Posted in Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged Christianity, citizen-driven government, government, Islam, Terrorism on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Where is your place in the current war of ideas with radical Islam?
Posted in Election, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged new media, obama, Technology, Terrorism on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In this post on new media and the election, I observed that young people’s adeptness with the tools of viral influence will be a driver in an increasingly citizen-driven government. This could be decisive in the coming election (though young people are notorious for being a letdown due to low turnout on election day).
The [...]
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Technology, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged Terrorism, al qaeda, google, lieberman, government on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Updated 6/4/08: Inquiring minds want to know more (see PS at bottom)
On May 19, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from its YouTube subsidiary. Google did not remove all the terrorist-sponsored videos in question.
Today, Bloomberg reported that “Google Diplomats Bend Free [...]
Posted in Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
For anyone still gathering data on whether our Iraq invasion was the right move or not–or if anyone is tracking our conversation on Iraq at A Deo Lumen following posts here and here–you should include these observations by Michael Barone, quoted in part below from his analysis of Douglas Feith’s War and Decision.
Today we’re only [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One example of the liberty of Christ working in our conscience is the liberty of friends to wrestle through an issue or question together. This can and must be done in humility, or else God must oppose us (1 Peter 5:5). In other words, liberty requires humility.
For example, my friend AY at Every Square Inch [...]
Posted in Communication, Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged bush, Communication, gwot, iraq, victor davis hanson on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Though the cool light history will have to decide whether George W. Bush’s presidency was a broad success or not, I believe he deserves the highest marks for something very specific: not allowing another 9/11 on his watch.
I was living a few miles away from the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. My wife (of [...]
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged iran, iraq, oil, petraeus, victor davis hanson on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of my favorite voices whom I have discovered online in the past few years, is Victor Davis Hanson (VDH). He is military historian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal. His blog is Works and Days, and he frequently writes at National Review [...]
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged al qaeda, iran, iraq, odierno, petraeus, Terrorism on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Wondering why there has not been much news on Iraq lately? While General David Petraues’ new position over the Middle East is probably not seen as big news here, I bet our Islamic terrorist enemies in the region are paying attention.
Below is a summary of Petraeus’ new duties, from an article with great analysis [...]
Posted in Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Been traveling, studying, working, and otherwise occupied with little free time to write lately. Certainly that is more stunting for me than you.
But in the meantime I have had some outstanding conversations with new and old friends, about new and old topics. I have learned from my friends at Barry University that the [...]
Posted in Election, Terrorism, War of Ideas on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Presidential elections are a critical time for critical distance. Critical Distance, as Christian author Nancy Pearcey describes, is that ability to step back from any information presented to you and objectively consider its underlying assumptions and implications for real life. When we bring God’s Word into the mix, we call this Biblical discernment.
However [...]
