It seems like a good time to move from discussions about Islam to Global Warming or, to accept the new view, Global Climate Change (GCC). Believe it or not, this topic has a Christian dimension, even though it might not be immediately evident. We will get to that in due time. To begin, let’s review […]
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A Change of Climate
02 Mar 2015
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SOTU and Inequality (Once Again)
27 Jan 2015
In light of the State of the Union Address by President Obama, I am compelled once again (as if I were a “broken record”) to address the President’s proposals to raise taxes on “the rich” in order to reduce inequality and provide new services to those with lower incomes. Perhaps there are some new readers […]
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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 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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The Social Justice Crowd–Again.
02 Dec 2014
Kevin Williamson, writing for the National Review, has perfectly captured the sentiments I have expressed on the Bereans blog on several occasions, when he wrote that the “anti-Walmart” protesters are in reality just calling for the poorer among us to be stiffed. Williamson contrasted the elite culture, whim he labeled the “Rolex crowd,” with 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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One of the sad ironies of the rioting in Ferguson in the aftermath of the decision by the grand jury not to indict is that the destruction that occurred is ultimately directed at African-American communities. As Henry Hazlitt put so well in his book Economics in One Lesson, it is the mark of a good […]
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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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Big Jets, Envy and Christian Responses
17 Nov 2014
It looks like the media are again raising the specter of inequality. The New York Times, whom no one would confuse with a conservative newspaper, in a November 15, 2014 article, now seems to be lamenting the fact that some “super rich” people are purchasing bigger private jets, “leaving behind” the mere wealthy. I didn’t […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
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