I have not entitled this op-ed “What the Election Meant”. That might be a bit grandiose for the day after. But November 6, 2012 definitely taught us some things we must not ignore. First and possibly foremost, stuff happens. In this case it was a hurricane. Sandy kept Mitt Romney off TV for five crucial [...]
The revolution Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson wrought reached its culmination last week, in the (ever-so-quiet) changing of Baptists’ name. We are “Great Commission Baptists” now. If you didn’t get the memo, don’t be surprised. A name-change was not popular with many Baptists, holding tightly to tradition as people are prone to do, and to [...]
Pastor Doug Wilson, a not-insignificant leader in the Reformed community, counsels his followers to sit out Election 2012, because Mitt Romney doesn’t live up to his standards. Well, I can’t think of many of my standards Mitt meets either. But Doug is wrong, and dangerously so. The argument (this year and every other year of [...]
Technological change is accelerating at an accelerating rate. It’s hard for even the greatest technologists to keep up, much less analyze the societal implications of their work. So where are we headed? Here are four of the trends you most need to watch. » Adult stem cells: While all media and political attention seems focused [...]
The Religious Left vs. “Demonic” America By Mark D. Tooley FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2007 Mainline American Protestantism, when its elites were still theologically orthodox, viewed the United States as a providential instrument for prosperity and freedom. But after its elites abandoned traditional Christianity for a plethora of radical ideologies, it discovered that America is [...]
They were America’s forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings. They were the ministers and the tradespeople, the lawyers and the doctors, people from every walk of life who dared to declare, fight for, and win their independence from the mighty [...]
“Is your state next?” – NARAL email after passage of the South Dakota abortion ban They lost the Congress in 1994. They lost the presidency in 2000 and failed to recapture it in 2004. They watched helplessly as President George W. Bush reinstituted Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy defunding international abortion providers; ended federal abortion [...]
“Christmas? Bah, humbug.” – Scrooge, in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Scrooge may have been a fictional character in a 19th-century Dickens novel; but did you ever imagine Scrooge’s ghost could haunt the ACLU, People for the American Way, and America’s other citadels of radical secularism in the way it does this year? Just dare [...]
The Germans call it schadenfreude, the delight some people feel when a disliked person gets his comeuppance. And more than a few Americans experienced just that last month as France convulsed in riots. For decades, France’s elite, combining disdain with glee, castigated America on everything from Vietnam to Iraq, from race relations to inner-city poverty, from [...]
We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving — the professional grumblers among us notwithstanding. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re not only alive, but have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, and a pretty decent roof over your head. Indeed, more Americans own their own roofs than ever before. You [...]
Picture this: It’s the evening rush hour, the buses are packed, and there aren’t enough seats to go around. So who sits and who stands? Well, that’s easy, you say. The rule is “first-come-first-served.” Those who boarded first will snag a seat. Those who came last won’t. Maybe a seated gentleman or two will let [...]
It has been almost exactly seventy years since Leni Riefenstahl directed what is still the singular masterpiece of documentary and propaganda filmmaking, Triumph of the Will. Her film glorified Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party at the beginning of their run, at a time when many the world over were speaking hopefully of the “new German [...]
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