Super Bowl Lives Up to the Hype As a Colts fan, last night’s Super Bowl was not ideal. Any New England Patriots’ triumph is very low on my list of things to see. Being fair, though, it was a remarkable game. Both teams played at a championship level and the outcome was in doubt until […]

Its rare when secular websites wade into the faith and economics waters, but the President of the Foundation for Economic Education, Larry Reed, does a fine job here. As Reed argues, The fact is, one can scour the Scriptures with a fine-tooth comb and find nary a word from Christ that endorses the forcible redistribution […]

Romney Will Not Run for 2016 Mitt Romney has announced he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. While an already crowded field loses a strong candidate, I think the party gains through new blood. Romney is a decent man and a gifted manager. I have little doubt Mitt Romney would have made an […]

A.G. Nominee Drawing Opposition Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, began her confirmation hearings yesterday. Republican Senators were particularly curious about Lynch’s perception of President Obama’s executive order on immigration. When pressed on the matter, Lynch said Obama’s actions were reasonable and a function of his prosecutorial discretion. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed Lynch […]

It now seems that in at least a few locations in the United States—not Great Britain—we are seeing “voluntary” Sharia law courts.  As one journalist put it, this is how the formal Sharia law courts began in England.  First it was simply voluntary.  One could opt to have one’s case heard by a group of […]

Mike Huckabee on Professional Civility Potential Republican presidential candidate and former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) is taking a fair bit of grief over his perception of work place standards. Huckabee bemoaned the constant use of profanity while he was at Fox News, even among women.The fact that Huckabee’s comments have garnered such attention largely reflects […]

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 […]

Still Searching for the Holocaust’s Victims The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. has many staggering displays. One of its most powerful is a multi-floor walk through that shows hundreds of photos arranged all around four walls. They are pictures of people at play in the snow, in casual poses of love and […]

2016 Kicks Off in Iowa Like tweens to a Taylor Swift concert, Republican hopefuls flocked to Iowa this weekend, in search not of sugary pop lyrics, but corn-fed hope. U.S. Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) Freedom Summit attracted what appears to be the heavy majority of the presidential field. Politico has a helpful summary. Highlights of […]

Intuit, the maker of the popular tax software product TurboTax, has enraged customers this year in a move that significantly threatens their tax filing software dominance.  Intuit changed their software this year such that it forced previous users of its Deluxe software (the mid tier product) to purchase the Premier software (the most expensive version). […]