One of the hopes for the global financial meltdown is that China can save capitalism. More likely, though, is that we will become like China, adopting its model of letting people make money under a state-controlled economy. In other words, letting people have wealth without
Frank Sonnek alerted me to another heart-breaking phenomenon, as if we needed any more. A number of states have passed “safe haven” laws designed to allow young mothers to leave their newborn infants at a hospital or other facility with no fear of prosecution, an
The Barack Obama campaign is organizing “Camp Obamas” to train young activists to work for the cause. Specifically, they are being trained in the “community organizing” tactics of Chicago radical Saul Alinsky, whose organization gave Obama his start as a “community organizer.” See this account
Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. He came across in the debate as presidential and as connecting with the American people. He did so much more than John McCain did. That’s all Obama needed. We might as well start playing
Details about Barack Obama’s days at Columbia and the radical friends he had there are gradually coming out. One connection was Edward Said, the radical Arab activist and postmodern literary theorist, who was a professor there. We even have a photo of the two in
Sebastian Mallaby, writing in “The Washington Post,” argues that, contrary to much of the rhetoric, deregulation was not to blame for the financial meltdown. Excerpt: The key financiers in this game were not the mortgage lenders, the ratings agencies or the investment banks that created
If you want to comment on the presidential candidate debate while it’s hot on your mind, do so here. I’ll give you my verdict tomorrow.
Over at Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds is taking place an illuminating discussion of vocations. vocation. (Thanks to Neb for alerting me to this in his comment to our short break from politics.) A pastor asks for help in filling his different callings as pastor, father, and husband,
I don’t evaluate candidates on how well they spew out facts and statistics. That’s a common tactic in many debate leagues, but being able to do that tells me little. Presidents have staffs that tell them the name of the president of Nicaragua and garner
When Obama says that he was only 8 years old when Bill Ayers and his even scarier wife Bernadine Dohrn were active terrorists, he is calculating from the founding of the Weather Underground. But that group continued to exist decades later and did its greatest
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