Posted in General, tagged abortion, mccain, obama, supreme court on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
From Thomas Sowell:
Whoever is elected to the White House this November is expected to appoint two or three new members of the Supreme Court — justices who will be making major decisions affecting the future of American society, long after that president is gone.
Your children will be living during the lifetime tenure of those justices, [...]
Posted in General, tagged oswald chambers, conscience on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
In the past few days, I have had at least four meaningful interactions that have all hit on the same theme: The Liberty of Christ working in our conscience. I did not have a definition for this idea until I opened the famous devotional by Oswald Chambers and read his entry today in My [...]
Posted in Election, General on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
As I introduced here, there is a something unique about the present generational constellation in America, and this creates one of the more intriguing facets of the present election. Bill Strauss & Neil Howe, leading researchers and authorities on the subject of Generations, break down the birth years of these groups as follows:
Silent: 1925-1942
Boom: [...]
Posted in General on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Suzanne Fields recently dissected the short shrift that top-tier academic institutions are now giving to their ostensible missions of higher education:
The New Criterion, a journal trying to plant the “the groves of ignorance” on firmer soil, looks to the book, “The Closing of the American Mind,” by the late Allan Bloom for his cogent critique [...]
Posted in General on January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Victor Davis Hanson on Hillary Clinton & the New Hampshire Primary, available on National Review Online:
The campaign talking heads and opinion makers this season have been lousy, about the worst in memory — especially the “she’s won, she’s lost, she’s won…” feeding frenzy, and then writing the silly “end of the Clinton era” [...]
Posted in General on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
…but only One God who would be Man.
In this season of giving, may we treasure the most amazing gift of grace we have ever received.
Merry Christmas.
Posted in Communication, General, Humility in Practice, Resources, War of Ideas on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Keith Burgess-Jackson of the University of Texas at Arlington concludes a brief clinic on reasoning and argumentation this way in a recent piece on the logic of torture:
Nothing I have said implies that philosophers can’t argue. But notice what that involves. Every argument with an evaluative conclusion must, in order to be valid, [...]
Posted in General on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Contributors « de-conversion
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The Golden Compass — A Briefing for Concerned Christians | Al Mohler
This is not just any fantasy trilogy or film project. Philip Pullman has an agenda — an agenda about as subtle as an army tank. His agenda is nothing less than to expose what [...]
Posted in General on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Hugh Hewitt on Huckabee
Focused on “This Week” discussions around immigration, taxes, education.
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Posted in General on December 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Green Papers: Election Resource
This site is dedicated to the dissemination of information & commentary on the election campaigns, leading to the General Election on Tues 4 November 2008 in which the 56th President, 1/3 of Senate, and the entire House of Representatives will be chosen.
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A Brief History [...]
