Rick Warren, the CFR, and Barack Obama
Is Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration purposefully driven? The news media, Evangelicals, the gay community,...
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A Beacon in the Night
It is easy to see why the enchanting paintings of Thomas Kinkade have captivated millions of admirers worldwide. On his canvases, alluring scenes...
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The Gift of Giving
The illustrious Christian writer C.S. Lewis could be unequivocally grumpy about certain contemporary Christmas customs, if we judge from his essays on the...
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Obama Names Duncan Education Secretary
On Tuesday, President-elect Barack Obama nominated the head of the Chicago school system, Arne Duncan, to serve as education secretary for the new...
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Scientists Challenge Global Warming “Crisis”
Politicians and environmental militants worldwide are kicking the global-warming bandwagon into high gear, even as more and more prominent scientists are vocally challenging...
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Ohio Constitutional Convention Resolution Killed by Grassroots Pressure
On December 10 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House held a hearing on House Joint Resolution No. 8 (HJR 8), “Applying to...
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Senate Report Fails to Call Guantanamo Abuse Torture
The bipartisan report on detainee torture at Guantanamo (pdf) released by the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 11 did a good job...
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Run Auto Companies? “We Cannot Even Run the Government,” Ensign Says
Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) wonders how the government could successfully run the Big Three automakers when it cannot even run itself. On December...
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Automaker Bailout Fails in the Senate
H.R. 7321, the auto bailout bill which swept through the House of Representatives on Wednesday, died in the Senate on Thursday evening when...
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The Hope of the World
As I see it, the beginning of the United States of America was the most dramatic and significant episode in a long pilgrimage...
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Bretton Woods
While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal,...
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Faith Triumphs Over Persecution
The simple and enduring faith of Christians has proven unconquerable despite the persecutions from ancient Rome to modern-day Iraq. ...
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Imprisoned for Seven Years Without Being Charged
Consider this incredible sequence of events. A young American citizen was invited to study in a Middle Eastern country. Having arrived there, the...
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Court Won’t Hear Obama Citizenship Case — but May Soon
On Monday, December 8, the Supreme Court unsurprisingly decided not to hear a case by retired lawyer Leo Donofrio claiming that Obama is...
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The War on Christmas
Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them...
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