This is why it's important to shout back at the pastor up the street, or at the pastor on the radio -- even if that pastor is also a former governor. If their voices go unchallenged -- unanswered, unquestioned, unmocked -- then we allow them to empower bullies and to make marginal minorities "susceptible to abuse and violence." Read more
The payroll taxes of younger workers do not go into "retirement accounts" that will someday provide the benefits for those younger workers. The payroll taxes of younger workers go to pay current benefits to those Pickler calls "today's seniors." The younger workers, when they get older and become tomorrow's seniors, will in turn collect benefits paid for by the payroll taxes of the younger workers of the future. Read more
Christian school official fired for links to community theater. How Kim finally landed a job interview. They're coming for your birth control. Keeping "those people" out of town by blocking mass transit and by selective policing. Warnings of the "homosexualist juggernaut," and more. ... Read more
Jeremiah 22:3: "Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place." Read more
"Where are we going?" "Ephrata. It's in Lancaster County." "What's in Ephrata?" "A Ku Klux Klan rally." He wasn't kidding. ... Read more
Despite what the headline says, archaeologists in Turkey didn't say they'd found a piece of Jesus' cross. They said they found a relic that someone 1,350 years ago probably believed was a piece of Jesus' cross. All of which reminds me of a scene from Michael Hollinger's play "Incorruptible." Read more
Brand new Sumatran tiger cubs are doing well at the National Zoo. Plus a bunch of weekend links, including: kids on bikes foil kidnapper; poets for hire; why "Virgins Make Good Role Models for Their Children;" and "banking on the hope that God's not a monstrous jerk." Read more
But the threat of Finnish scholars coming over here and writing monographs on the third person of the Godhead? The Department of Homeland Security is all over that. Read more
Broadly speaking, we expect good characters to have good motives and evil characters to have evil motives. Rayford Steele doesn't fit into such tidy categories. He has horrible motives, but he seems to believe -- sincerely -- that his motives are good. He's a bad guy who thinks he's one of the good guys, a cad who thinks he's a gentleman, a jerk who thinks he's a mensch, a negligent bystander who thinks he's a hero. Read more
Christian college trades philosophy department for gun range (really). Racist protesters turn racist at racist protest. "The Supreme Court will soon decide if CEOs can impose their religious convictions on the people who work for them." Nobody likes Tom Corbett. Detroit trying to steal from workers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Pat Buchanan are different people. For an allegedly dying steel town, Braddock, Pa., seems pretty cool. Read more
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