A new report reveals that members of Congress are just like the rest of us . . . only much, much richer : Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. CRP says California Republican . . . . Continue Reading »
You know what you get when you spell G-O-D backwards . . . When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottomed . . . . Continue Reading »
Years ago, when I saw Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, I had heard John Mark’s thoughts on the Disney story (and agreed), so I was pleasantly surprised when a song came out of nowhere—a song that doesn’t appear on any of the soundtracks (film or musical)—when Belle leaves . . . . Continue Reading »
When you are a Christian academic with a doctorate, many people assume that you are a seminarian and thus ask you to preach. During the past couple of years, I have been called upon to do it a few times and have always accepted because it just seems like the thing one should do.Today, I had . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Dolan came to town with a hammer in his hand . My column in the New York Post on the latest moves by Archbishop Dolan: Beginnings are such difficult things, and a bishop always has to struggle to find his public place in a new town—especially on a stage as hard as New York’s. He . . . . Continue Reading »
As we move forward toward centralized bureaucratic health care control, it is worth noting the problems in countries that already have it. Ireland is apparently paying surgeons to do nothing, while surgeries are canceled because the department is over budged, and the lines grow ever . . . . Continue Reading »
A British court has ruled that the fundamental premise of Judaism—that Jews are physical descendants of Abraham—is inherently racist, and that the only determinant of religious membership can be belief. Warns Rabbi Lord Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi:“An English court has . . . . Continue Reading »
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is one of the greatest films of all time, but it severely distorts the fairy tale on which it is based. The film Beauty and the Beast has perverted the original story’s folk wisdom and its connection to reality. When I first went to see Beauty and the Beast, . . . . Continue Reading »
The House of Representatives barely squeaked through Obamacare tonight by 220-215. And it took a strong anti-abortion amendment to get that job done. From the story:As drafted, the measure denied the use of federal subsidies to purchase abortion coverage in policies sold by private . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama should be careful about what he says about the reasons Congress should vote for the overstuffed turkey that is known generically as Obamacare. From the story:President Obama cast the House’s health care reform vote, expected to happen later today, in historic terms: . . . . Continue Reading »
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