Jeb is clearly the smartest guy in the family Bush. He even looks different from the others. Our poor current president is tanking across the board. Of course he has to fire the disrespectful rogue general-hero, but the dissing is hurting him nonetheless. It’s not like the leaders of other . . . . Continue Reading »
“The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses,” says political scientist Dan Drezner, “ . . . poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world.” In his amusing essay for Foreign Policy magazine, . . . . Continue Reading »
Oldest known depictions of Andrew and John among the discovery: In what is thought to be the tomb of a Roman noblewoman in the Catacombs of St. Tecla, the oldest known images of the Apostles Andrew and John have been discovered. The find was presented today a a press conference led by the president . . . . Continue Reading »
At Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the inaugural meeting of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is taking place this week. This organization brings together two predecessor ecumenical organizations, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the Reformed Ecumenical . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Today carries an interview with my friend and sometime co-conspirator, Gideon Strauss, the new chief executive officer of the Center for Public Justice. I was struck by this exchange:Define justice. How does it differ from public justice and social justice?In the biggest sense, . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh ... Bird is the word.So much could be said. But there some times that leaving people to speak for themselves seems quite . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic News Agency reports that L’Osservatore Romano has reprinted some 1985 comments by then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on the World Cup and what its fans call “the beautiful game”: “The fascination with soccer,” he wrote, “lies essentially in that it forces man . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s the attorney-client privilege and the confidence of priest and penitent, but apparently no such expectation of privacy between the president and U.S. citizens. Such was learned the hardest possible way by Caroline Jamieson, who recently penned a personal letter to President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
This is good. The nomination of Donald Berwick to head Medicare/Medicaid will not receive unanimous consent in the Senate. Berwick, SHSes will recall, supports socialized medicine and health care rationing—views that were supported by Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
“You can’t buy an Arab, but you can rent one,” said the late Abba Eban. Gen. David Petraeus “surge” strategy in Iraq amounted to putting 100,000 Sunni fighters on the payroll of the American army. Rather than continue random acts of terror against the Shi’ite . . . . Continue Reading »
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