Me, too!
There was a period in my life when I swore off the evening news. Those were days of peace and contentment. But not watching the news doesn’t make the world go away, and the more I watch the news, read the periodicals, and reflect on the goings-on of our nation and world, the more at […]
The Creative Imagination of Sin
Administration officials seem to be at odds over the state of the current recession. One says it’s over, another laughingly disagrees. Perhaps more stimulus would do the trick? Would just a little more federal money at last begin to create more jobs and bring this recession officially to an end? A report on Fox News […]
More Evil
Americans, it seems, have lost the ability to be motivated in their actions by anything other than the love of money. Everything Congress or the President proposes is couched in terms of economics. Citizens of Thomson, Illinois, support the transfer of Gitmo detainees to their community because doing so will create 3,000 jobs and bring […]
The Politics of Outrage
A Rasmussen poll indicates that while 35% of Americans favor the Democratic Party, and 28% the Republicans, 41% of Americans identify with the Tea Party Movement. Is this a good thing? What do the Tea Party folks want? We know what they’re against, and we know they’re very, very upset, even outraged. But outrage does […]
The Gamble
Senate Democrats are now poised to pass major health care legislation – not reform legislation, just legislation. The votes are now in place, and, because the Senate version is such a squeak-through, it will probably trump the House version and be the final bill, or close to it. The Democrats are taking a major gamble […]
“The Art of Compromise”
The immorality of the pending health care legislation is slowly coming to light. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada today extolled the Democrats’ victory and explained all the horse-trading and deal-making as “the art of compromise.” He said that any Senator who didn’t practice this was not a very good Senator. I assume that by “good” […]
The Long View
America’s political leaders are making decisions today that will affect the nation’s future for the next generation. Increased government involvement in the economy, policy decisions affecting the environment, the growing sense that our war with Islamic terror will continue indefinitely, and dramatic overhauls in education assessment are just some of the ways that the nation’s […]
The Esteem of the Church
Esteem of the Church in the secular world has slipped to an all-time low. That, at least, is the impression one gets reading William H. McNeill’s contribution to a special issue of The Hedgehog Review devoted to the emerging cosmoplitanism. In the face of a worldwide movement to create a “global community” McNeill is concerned […]
A Watershed Year
2010 promises to be a wathershed year for America. By this time next year we will have a much better picture of the kind of nation America will be. We are presently on a course of
Let the Sun Shine
The Obama Administration has rejected a call from C-Span to follow through with an oft-repeated campaign promise, namely, to allow C-Span to televise hearings and deliberations relative to health care reform legislation. Mr. Obama didn’t just make this promise once. Insisting that his would be the most transparent administration in American history, the President repeatedly […]
Conservative Shift?
A recent poll indicates that, at present, those identifying themselves as conservatives outnumber liberals by more than 10 percentage points. That’s not so surprising. What is surprising is that, for the first time in many years, conservatives outnumber moderates by 4 percentage points. I can’t get too excited about this, though, and not because I’m […]
Reid My Lips
The Lord Jesus reminds us that “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12.34). So what’s Harry Reid’s heart full of, now that we know what he privately said about President Obama back in 2008? I doubt that Harry Reid is a racist. Senator Reid is a politician, and he has […]
The Haiti Question
So many questions swirl up from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake that it almost seems presumptuous to pick one as somehow of most significance. How can a country become and remain so impoverished? What kind of leaders allow this to happen, while they aggrandandize themselves on the back of their neighors’ squalor? Why is […]
Referendum?
The Massachusetts special senatorial election on Tuesday is being touted as a referendum on the Obama Administration and its centralist agenda. Perhaps it is. Conservatives in Congress and the media insist that, no matter the outcome, the people of the Commonwealth are voicing their outrage and that they represent a microcosm of the American electorate. […]
Follow the Logic
The outpouring of help to the people of Haiti has grown from a trickle to a stream to a flood. Relief is pouring in from all over the world in what is becoming the worst single-nation disaster in human history. Everything from food and water to medical assistance, clothing, rescue teams, temporary housing, and more […]
