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October 2009

October 28, 2009

Why America Is So Great

In taking a look at my trackbacks, I came across the blog of Cameron Buettel,...

October 27, 2009

Sweden skis down the slippery slope to gay marriage

Setting up legalized domestic partnerships for homosexual couples is a better option to gay marriage,...

October 14, 2009

More troops at war now than under Bush

There are now more U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than there ever were during...

October 13, 2009

National sovereignty vs. international law

Thanks to our constitutional guarantees, Americans have much more freedom of speech than other countries...

October 12, 2009

Just give Obama all the prizes

Yes, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But why didn't he win the...

October 09, 2009

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm stunned. I'm flummoxed. I'm gobsmacked....

October 09, 2009

Anniversary of the prayer meeting that brought down the Wall

Twenty years ago today in Leipzig, where Bach used to live, a prayer meeting at...

October 02, 2009

The Olympics are on the road to Rio

Rio de Janeiro wins 2016 Olympic Games. Madrid came in second. Tokyo came in third....

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Potential Olympic cities

President Obama is stumping for his hometown of Chicago in its bid for the 2016...

September 25, 2009

President disses British prime minister

At the big conclave of world leaders in New York City and Pittsburg, President Obama...

September 21, 2009

TV ads for abortionists?

That was the proposal in England, but British pro-lifers flooded the television agency with protests,...

September 18, 2009

President caves to the Russians

President Obama cancelled the planned missile shield that we had promised Poland and Czechoslovakia, capitulating...

September 02, 2009

Conservatives as the new peaceniks?

The conservative pundit George Will is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan:...

August 2009

August 27, 2009

Mexico decriminalizes drugs

Mexico, in the midst of its war with drug dealers, has decriminalized the possession of...

August 26, 2009

Spanish doctors will go to jail rather than be “fetal executioners”

Spain has no conscience clause that would exempt physicians who do not believe in abortion...

August 20, 2009

The British health care system

Both advocates and critics of a government-run "single payer" system look to the example of...

August 12, 2009

Mass trials in Iran

Iran is putting the election protesters on trial 100 at a time. The government admits...

August 10, 2009

Internet scammers are people too

You know those e-mail scams you get from Nigeria? Well, it turns out that the...

August 05, 2009

Clarifying the Prime Minister’s communion practice

From A Canadian Newspaper Apologizes for Inventing a Scandal - NYTimes.com: In a lengthy correction,...

August 03, 2009

Luther tourism

The travel section of yesterday's Washington Post featured a big, three-page lead article on "Luther...

August 03, 2009

Russia as a Christian nation

Vladimir Putin is allying himself with the Russian Orthodox church. From Putin Enlists the Church...

July 2009

July 30, 2009

Which would secularists rather have, Christianity or Islam?

Peter Hitchens is a Christian, but his brother Christopher is a militant atheist, author of...

July 24, 2009

World Christianity

Matthew Kratz at Sola Fide posts some factoids from Mark Noll's new book, The New...

July 24, 2009

The Russian solution to religion in schools

How Russia is trying to rebuild a moral and religious infrastructure while honoring the principle...

July 10, 2009

Universal Empire

Joseph Bottum is editor of First Things, a conservative, a Catholic, and a very perceptive...

June 2009

June 30, 2009

Other dictatorships are censoring news from Iran

China, Cuba, Burma, and other authoritarian regimes are censoring news of the Iranian uprisings, lest...

June 30, 2009

Was it a coup, or the rule of law?

The leftist president of Honduras was overthrown in what has been called a military coup...

June 29, 2009

Iran uprisings mark the end of jihadism?

Joshua Muravchik believes that the uprisings in Iran will mark the beginning of the end...

June 19, 2009

Wittenberg project in the news

I'm on the board of Concordia Publishing House, and we have invested some money in...

June 08, 2009

Europe chooses conservatives

As America embraces European-style social democracy--that is, semi-socialism--Europeans are embracing conservative politics and economic policies....