The Elitist Snob Needs to Spend Time in Palm Beach

He's trying to make inroads with Washington socialites: While publicly identifying with the nation's have-nots, the Obama administration has been cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes. Earlier this year, the Obama administration invited top editors of three of Washington's local luxury lifestyle magazines - Capitol File, DC magazine and Washington Life - to …

What We Owe the Chinese: A Debt to Equity Conversion?

The Chinese are worried about the status of the enormous sum the U.S. owes them: China's premier expressed concern Friday about its massive holdings of Treasuries and other U.S. debt, appealing to Washington to safeguard their value, and said Beijing is ready to expand its stimulus if the economy worsens. Premier Wen Jiabao noted that …

So Where Should the Centre of Christianity Be? In the United States?

"Well, for openers...where will Christianity be centred?  In the U.S.A.?  Just think!--by the way, you can read this in Position Paper 6--under the title of 'The USA religiously considered and the American way of life,' as they call it."  He gives a summary of the Paper.  The United States as a socio-political entity was set …

Those Difficult Americans Strike Again

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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