I cannot claim to have known S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A’s founder, who died today, but I will sing his praises. When I was writing my dissertation at the University of Georgia, I had the opportunity to teach history and government courses at Prince Avenue Christian School in Athens, GA. I also coached varsity girls and […]

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 […]

On September 2 and 3, Cedarville University hosted theologian Wayne Grudem and economist Barry Asmus, who presented talks aimed at students and faculty on economics and human flourishing.  Much of what they said related to their relatively new book, The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution.  To summarize the book’s argument, the authors assert that […]

Michelle Nunn is the scion of a political brand. A Democrat running in what is now a deeply Republican state, Nunn is squaring off against David Perdue, a GOP businessman, for an open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. In a year when control of the Senate is in doubt, this contest, and others throughout the […]

Mr. Obama used his weekend address to try and refocus attention away from disastrous foreign policy news and to something that can motivate his base.  Even Democrats are attacking his “hands  off” approach, with Senator Dianne Feinstein calling him “too cautious.”  So its only natural that Mr. Obama would like to change the subject.    […]

“No beast is more savage than man, when possessed of power equal to his passion.” Josiah Quincey, Jr. (American revolutionary writer, 1770s) This captures the essence of human nature, apart from the grace of God, and operating in the political sphere.

“the passion for economic equality…is…a passion for getting as much as those above us in the economic scale already get rather than a passion for giving those below us as much as we ourselves already get.”              –Henry Hazlitt

Breaking financial news today is Warren Buffett’s financing of Burger King’s buyout of the Tim Horton restaurant chain.  As part of this transaction, Burger King will move its corporate HQ to Canada, known as a Tax Inversion.  Tax Inversions are increasingly popular with U.S. based companies, while being increasingly unpopular with U.S. politicians, since the […]

President Barack Obama’s golf habits have garnered significant media attention recently. Politico ran a long story on the politics of presidential golf, and Chris Cillizza, in the Washington Post, argues that Obama’s disconnectedness, symbolized by his proclivities for short pants and long drivers, threatens the Democrats’ chances in the upcoming mid-term elections. Even Jimmy Fallon, […]

Any rational person should wade into the waters surrounding Ferguson, MO very cautiously. Why? We have no idea what happened to touch off the events. We know that a young, unarmed man is dead at the hands of a police officer. We know he was shot six times. We know very little about the event […]