Brian Williams’s leave of absence due to concerns about his truthfulness is just the highest profile of a long line of individuals who have stretched the truth. It is interesting to me that the truth matters so much to Americans in a news anchor, but so little in our political leaders. Politicfact.com has four pages […]
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Truth Telling Matters
18 Feb 2015
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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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U.S. Commitment to Religious Freedom in Decline
08 Sep 2014
A Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, was accused by her own father of illegally converting to Christianity. At one point, he accused her of committing adultery because of her marriage to a Christian man, Daniel Wani, who is also an American citizen. The story is complicated by the fact that her father is a Muslim and […]
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Islamic Radicalism Part 2
18 Aug 2014
In the previous blog on Islamic ideology I focused on the historical development of the religion of Islam and of the terrorist groups that arose later. But Islam is also a religion in its own right and is based on a written source—the Quran—which is subject to various interpretations. It is true that for a […]
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Islamic Ideology and the Islamic State
14 Aug 2014
Bereans Blog One of our Bereans colleagues e-mailed to say he wished one of us would blog on the situation in the Middle East and on Islamic radical ideology. He had watched a Heritage Foundation event on the subject, which I had seen a part of as well. Well, I will take up the challenge, […]
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Iraq and Democracy
17 Jun 2014
The incomparable Thomas Sowell tackles a basic question: why have we failed in Iraq? We fought a war, at least in part, to overthrow the Iraqi government with the goal of removing it as a threat in the “war on terror.” The U.S. determined that the best way to accomplish this goal in the long-term […]
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The United States Supreme Court has issued a ruling in the little-known but important case of Bond v. U. S. The facts are as follows: One Carol Bond discovered that her husband was having an affair with Carol’s best friend. She decided the best way to respond was to spread a poisoned chemical on surfaces […]
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She Didn’t Make the Grade
05 May 2014
Another commencement speaker bit the dust, as Condoleesa Rice, former Secretary of State, withdrew from her appointment to speak at Rutgers University, the New Jersey flagship institution of higher (or lower) education, due to the vocal and aggressive protests by a handful of faculty and students. Now let me say that I was not in […]
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Mr. Putin and economics. What next?
25 Mar 2014
Mr. Putin seems increasingly likely to get away with the effective annexation of Crimea, and many rightfully wonder what next? The rest of the Ukraine? The Baltic states? The U.S. has little appetite for military response, but can we more effectively counter the Russian bear? And should we? The first question is what should we […]
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