It’s not popular to say that Bush’s veto of the recent bill promoting embryonic stell cell research is for the best. But I’ll go on record saying it anyway. Bush said: “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human…
Op-Ed Blog
Liberalism Distilled
It’s humbling to realize that after all of the posts I’ve written in the past few years that I’ve never managed to properly capture the true essence of American liberalism and what is wrong with it. There’s just something elusive about the movement’s illogic that defies description. Just as particle physicists have difficulty tracking the…
Border Security
Charles Krauthammer says that there’s only one thing Americans agree on when it comes to immigration reform: fixing the border. At least that’s one thing that all of our representatives in Washington are saying they support. But do they really? David B. doesn’t think so. Referring to the immigration bill that was recently defeated he…
Obama on Fatherhood
Here’s an example of why it’s great to have Barack Obama in the presidential primaries: “There are a lot of men out there who need to stop acting like boys; who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception; who need to know that what makes you a man is not the ability…
Donna
This isn’t normally the kind of thing that I write about here, but last night I had the privilege of praying over Donna, the sister of a good friend of mine, with a group of friends from our church. Donna was recently diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing massive chemo treatments even now. It’s become…
Religion of Peace
Islam means peace, according to some Muslims who, it seems, have a rather tenuous connection with reality. Today the peacemakers struck in in Tirin Kot, Afghanistan: In the first suicide attack, a bomber rammed his car into a convoy of international troops in Tirin Kot, capital of the central province of Uruzgan, killing five children…
War in the Classrooms
In America the debate is over how to deliver universal education to all American youth, not whether it should be done. There is some argument about what the content of that education should be – evolution vs. intelligent design, for example – but very little disagreement over whether education should be a public right. In…
Polygamy 2007
Reuters says that fundamentalist Mormons are pushing for legalization of their polygamous ways: Polygamy, once hidden in the shadows of Utah and Arizona, is breaking into the open as fundamentalist Mormons push to decriminalize it on religious grounds, while at the same time stamping out abuses such as forced marriages of underage brides. The growing…
Obligations
There are those who believe that the United States is obligated to help poor nations because we are “rich”. And there are those who believe that America’s influence in the world must be reduced so that their own can increase. The interests of these groups intersect in the debate over global warming which, to summarize,…
Immigration Reform? No…
…things are just fine the way they are. Or so Senate Republicans seem to think. What I’d like to know is on earth were they high on? Do they really think that they’re somehow going to be able to get a better bill through Congress after the next election? Please, let’s not be as dense…