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2010-09-09T06:00:29-04:00

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Like cats and dogs

Last updated on: September 9, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Columnist Dana Milibank riffs on an analogy: President Obama complained this week that his opponents “talk about me like a dog.” No! Bad Republicans! Drop it! Now sit, stay — and listen: The president is not a dog, and it is insulting to talk about him as such. The president is a cat. Dogs travel in packs and are easily led. They communicate by snarling, growling and snapping. They tend to bark and howl all at once. They are disciplined... Read more

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2010-09-09T05:30:35-04:00

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The unemployment conundrum

Last updated on: September 9, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Steven Pearlman offers a sobering analysis of why just tinkering with government spending–whether increasing it or decreasing it–will not bring the uneployment rate down significantly: The reason there were 8 million additional jobs back in 2007 is that demand for goods and services was artificially – and unsustainably – inflated by cheap, plentiful credit. Between 2002 and 2007, household debt was increasing at the torrid pace of more than 10 percent annually, while business debt and the debt of state... Read more

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protectionism

unemployment

2010-09-09T05:00:51-04:00

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Teenager repellant

Last updated on: September 9, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A Washington, D. C., business district that has been having problems with teenagers getting into fights has installed a technological solution: Gallery Place business owners met with District officials a few weeks ago to voice their concern that loitering teenagers who sometimes get into fights in one of the city’s busiest retail and entertainment strips were costing them customers. The result of that session premiered this week: a device that emits a high-pitched, headache-inducing sound that only young ears can... Read more

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The Mosquito

2010-09-08T06:00:47-04:00

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A Jewish Nazi?

Last updated on: September 8, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Canadian journalist Ezra Levant gives some background on a major player in American politics: George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew. George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came. When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to... Read more

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George Soros

2010-09-08T05:28:37-04:00

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Educational reform

Last updated on: September 8, 2010 at 5:28 am By Gene Veith

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Robert J. Samuelson notes that decades of educational reform policies have yielded nothing that works: Standard theories don’t explain this meager progress. Too few teachers? Not really. From 1970 to 2008, the student population increased 8 percent and the number of teachers rose 61 percent. The student-teacher ratio has fallen sharply, from 27-to-1 in 1955 to 15-to-1 in 2007. Are teachers paid too little? Perhaps, but that’s not obvious. In 2008, the average teacher earned $53,230; two full-time teachers married... Read more

Education

educational reform

2010-09-08T05:00:26-04:00

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Book burning

Last updated on: September 8, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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More reckless fanaticism, this time from a tiny congregation that plans on publicly burning a Koran: Gen. David Petraeus, head of Multinational Forces in Afghanistan, repeated his warning Tuesday that any plans to burn the Muslim holy book — considered a major offense in the Islamic community — would jeopardize U.S. military efforts. But Terry Jones, pastor of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., says not even protests and death threats will deter him. He told MyFoxOrlando.com... Read more

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Koran burning

2010-09-07T06:00:28-04:00

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Teenagers as fake Christians, almost Christians, and passionate Christians

Last updated on: September 7, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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CNN, of all places, has a helpful followup to our discussions of youth ministry, drawing on some recent books to describe the whole range of teenager belief. If you are a parent of teenagers or a pastor, you will want to read the whole article: via Author: More teens becoming ‘fake’ Christians – CNN.com. A sample: If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and... Read more

Church

teenagers and religion

youth ministry

2010-09-07T05:39:36-04:00

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California to vote on legalizing marijuana

Last updated on: September 7, 2010 at 5:39 am By Gene Veith

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The November election will be interesting for all kinds of reasons. Among them is that Californians will vote on legalizing marijuana. Not just medical marijuana, legalizing the personal possession and growth of the weed. It also gives cities and counties the local option of taxing and regulating the sales, which would, I gather, permit commercial sales. And right now, the polls look like the proposal will pass, though it will probably be a close vote. See California Marijuana Initiative Lead Narrows,... Read more

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California Proposition 19

marijuana

2010-09-07T05:00:20-04:00

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One God or billions of universes?

Last updated on: September 7, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Physicist Stephen Hawkings says that there is no need of a deity to have created the universe. Instead, according to this review of his new book, he posits the existence of billions of universes, at least one of which (ours) happens to have the physical laws that would allow for life. With that background [a survey of the history of physics], Hawking and Mlodinow get to the real meat of their book: the way theories about quantum mechanics and relativity... Read more

2010-09-06T06:00:31-04:00

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What’s new?

Last updated on: September 6, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Did you get anything out of the vocation essay (below) that you never thought of before? Read more

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