It was and is a game changer. Citizens United v. FEC has changed, or should we rather say, re-established the ground rules. A corporation, whether it is non-profit or a for-profit, can speak against issues and the candidates who hold those positions.(a) Although the First Amendment provides that . . . . Continue Reading »
I knew that global warming hysteria had badly infected Europe several years ago. Secondhand Smokette and I sojourned in France and countries Nordic. We met a friend who is a diplomat for a European country. He really hated President Bush, surprisingly, not because of Iraq—he thought we . . . . Continue Reading »
In the New York Times , Jennifer Steinhauer observes that “ Snack Time Never Ends “: Not a month goes by without someone somewhere asking me to serve up some snack for an event that one of my children will attend and that, generally speaking, will not last more than 90 minutes . . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
NRO ‘s Mike Potemra discovers that new elected Senator Scott Brown is quirkily ecumenical : Brown is a member of a church affiliated with the Calvinist-rooted Christian Reformed Church in North America. If you go on the website of his congregation, New England Chapel in Franklin, Mass., you . . . . Continue Reading »
During my first years teaching at Redeemer University College, I quickly discovered the impact I was having on students and initially found it a somewhat jarring experience. I had recently gone from being a lowly graduate student at Notre Dame’s Department of Government and International . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Monday I wrote about how a key claim in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report resembled a game of telephone rather than on carefully scrutinized research . Now another apocalyptic statement in the report turns out to be based on a report that was not even published, much . . . . Continue Reading »
Linguist John McWorter suggests it is time to revert from “African American” back to “black American” and leave the former term for the growing number of Americans that are actually from Africa: Namely, as of now, almost 1 in 10 black people are foreign-born. About 1 in 30 are . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at National Review , they’ve got a list of the top ten conservative novels written by Americans since 1950: 1. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 2. Midcentury by John Dos Passos 3. Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow 4. The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton 5. The Thanatos . . . . Continue Reading »
Can there be a more magnificent example of the love, grace and mercy of God than the conversion of our father in Christ, St. Paul? From persecutor to preacher, from murderer of the saints, to the merciful lover of all souls. The Scripture readings appointed for today are:Acts 9:1-22Galatians . . . . Continue Reading »
Some people have been hurt in the local church. For some people it’s just a rote activity, as Oprah admits, which she learned as a child. Some of us are much smarter than our local church can bear, and some cannot stand how smart the church thinks it is. Worse still for others: it will simply be completely useless. Continue Reading »
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