Greg Cruey of the Universities Weblog referred to my piece on the litigation between the University of California and Christian schools as "entertaining." I'm glad to be of service. Liberals are a hard bunch to entertain. Especially these days, since, if they succeed in defeating the domestic Christian Right, they still have to beat the …
Making Up Our Minds on What We Believe
In his piece Why Does Turkey Hate America? (an interesting subject in itself,) "Spengler" puts the central issue of Christianity (and Islam, for that matter) as succinctly as one could want: I have never believed that such a thing as "moderate Islam" exists, any more than I believe that "moderate Christianity" exists. Either Jesus Christ …
Today It’s Socks the Cat. Tomorrow It Will Be You.
If Hillary can dump Socks the cat, she's capable of doing anything. Our reaction:
The Two Hard Questions About Evangelicals Moving Up
D. Michael Lindsay's book Faith in the Halls of Power documents the rise of evangelicals in American society. That's an interesting subject, one that I dealt with some in Taming the Rowdies. But I think there are two hard questions that need to be answered before people on both sides get too excited about this. …
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Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians
America is not responsible for chaos in the Middle East. The Middle East has known nothing but chaos for most of its history. The colonial policy of the European powers after World War I left inherently unstable structures in place that must, one day, meet their reckoning. But America’s obsession with the surgical implant of …
Is Texas Preparing for the Inevitable?
A long time ago, I wrote Archie Lowe: Before the Republic of Texas, about a friend who became involved in the Republic of Texas militia movement. On a recent visit to Texas' Secretary of State site, I noticed two interesting sections. The first was the Texas Border and Mexican Affairs part of the site. Isn't …
Religious-based education on trial
It seems that the People's Republic of California is at it again, as a group of Christian schools is suing the University of California system, claiming that their alumni's chances for admission are impeded by the system's rejection of some of their courses. For Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Centre for Law and …
“Pray that I can be an instrument of God”
Barack Obama is at it again. He tells us that the GOP doesn’t own faith and values. But does he? "Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics," Obama said. "Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for power's sake instead of because you want …
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Maybe They Should Meet at the Tavern
The news that two court employees of the California Superior Court in San Diego are suing over not being allocated a room for a Bible study is yet another example of how Christians find themselves and their activities singled out for prohibition when the powers that be have the desire and the means (or at …
Likely Voters Reject Hillary’s Racist Proposal
It's heartening to see that likely voters have rejected Hillary Clinton's proposal for US$5,000 for every newborn in the U.S. It's been a worry that American voters, buffeted by the wild ride this decade has been and seeing the growing gap between top and bottom of the income scale, would jump at any government entitlement. …
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