of you unfamiliar with
What do you think an Obama presidency will–or would–be like? Keep in mind that the Democrats would control not only the presidency but the House and the Senate so will pretty much be able to do whatever they want. Keep in mind too that the
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