This short blog is just a follow-up to my colleague Jeff Haymond’s blog on the trade agreement before Congress now.  Dr. Haymond defended the agreement on the correct grounds that it enhanced free trade and that free trade is good for everyone, at least in the longer run (and given some short-run and inevitable disruptions). […]

It looks as if the blow-up at Northwestern University has made the liberals very uneasy.  A professor there, Laura Kipnis, who admits she herself is liberal and feminist, published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  From an article on the situation by Rod Dreher, in The American Conservative, on June 2, we read […]

Thanks to everyone who read my recent post on anthropogenic climate change (or global warming).  Owing to the excellent feedback, I think it best to write another article rather than respond individually to each reader’s reply (yes — your comments were that good!).  A preponderant theme of this discussion was the problem of evil (suffering […]

Well, in the last two days much has come to light about what the government has been doing, supposedly in the cause of protecting us from terrorism.  Some we already knew, for example the fact that agencies were collecting and storing bulk phone data.  But we did not know the FBI has been using over […]

“Let God be true though every man [and scientist] were a liar” (Romans 3:4) In the course of my teaching here at Cedarville University, students will occasionally ask me to address the issue of global warming.  Of chief concern to them, it seems, is what a Christian’s response ought to be.  Admittedly not one to […]

Today we heard a sermon on Ephesians 6: 5-9, the text about how Christian slaves and masters should act toward each other and the proper attitudes they should have.  The sermon (and my wife) prompted me to write here on the application of that text to relations in a capitalist-market society.  First, the direct and […]

Last Friday’s GDP number was horrible–a contraction of -0.7%; the revision down from an initial estimate of -0.2%.  This is in stark contrast to the Obama administration crowing over 3rd qtr 2014 GDP #s, which were over 5%–so we were told that the corner had finally been turned.  The administration and its defenders are quick […]

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination this morning. This brings the number of “declared” candidates to nine and we are still awaiting official announcements from Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Ronald Reagan’s re-animated corpse (campaign slogan–“Dead Right” or “Still More Charismatic Than […]

The Republicans, like locusts, descend onto the land, in search of the syrupy nectar that might sustain them–two parts money and one part polling numbers. Still months away from Iowa, both Rick Santorum (PA) and George Pataki (NY) have announced their candidacies for the GOP nomination. More (Walker, Christie, Kasich, Bush, Jindal, Carson) are poised […]

Sports fans and Stadium Projects Sports fans, listen up.  I am a very big fan of many sports, including that all-time draw, cross country and track (OK, maybe not).  But here is something I cannot abide, because it is simply unfair and inefficient to boot.  I am talking about the rash of new or proposed […]