The country awaits the 9 p.m. decision tonight by a Missouri grand jury on whether to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, for the killing of a black youth, Michael Brown. Passions have been inflamed since Mr. Brown’s death, and a decision not to indict is widely feared to lead to further unrest. There have […]
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Obama’s Decision Puts GOP in a Box
21 Nov 2014
President Obama’s Executive Order (which essentially places about five million illegal immigrants beyond the reach of federal law enforcement) is now, it seems, a matter of history. The media have, for a while, fixated on how the decision might influence current political dynamics, as opposed to examining the propriety of the act itself. Now that […]
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Immigration Law
19 Nov 2014
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor […]
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Earlier this fall the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics (IFWE) responded to an article I had written in September’s edition of Christianity Today. The article opened by describing the recent IFWE video, “I, Smartphone”—a 21st Century take on Leonard Read’s influential “I, Pencil” written over a half-century ago. I used the video as a […]
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What are Republicans Saying? Nothing Much Yet.
11 Nov 2014
Something was missing from the recent Republican campaign efforts. Though they did retake the Senate and several governor’s mansions, most were strangely silent on what might have been some winning issues. These included Obamacare, school reform and reforming bureaucracy and regulation. Obamacare did receive some attention, which is good, and all the new senators vowed […]
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Mandate for Republicans?
05 Nov 2014
The Grand Old Party had an excellent night. As of now, Republicans have tightened their grip on the U.S. House, 246-181 with 8 races undetermined, and stormed the gates of the U.S. Senate, picking up at least seven seats with a good possibility of two still pending in Alaska and Louisiana (which will go to […]
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Mid-Term Elections
03 Nov 2014
Let’s run through the basics. As of now, the Republicans control the House (233-199) and the Democrats control the Senate (55-45). There is little doubt the GOP will hang onto the House (most people think they will pick up some seats there), but the Senate could go either direction. There are 36 Senate seats being […]
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Now this is obvious pandering to the hard left of the Democratic Party–surely Mrs. Clinton knows better, doesn’t she? Hillary says that businesses don’t create jobs, and worse yet, this is somehow a version of “trickle down” economics that’s been tried again and again and failed. Oh, where to begin–as one of my colleagues at […]
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My Battle Against Culture Wars
16 Oct 2014
Gird your loins, fellow believers. Sharpen your spears. Lace your sandals. There are vineyards to trample and breastplates to don. Zion awaits, but only if we march apace. There are culture wars, and rumors of culture wars. The world is full of shadows, some of them treacherous and fearful. We have a mayor in Houston […]
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The feature article this week by Dr. Tison notes how Peter Conn recently wrote that Christian colleges and universities should not be accredited because they indoctrinate rather than educate. He said that they violate the foundational principle of higher education by not embracing the rational empiricist approach to knowledge exclusively. Because Christian educators recognize that […]
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