Two very important constitutional cases were argued yesterday and today before the United States Supreme Court. Just as an aside, I tried to get in yesterday to hear oral arguments for Bond v. US and was actually about 45th in line, but still didn’t make the cut. That shows both how important the cases are […]
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The Supremes This Week: A Big Gig
06 Nov 2013
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Christian Religion versus Environmental Religion
05 Nov 2013
We see it every day, a newspaper article or news report about what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done or might do to further regulate what it considers to be pollution. Most recently President Obama issued a statement to his agencies that he would soon be addressing global warming through some type of Federal […]
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Quote for the Day
03 Nov 2013
Since it is the Lord’s Day and since this blog deals with the Christian view of things political, economic and cultural, it seems appropriate to give this quote from one of the great theologians, political leaders and statesmen, Abraham Kuyper: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over […]
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A Threat to the Rule of Law
01 Nov 2013
Well, as many know by now, Lois Lerner has been identified as the high-ranking IRS official who illegally sent information about donors associated with Tea Party-related organizations to the Federal Election Commission. In addition we heard yesterday that someone in the IRS did leak confidential tax information to the liberal Human Rights Campaign, which immediately […]
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Happy Reformation Day
31 Oct 2013
It is time for a little “diversion” from politics and economics (partially anyway) to think for a moment about religion, in this case, the Christian religion and even more specifically, the Protestant religion. For those who are not sure, this is not really Halloween Day. Before Halloween this was Reformation Day. It was on October […]
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A Ringside Seat at “The Hearing”
30 Oct 2013
After two hours at the House Subcommittee hearing October 30 on the Obamacare rollout, I asked myself why I had come. After three and a half hours I knew. There were three things to be learned. One: Politicians of all stripes certainly do like to hear themselves talk, and especially, today, Democrats who had little […]
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It is always difficult to compile a “top ten” list of anything. But the concept of justice is especially difficult. Besides the usual problem of my own bias, there is also the potential for misunderstanding why something is on a list and something else omitted. So let me briefly explain. First I am putting this […]
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Quote for the Day
29 Oct 2013
I came across this quote from a letter written by William F. Buckley, Jr. to Henry Kissinger on the subject of utopian ideas and utopian dreamers, many of whom reside right here in Washington, DC. “We must do what we can to bring hammer blows against the bell jar that protects the dreamers from reality.” […]
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The Great Fact
15 Oct 2013
Once again the “Great Fact” was brought home to me in the morning sermon at my church. The Great Fact is not popular among non-Christians and not very popular among many calling themselves Christians. Instead autonomy and self-interest tend to rule the day. You could also say that many in the church as well as […]
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I have heard much talk in the last few months to the effect that market advocates, conservatives (in the American sense) or classical liberals (to use a broader sense) have failed to make their case. They have not “sold” their ideas well, to use a marketing analogy. Alberto-Benegas Lynch has addressed this issue in an […]
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