Though some polls show the race tightening, many liberals are expecting a Reaganesque landslide and fantasizing about what they accomplish with a huge House majority and a filibuster-proof Senate. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter hails the new era of liberalism that is on the verge of being
Baylor is getting criticized for offering students $300 to re-take their SAT exams, with $1000 for improving their scores 50 points or more. The university, facing ridicule, has stopped the practice. See Baptist School ‘Goofed’ in Offering Perks for SAT Retakes. Baylor wants higher scores
There is so much more to Barack Obama’s tax plan than the soundbite version that everyone who makes less than a quarter million will get a tax break. First of all, the plan will give money to people who do not pay taxes. It also
From an AP report, San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution: In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest. San Francisco would become the first
India has launched a probe that will orbit the moon. It will also send down the flag of India to join those of the United States, Russia, and Japan. In the meantime, the American space program, which will soon retire the space shuttle, will depend
Joel Kotkin, the “new urbanist,” thinks our economic problems could have a good effect on our culture. Problems in the housing market could keep people from moving so much; high energy prices could keep folks closer to home and encourage them to buy food and
At Missouri State University, in Springfield, a pro-life group put up 4,000 crosses made of popsicle sticks to symbolize little graves of abortion victims. So pro-abortion students trampled them, destroying the display. When called on their vandalism, the pro-choicers said they were just exercising their
A usually reliable sports reporter says that former Packer Brett Favre called up the coach of the Detroit Lions to reveal his former team’s secrets. The Packers beat the Lions soundly and Favre is denying that he did it, but still there is evidence it
The New York Times reports on violent persecution of Christianity in India. FromHindu Threat to Christians : The family of Solomon Digal was summoned by neighbors to what serves as a public square in front of the village tea shop. They were ordered to get
The definitive answer to why pastors should not endorse candidates from the pulpit was given yesterday in my pastor’s sermon on rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s(Matthew 22:15-21). The sermon focused on the latter part of that statement: “what
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