Have we come to this point in our culture or is this just an “outlier”? Yesterday, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md) made the following statement in a speech to Federal union members: “People do not seem to understand that so many people come to government knowing that they are not going to make the kind of […]
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Did He Really Say That?
11 Feb 2015
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First, I am a Colts fan. I grew up in Indianapolis and generally despise the Patriots, not because they are successful, but because their success has so often come at the Colts’ expense. More than any other team, New England has stood in the way of the Colts winning more Super Bowls. Second, the Patriots […]
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Christian Higher Education: Is It Possible?
18 Jan 2015
Once again I was reminded of how important it is to be vigilant in Christian colleges and universities to try to ensure they remain true to their mission as ultimately expressed in the Word of God. I was privileged to be a part of the American Enterprise’s Values and Capitalism group retreat in San Diego […]
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The New York Times recently editorialized on the decline and fall of Atlanta Fire Department Chief Kelvin Cochran. Cochran, deeply religious, lost his job primarily for publishing, and distributing to some of his staff, a book in which his adamant opposition to homosexuality was clearly articulated. The Times‘ editorial sees no free speech or religious freedom […]
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Are Terrorists Islamic?
07 Jan 2015
I just finished reading part of a transcript from an interview on MSNBC this morning of Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, and reliable liberal. The topic was the massacre of twelve employees of a Paris magazine that had spoofed the prophet Muhammed with a cartoon picture with caption. All I can say is, “Wow!” […]
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Marriage Benefits Without Marriage?
05 Jan 2015
Brigid Schulte, at The Washington Post, has written an interesting piece on Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at Brookings, and the future of marriage. Sawhill has historically promoted and defended marriage based on its economic benefits for both parents and children. For example, children in single-parent families are four times more likely to live in poverty than […]
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As we approach the new year and incidentally, Old Christmas (January 6), I thought I would leave you with a few “gifts.” These come from Federal, state and even local actions over the past year. I don’t really wish these on anyone, but they are current reality. Release of five more Guantanamo detainees, whose threat […]
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“The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil”
18 Dec 2014
D.A. Carson has a gem over on the Gospel Coalition, which is well worth a read. RATHER NAIVELY, SOME OF US THINK that if Jesus were alive today, our tolerant culture would not give him a really rough time, much less crucify him. We would simply marginalize him, treat him as if he were a […]
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The Social Justice Crowd Part Two
04 Dec 2014
I was happy to see some response to my earlier blog on the “Social Justice Crowd.” Here I would like to offer some clarifications and responses to the responses. Let me say first that Bert Wheeler gave an excellent rejoinder regarding one of the major benefits of enterprises such as Walmart: It substantially increases the […]
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Is There No American Dream? It Depends.
28 Nov 2014
Well, here is an interesting bit of supposedly bad news. An economics professor at the University of California-Davis has said he has “crunched the numbers” and found that “America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England, Or pre-industrial Sweden.” He added, “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility is because […]
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