We're at loggerheads with the rest of the G20 over economic recovery: A simmering row about the whole point of the G20 meeting on April 2 burst into the open when Larry Summers, chief economic adviser to President Obama, called on other countries to follow America's lead in pumping even more money into stimulus plans …
Regulating How Churches Govern Themselves
The Connecticut legislature, for the moment at least, throws in the towel on trying to restructure Roman Catholicism: State legislators have tabled for the rest of the session a controversial bill that would have mandated changes in the corporate structure of parishes and institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church... The proposed bill raised by the …
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The War on Plastic Retail Bags is Stupid
Even if Apple is waging it: AppleInsider's Prince McLean reported Saturday that Apple's retail stores are implementing a new "no plastic bags" policy in order to cut back on unnecessary packaging. According to the report, customers making more than a comfortable handful of purchases in the store will be offered assistance to their car or …
Liberal Charities: Avoiding Being Victims of Obama’s Taxes
They're screaming bloody murder these days: Among those shocked by President Obama's 2010 budget, the most surprising are the true-blue liberals who run most of America's nonprofits, universities and charities. How dare he limit tax deductions for charitable giving! They're afraid they'll get fewer donations, but they should be more concerned that Mr. Obama's policies …
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Go Ahead. Stuff the Money in the Mattress. Just Like the French Do.
I think our President is reading my blog: In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration. The president said he could not assure Americans the economy would begin growing again this year. But he pledged that he would “get …
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The Provincial Hillary Clinton
There's no other explanation for it: Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's... A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding: "I …
Is Barack Obama William Beveridge Reincarnated?
One of those things that you run into in religious dialogue is the subject of reincarnation or, to use the fancy term, transmigration of souls. There were even those who thought that that John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnated: “When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--“Who are you?”, …
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Americans Gripe About Bailing Out Mortgage Holders, But Europeans Gripe About…
...bailing out countries: TUMBLING exchange rates, gaping current-account deficits, fearsome foreign-currency borrowings and nasty recessions: these sound like the ingredients of a distant third-world-debt crisis from the 1980s and 1990s. Yet in Europe the mess has been cooked up closer to home, in east European countries, many of them now members of the European Union. …
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Rewarding Rebellion, Episcopal Style
The Episcopal Bishop of Western Kansas has a point: Now I read that the "New" Diocese of Fort Worth passed a $632,466 dollar budget for a part-time bishop, a little over 19 priests and 62 delegates who represent way less than a thousand people, and $200,000 is from the General Convention budget!... If I, as …
Karl Rove: The Show Trials Begin
As I had predicted last year, we have this: Although he says it could turn into a "show trial," Karl Rove tells FOX News he is looking forward to telling the House Judiciary Committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Until now, …
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