I just finished reading another interesting book, at least to me it was interesting. And I think I can convince you that you should consider reading it too. The book, authored by Thomas Albert Howard, is entitled God and the Atlantic: America, Europe and the Religious Divide (Oxford, 2011). It runs to 256 pages, including […]
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Once again, there is so much out there that I am somewhat at a loss to focus on a single issue. If you haven’t been hibernating early, the newsworthy items include the refugee problem, the Paris and Mali attacks, the VA travesty regarding its treatment of veterans, the Missouri-inspired (or was it Yale) episode of […]
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Refugees, Religion and Revolution
26 Nov 2015
First, I want to wish a blessed Thanksgiving to all. My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very good blog addressing the response of the West and Christians to refugees in light of the Paris attacks of last week. I would like to extend the discussion to address how the West, including the United States […]
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Totalitarianism of the Left
14 Nov 2015
Berean Jeff Haymond wrote a blog yesterday which overlapped my blog, but you should read both. His is broader. Mine focuses on the global climate change issue. A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that 27% of Democrats surveyed favor prosecuting those who do not agree with global warming. Here is the question from the Rasmussen Report […]
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The 5,500 Page Behemoth
10 Nov 2015
In this blog, I have but one question, regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has just been made available for one’s reading pleasure. Here is my question. For an agreement that is touted as a free trade compact, why do we need a 5, 500 page document (parts of which I have read)? If we […]
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My Reaction to the Campus Free Speech Issue
10 Nov 2015
The public university in America and most private universities and colleges are “dead.” By dead I mean that by and large they no longer stand for free inquiry and reasoned discussion and debate. They are being co-opted by various interest groups claiming offenses against them, sometimes by merely being a minority among a white majority. […]
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One of the more contentious topics that can be raised among Christian university faculty is that of the integration of faith with one’s particular discipline or area of knowledge. The reasons are not too difficult to discern. Mainly, most faculty at such institutions today (as opposed to a generation ago) have obtained their terminal degrees […]
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Another Modest Proposal: Part 2
03 Nov 2015
In my last post I put forth a proposal for what a new president might do to reduce regulations in the bloated “administrative state.” I will now add more fuel to the fire by suggesting what actions the new president might take to eliminate whole agencies. Yes, I did say entire Federal agencies. I won’t […]
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Another Modest Proposal
02 Nov 2015
As we watched the Democratic and Republican Party presidential debates, I have heard some, but not nearly enough, discussion of the problems of the “regulatory state,” that is, that “Fourth Branch” of government affectionately called bureaucracy. Since this is a national election, I will confine my comments to the Federal agencies such as EPA, FCC, […]
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Bernie Sanders Looks to Sweden
20 Oct 2015
In the recent Democratic Party debate Bernie Sanders told us we should look to Sweden, Denmark and Norway to see how a successful democratic socialist economic system works. I have heard others say the same thing. Even some conservatives have argued that socialism of the democratic kind works pretty well in those Scandinavian countries. Rich […]
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