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2010-06-03T22:54:59-04:00

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Limited vs. Unlimited government

Last updated on: June 3, 2010 at 10:54 pm By Gene Veith

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George Will reviews a book that seems to go to the heart of the difference between conservatism and progressivism: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, Class of 1771, and Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879. Madison was the most profound thinker among the Founders. Wilson, avatar of “progressivism,” was the first president critical of the nation’s founding. Barack Obama’s Wilsonian agenda reflects... Read more

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Woodrow Wilson

2010-06-03T22:38:36-04:00

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Perfect game, except for one error

Last updated on: June 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm By Gene Veith

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The umpire’s. . . . An umpire’s tears and admission he blew a call failed to move baseball commissioner Bud Selig to award Armando Galarraga the perfect game he pitched. The play and its aftermath quickly became the talk of the sports world and beyond, even to the White House. Selig said Thursday that Major League Baseball will look at expanded replay and umpiring, but didn't specifically address umpire Jim Joyce’s botched call Wednesday night that cost Galarraga the perfect... Read more

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Amando Gallaraga

2010-06-01T12:23:45-04:00

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Update from the road

Last updated on: June 1, 2010 at 12:23 pm By Gene Veith

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Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn. We came here to celebrate my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The day we got to Oklahoma, though, we learned that my wife’s father’s wife–who had been in the hospital for a relatively minor operation–caught an infection and just died! (Shouldn’t the hospital be liable for something like that? The reason I addressed her like I did is that they married late in life, and she really didn’t serve as my... Read more

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2010-06-01T12:11:52-04:00

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Setting public policy according to the Word

Last updated on: June 1, 2010 at 12:11 pm By Gene Veith

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Some politicians want to set public policy according to the teachings of the Word. In doing so, they are trying to set up a theocratic government. Right now, the most powerful of these Christian Taliban is evidently Nancy Pelosi. Here is what the pro-abortion Speaker of the House had to say: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, “The Word made Flesh.” Pelosi, who is a... Read more

2010-05-28T06:00:14-04:00

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Summertime, and the livin’ is busy

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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This is shaping up to be a busy summer for me, with lots of travelling, for business, for pleasure, and for business and pleasure. We set out today for Oklahoma and my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration, to be followed by my last Concordia Publishing House board meeting. So I’ll be on the road for awhile. I still intend to keep blogging, as I can, but I might not be as regular a poster as I have usually been. I... Read more

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2010-05-28T05:45:29-04:00

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Pitch a new TV show

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Lost is over. Law and Order and Numb3rs are cancelled. The networks need to come up with new programming and are searching for the next Lost. So far, program directors seem to be coming up with new ideas like these: Let’s have another police procedural! And to make it new, we’ll have it be just like our other police procedurals, only it’ll take place in a different city! Let’s have a situation comedy about a bumbling husband with a wife... Read more

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2010-05-28T05:40:39-04:00

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Martin Luther’s Body

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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I was browsing through the library, when imagine my surprise when I saw the latest issue of the American Historical Review with a big picture of Luther and Melanchthon on the cover. The lead article is entitled “Martin Luther’s Body,” focusing on how fat he was (contrasting to the skinniness of the medieval saints) and on how his language, thinking, acting, and theology were all so physical. The article is alternatively humorous (as when the author discusses and defends Luther’s... Read more

Lutheranism and the Body

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Martin Luther

2010-05-28T05:33:58-04:00

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King Herod’s face

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 5:33 am By Gene Veith

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Biblical Archaeology Review has published a portrait of one of the king Herods, one of the “tetrarchs,” based on computer enhancement of images on rare coins of the time. This is not the Herod who slaughtered the innocents–that was Herod the Great. Nor was it the Herod who killed John the Baptist and who questioned Jesus–that was Herod Antipas. This was Herod Philip II, who did, however, rule in Galilee when Jesus was there. So Jesus might well have seen... Read more

2010-05-28T05:00:42-04:00

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The count

Last updated on: May 28, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Thomas Boswell, one of the better baseball writers, says that the real key to understanding the subtleties of baseball is paying attention to the number of balls and strikes, to the count: The count [is] baseball’s open secret, the hidden key, the game-within-the-game that players themselves obsessed about. You don’t wait for the action. You anticipate it — through the count. To grasp baseball better, digest one vital but little-known fact that has only been discovered in recent years as... Read more

2010-05-27T08:26:14-04:00

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An impeachable offense?

Last updated on: May 27, 2010 at 8:26 am By Gene Veith

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Did someone in the White House offer Rep. Joe Sestak a job in the administration if he would drop out of the Senate race against Arlen Specter? That’s what Sestak claimed during his successful Democratic primary race against the White-House endorsed Specter. If so, that would be a federal crime. If the president did it, so people are claiming, that would be an impeachable offense. The controversy revolves around an oft-repeated statement by Rep. Sestak, D-Pa., that he had been... Read more

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