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2011-05-12T05:00:49-04:00

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Emergency cell phone messages from the president

Last updated on: May 12, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Does anyone see anything wrong with this? A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system would also warn about terrorist attacks and... Read more

2011-05-11T06:00:40-04:00

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Libertarianism vs. Conservatism

Last updated on: May 11, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I know some of you are libertarians and some of you are Ron Paul fans. What do you think of Paul’s proposal at the Republican presidential candidate debate to legalize prostitution and drugs? What do you think of Michael Gerson’s smackdown of Paul and his proposals? Paul was the only candidate at the debate to make news, calling for the repeal of laws against prostitution, cocaine and heroin. The freedom to use drugs, he argued, is equivalent to the freedom... Read more

2011-05-11T05:30:26-04:00

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Sin tax for obesity

Last updated on: May 11, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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More creative taxation ideas, combined with the impulse for the government to make us better: An Illinois lawmaker says parents who have obese children should lose their state tax deduction. “It’s the parents’ responsibility that have obese kids,” said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga. “Take the tax deduction away for parents that have obese kids.” Cultra has not introduced legislation to deny parents the $2,000 standard tax deduction, but he floated the idea Tuesday, when lawmakers took a shot at... Read more

2011-05-11T05:00:02-04:00

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Your thoughts for the penny

Last updated on: May 11, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Ezra Klein highlights some proposals going around Washington that are not controversial and that everyone of any political party should be able to get behind. Not me, when it comes to abolishing the penny! In 2007, economist Austan Goolsbee wrote an op-ed article in which he asked, “How dumb do you have to be to mint money at a loss?” Goolsbee is now President Obama’s chief economic adviser, so it would be unwise for him to answer his own question.... Read more

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2011-05-10T06:00:25-04:00

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America’s exceptional arrogance in the bin Laden killing?

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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While we Americans tend to embrace our “exceptionalism,” people from other countries often see that as a bad thing. Britain’s prominent Christian author N. T. Wright excoriates America for our presumption in the bin Laden assassination: Popular author and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has accused the world of giving America a free pass for violating Pakistan’s sovereignty and killing an unarmed man during the recent attack that killed Osama bin Laden. The former bishop of Durham sent a short statement... Read more

2011-05-10T05:30:07-04:00

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Navy chaplains & gay marriages

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Chaplains in the navy have been told that they may perform gay marriages in navy chapels, if they are legal in the particular state and if the chaplain is willing to do so: Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies — if... Read more

2011-05-10T05:00:38-04:00

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The mighty Mississippi

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The street in Memphis where the blues were born is underwater, as are many of the towns and cities and farms along the Mississippi river: Waging war against flooding of historic proportions that has already affected thousands of people in eight Midwestern and Southern states, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a spillway Monday north of New Orleans in an effort to calm the rising Mississippi River. A crowd gathered near the entrance to the Bonnet Carre spillway to... Read more

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2011-05-09T06:00:20-04:00

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This blog’s new title heading

Last updated on: May 9, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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In the midst of all of the talk about Redeemed Rambling’s critique of the appearance of this blog, the consensus that this blog has a good design really, the addition of Cranach’s seal with its many variations, the minor suggestions that people put forward, and the tweaks that Stewart implemented, commenter Tom Hering–who knows a thing or two about design–was kind enough to design some other possible headings for the title of this blog. I really liked the one with... Read more

2011-05-09T05:31:53-04:00

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Closing a campus ministry because it works?

Last updated on: May 9, 2011 at 5:31 am By Gene Veith

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University Lutheran Chapel in Minneapolis is the LCMS campus ministry to the University of Minnesota. It has ministered effectively to generations of college students, quite a few of whom have gone on to seminary and the pastoral ministry due to its influence. My oldest daughter went to the University of Minnesota, and though exposed to some of the worst excesses of left wing postmodernist academia, she graduated battle tested and more firmly grounded in her Christian faith than ever, thanks... Read more

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2011-05-09T05:00:59-04:00

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New horizons in taxation

Last updated on: May 9, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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How do you think this would go over? The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is a part of the administration’s Transportation Opportunities Act, an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly. The White House, however, said the bill is only an early draft that was not formally circulated within the... Read more

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