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Friday, May 26, 2017
Pros and Cons of Trump’s Budget and Cons of Dem Demagoguery
Demagoguery and propaganda are enemies of good governance, but nowhere is that more apparent than in the federal budget, on which Democrats are shameless and too many Republicans are feckless.
Trump Acts Like a Competent, Conventional President Abroad
What a difference a week makes. On May 19, President Donald Trump took off in Air Force One for the Middle East and Europe. He left behind a Washington and a nation buzzing about his firing of FBI Director James Comey, the multiple reasons he had given for doing so, the meeting he’d had with the Russian foreign minister a day later and his statement that Comey is a “nut job.”
Why Middle East Peace Starts in Saudi Arabia
The quixotic American pursuit of Middle East peace is a perennial. It invariably fails, yet every administration feels compelled to give it a try. The Trump administration is no different.
Secular Ecclesiology
Ecclesiology is the study of the church. That includes the forms of church government, its leadership, how it worships, its relationship to the people of God and even its sacraments. In modern American evangelicalism, ecclesiology is needed more than ever.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Boy’s Graduation Speech Pulled Over Christian Content
The small town of Akin, Illinois, is the heartbeat of the heartland. It’s a place where the crops are bountiful and so are the patriots. They don’t even have a post office in Akin — but it does have a church. And around this part of the country, church is what folks do. So you can understand the concern among townsfolk when the salutatorian at Akin Grade School was told he could not deliver his graduation speech because it was too religious.
Taming the Budget Tiger
We’re used to hearing politicians vow to cut spending. We’re also used to them not following through.
North Carolina Strikes Out a Fifth Time at the Supreme Court Over Redistricting
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the latest redistricting plan from North Carolina on Monday, holding that the state Legislature had impermissibly used race in the redistricting process for two congressional districts.
Rome Burns — Nero Worries About Pyrophobia
The latest Muslim terrorist attack ripped apart little girls at a concert in Manchester, England, on Monday, killing 22. The death and body-part count is still rising.
Loving Across the Color Line
More than half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. exhorted Americans to judge each other by the content of their character, obsessive racialists continue to insist that people must be judged by the color of their skin.
Remembering the Rohna: A World War II Secret and Tragedy
Any veteran of World War II can tell you stories. But for Frank E. Bryer, his story — one he could never forget — was a terrible one. It began the moment his ship, called the Rohna, was sunk. When that ship went down on November 26, 1943, Frank’s life changed forever. And very few people beyond the men tossed into the sea ever knew what happened.
Tour de Francis
It took four days, but President Trump completed a religious trifecta — traveling deep into the heartlands of Islam, Judaism, and Catholicism this week. His first foreign trip has been an eventful one, capped off yesterday by his visit to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in tow. Away from the flashbulbs and cameras, the two men excused themselves from the press and met privately for a half-hour.
Great Moments in Fake News ‘Journalism’
What about President Donald Trump’s complaint about “fake news”? Let’s look at some examples of “Great Moments in ‘Journalism’” over the last few years.
Roger Ailes’ Exit Stage Right
A major threat to the predominance of the Kultursmog in these United States passed away last week, but he succeeded in what he set out to do, namely, damaging the Left in America beyond any hope of recovery.
Saudi Arabia’s Duplicity
Trusting Saudi Arabia to combat terrorists and extremists and “drive them out,” as President Trump called on the kingdom and other Arab and Muslim nations to do in his Riyadh speech, is akin to forging an alliance with the Ku Klux Klan to combat racism and anti-Semitism. Saudi Arabia has for years promoted the very evil they now “commit” to fighting through a newly established Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. Never forget that 15 of the 9-11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
A Portentous Election in the Peach State
By the time Georgia’s 6th District votes in the June 20 special congressional election, $40 million — perhaps more than $130 per ballot — will have been spent to pick one-435th of one-half of one of the three branches of one of America’s governments. This is an expensive funeral for Tip O’Neill’s incessantly quoted and increasingly inapplicable axiom that “All politics is local.”
Trump’s Budget to Preserve the Swamp?
President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal is finally out, and it boldly promises to deliver a “new foundation for American greatness.” I guess that grandiose language is supposed to resonate with those voters who don’t understand how the budget process actually works. The sad reality is that this budget would accomplish no such thing, for several reasons:
Update on Manchester
British authorities reassured the public after the Manchester atrocity that life will go on as usual. But, of course, it’s not going on as usual. The terror alert level across the United Kingdom has been raised to “Critical.”
Has Globalism Gone Off the Rails?
The West that birthed globalization is now in an open revolt over its own offspring, from here in Eastern Europe to southern Ohio.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Peace Through Diversity?
Since the Obama administration was determined to change America’s social structure, it mattered little that social engineering is not the purpose of the United States’ armed forces.
Manchester Terror: When Nails Become Neurotoxins, Hundreds Will Be Thousands
Manchester. Paris. London. Berlin. Stockholm. Nice. Brussels. Boston. San Bernardino. Orlando. These are just a few of the many cities in the Western world that have felt the scourge of Islamic terrorism.