Daniel Pipes posted this evaluation of the State Department’s decision (dictated by Obama) to overrule a longstanding ban on permitting the Islamist academic Tariq Ramadan to enter the US:Jan. 20, 2010 update: From today’s Associated Press:Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton . . . . Continue Reading »
Be sure to check out Hadley Arkes’ comments today On the Square regarding yesterday’s supreme court decision. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have boundless regard for Paul Volcker, but the proposed restrictions on bank proprietary trading are, well, fixing the barn’s roof after the horse has bolted. The Obama administration really,really doesn’t get the joke. The banks went bankrupt by loading up on supposedly ultra-safe, . . . . Continue Reading »
What if I told you the only significant influence the President has on the economy is in selecting the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? While the role of the president in managing the economy is often overstated, most serious voters would rightly dismiss such a narrow claim as absurd. Yet how often . . . . Continue Reading »
In an article in the January issue of First Things , professor Reuven Brenner suggests revising immigration policy to maximize the influx of “the vital few whose contributions to economic growth is disproportionately high.” Jeffrey Mirus, president of CatholicCulture.org , believes this . . . . Continue Reading »
The Christian Church Year is such a blessing. Many people who are new to the Lutheran Church, or other liturgical churches, coming from general evangelical protestantism, are unfamiliar with the ancient custom of observing a series of festivals, also known as “feasts,” and unique times . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a graphic that, Rev. James Douthwaite, at St. Athanasius Lutheran Church in Vienna, Virginia, uses to explain how we should always factor in the Cross when we consider our relationship to God and His relationship to us. (A parishioner made this visual image.)So, in God’s relationship . . . . Continue Reading »
Thirty seven years ago today (January 22) the Supreme Court issued its infamous decision, asserting that women have a Constitutional right to terminate the life of their unborn children for virtually any reason.Two years ago on my blog I interview Robert P. George about the decision and its . . . . Continue Reading »
Huge victory! It looks like Obamacare is dead—at least in its present iteration. From the story:Congressional Democrats are abandoning their massive health care package in the face of strong public resistance manifested in the election of Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts to . . . . Continue Reading »
“I have hidden your Word in my heart,” Psalm 119:11 The above quote gives us the leitmotif of the movie, The Book of Eli. Eli is the messenger of God, who carries the Logos in his “heart” and represents the last hope of mankind. As the movie opens mankind has engaged in what the . . . . Continue Reading »
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