Roger Cohen has hit upon an most important issue for American presidents, both the one we have and the one we're trying to elect: A weak dollar, outsized personal debt, a massive current account deficit, cash-strapped banks and Asian governments purchasing U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the national debt are not signs of American strength. …
To Leave is to Die a Little
Robert Easter's lamenting of the backwash of departing from the Episcopal Church has some merit: I'm not saying everyone needs to stay in "TEC," because many people who have been in it for any amount of time are probably too conditioned by the milieu to stand up against it or ask the hard questions. But …
If She Has Foreign Friends, So Should We
Dick Morris' reminder of the support from foreign sources that the Clintons have received over the years isn't particularly earthshaking. It isn't really news; their dealings with the Chinese were well known when they occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of the role of foreign influence in another Clinton administration. The …
Message from South Florida: Give ’em the boot!
It should come as no surprise that the message from South Florida Episcopal Bishiop Leo Frade to orthodox Anglicans is simple: It was with great sadness that I concluded I had no other choice but to vote to move to inhibit two of my brothers (Episcopal bishops of Pittsburgh and San Joaquin) who have betrayed …
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When Pentecostals and Anglicans Get Together
It's gratifying to know that this site isn't the only place where Anglicans and Pentecostals find themselves together, as an Orlando-area church that left Episcopal diocese finds a home in a Pentecostal church. The Epiphany Celebration Anglican Church, formerly St. Edward's Episcopal Church, is now worshiping at the Bethel Assembly of God in Mt. Dora, …
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When Liberal Panic is Unwarranted
I'm getting to the point where I find articles like Joe Conason's "Mike Huckabee, the Constitution and Biblical Law" more amusing than a source of anger. His ultimate objective, of course, is to show that Mike Huckabee is a dangerous theonomist who would impose a theocracy if elected President. Such fear is based on the …
Design Flaw for the I-35 Bridge Collapse?
It's not too often that I make an engineering commentary on this site, but the characterisation of the NTSB's conclusion that a design flaw was the "critical factor" in the I-35 bridge failure in Minneapolis, MN, strikes me as a little misleading. (The NTSB's own announcement is here.) In its interim report, the FHWA went …
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The Role of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Democratic Primary
The flap over Hillary Clinton's remarks about the role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement can be seen as a tempest in a teapot, as so many discussions of race in this country are. But her idea that it was Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 speaks …
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Getting Past Uthman’s Edition
No one is going to produce proof that Jesus Christ did not rise from the grave three days after the Crucifixion, of course. Humankind will choose to believe or not that God revealed Himself in this fashion. But Islam stands at risk of a Da Vinci Code effect, for in Islam, God's self-revelation took the …
Hillary Clinton and Las Descamisadas
On a visit to Houston, my client was kind enough to take me to a very nice South American restaurant. One of the items on the menu was the pollo camisado, or literally the shirted chicken (the “shirt” consisted of plantain chips.) I joked that Juan Peron's favourite dish would have been pollo descamisado, or …
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