Bowdoin's admissions director hasn't figured out what's really happening out there: “I know why it matters so much, and I also don’t understand why it matters so much,” said William M. Shain, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin. “Where we went to college does not set us up for success or keep us …
It’s the “True Love” Thing Again
The trials of Harvard student Janie Fredell's ongoing--but at least no longer solo--battle to uphold the Christian sexual ethic in her own life are yet another example of something that has been going on for a long time. I've taken some heat on this subject before, but I'll say it again: this society, and especially …
Hillary Clinton has Nothing to Lose by Ploughing On
All of the hue and cry for Hillary Clinton to quit is rubbish: Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont senator who endorsed Obama in January, said she was never going to win enough delegates, and he suggested she should throw in the towel in "the interests of a Democratic victory in November." A number of Democrats …
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Houston: The Next Great World City?
Are they really surprised at this? Given these trends, it seems likely that the next great American city will emerge from the ranks of the opportunity cities. The ultimate winner will come from those that keep up with the infrastructure needed to accommodate their growth. They also will have to deal with issues of education, …
They Were Both Radicalised by Their Pastors
Hillary Clinton's statement about Barack Obama's pastor is just a little disingenuous: Hillary Clinton stoked up the row over Barack Obama's fiery pastor today when she claimed she would have left any church where such intemperate remarks had been made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said, in her first public comments since …
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The Unobvious Problem with Shari’a
Muhammad 'Abd Al-Muttalib Al-Houni has hit up one something that most people don't think about in the whole debate about whether Shari'a should be allowed in the UK (or anywhere else in the West) or not: The concept of citizenship in Europe will change. There will be [different] classes of citizenship and of citizens, with …
Richard Russell and Tribal Wisdom
Some good stuff to think about from 1964, during the Vietnam era: Redolent of the late 1940's, (U.S. Ambassador) Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that South Vietnam might have to be run by a U.S. "High Commissioner," having himself in mind. Georgia's Richard Russell was still chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and had …
The Speech Barack Obama Should Have Never Had to Make
Barack Obama's speech on race and Jeremiah Wright yesterday is part of an issue that, should Obama do as expected and win the Democrat nomination, will certainly come up over and over again in the fall, like the YouTube videos he referred to yesterday. Jeremiah Wright and his Liberation Theology is something that no American …
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Frankie Schaeffer: Are We Really That Unpatriotic?
Frankie Schaeffer evidently doesn't like some of the things some of us have been saying about Obama and patriotism: Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the …
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Now Alan Greenspan Tell Us What a Mess We’re In
Alan Greenspan tells us the obvious: "The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War," Greenspan said in a Financial Times commentary. "It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of …
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