Barack Obama's trip to France evidently means full employment for his interpreter, as this earlier CBS piece informs us: “I don't speak a foreign language. It's embarrassing!” Barack Obama exclaimed today at town hall meeting here. Obama, who often touts his time growing up overseas, made the confession while speaking about the importance of teaching …
Is Turkey the Next Islamic State?
Jesus said that "But, if he does not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that 'on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.'" (Matthew 18:16) So it was with great interest that I saw two very different Asia Times Online writers opine that …
The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline
From First Things: Among conservative Christians, much attention is devoted to the question of whether the hole in public life can be filled by either Catholicism or the evangelical churches. I have my doubts. The evangelicals may have too little church organization, and the Catholics may have too much. Besides, both are minorities in the …
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Message to Barack Obama: Why My Family Business Left Chicago
Back in May, Steve Sailer quoted the following from Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father: As we walked back to the car, we passed a small clothing store full of cheap dresses and brightly colored sweaters, two aging white mannequins now painted black in the window. The store was poorly lit, but toward the …
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Unlawful Conjugal Relations, and the Double Standard of Money and Islam
The woes of a British publisher who was jailed in Dubai for "unlawful conjugal relations" (i.e., with someone she's not married to) in public makes me think of the obvious: what if someone was jailed for this in a "Christian" country with a lot less money (and that's most of them these days, compared to …
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But What if the Food is Really Bad?
The Brits have gone "over the top" again on political correctness, this time with food preferences: Toddlers who say "yuck" when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says. The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph …
When Christian Ministers Bail Out on Marrying People
In the wake of California's mandating same sex civil marriages, some in that state are considering just that: Some clergy think churches should divorce themselves from the wedding business. The controversy over same-sex marriage – along with a growing sense that many couples who marry in churches never return – has prompted faith leaders to …
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Indonesia: Today Ban Ahmadiyya. Tomorrow, Ban…
Most Christians have never heard of this Muslim sect, but in Indonesia they've got a target on their backs: A breakaway Islamic sect's struggle to survive has become a major test of tolerance for Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country. Conservative, hardline Muslims are confronting moderates over the existence of Ahmadiyya, a 100-year-old minority sect …
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Iranian Firm to Build Hydroelectric Project in West Africa
The Iranian firm FARAB has recently been award a contract from the goverment of Mali (in west Africa) for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant at Kénié, 35 kilometres from the capital of Bamako. Construction is scheduled to begin in July 2008. The power plant will have a capacity of 35 MW, using Pelton …
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On Dobson, Obama, and the Road to Eternal Life
I have to say that the back and forth between James Dobson and Barack Obama on the Bible is one of the least edifying discussions we have going this election year. So Obama says that Leviticus tells us we can't eat shellfish? Evidently Jeremiah Wright, like many of his counterparts on the right, never bothered …
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