Archive for November, 2011
Child Labor: Is Newt Right?
Newt Gingrich is a master of controversy. From throwing a tantrum over his seat at Air Force One, to lobbying for Fannie and Freddie, to doing an ad with Pelosi. He’s done it again: Newt Gingrich has suggested the US should again legalise child labor, and allow children to work in schools as janitors for [...]
Five Items of Interest: Iowa Caucus Edition
I’m back from my short-term blogging hiatus. It’s good to see that my blogging absence hasn’t impacted traffic since David’s picking up my slack. I had a great Thanksgiving, I hope you did as well. I had planned to be back to writing, but it is amazing how little time you have to write when [...]
Time for Herman Cain to Say Adieu
It is time for Herman Cain to exit the race. When Ginger White publicly announced that she had a 13-year affair with Mr. Cain it was additional confirmation for me that I made the right decision not having him in my short list. If the sexual harassment allegations and other gaffes were not enough to [...]
What Have Economists Ever Done For Us?
Economists are not popular nowadays. The failure by most economists to predict the financial crisis (while there still was time to prevent it) have made a lot of people lose their respect for the science of economics. Among the general public, nobody really respect economists anymore. Maybe this is understandable – I’m in no way [...]
Knee-Jerk Reaction: Some Christians Defend Atheist Bible and Attack Sams Club For Removing It From Shelves
Proverbs 18:5-6 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. Sam’s Wholesale Club, a division of Wal-Mart, is doing the Lord’s work by removing a blasphemous book from its shelves, and sadly many reactionary [...]
What Is the Purpose of Life?
At its best, philosophy offers a depressing meaningless for our lives; but, such empty philosophy is wrong. It cannot see the truly fulfilling reality: we have an amazingly grand purpose. As physical creatures, we eat, drink, reproduce, and die. In the midst of that we develop and deteriorate. One pagan philosophy advises us to enjoy [...]
Sufficiency of Scripture: Think These Thoughts, Walk this Way
The doctrine of the Sufficiency of Scripture teaches profound respect for the Word of God. We love the Scriptures so much that we hate, in the sense of Luke 14:26, everything else. Lu 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, [...]
Thanksgiving to God from the depths: The story of Mary Moore
On this Thanksgiving Day I found myself thinking about one of the most remarkable stories I’ve ever read. It’s the captivity of Mary Moore, taken from Foote’s History of Virginia. This story of faith unshaken in the midst of the worst circumstances imaginable will move you. It also reminds us how easy, secure, and comfortable our [...]
Occupy Wall Street: Envy Protests Greed
In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.” A most revealing window into our president’s political [...]
Pro-Life Groups Should Say No to Newt and Pooh-Pooh Perry.
Newt Gingrich and Governor Rick Perry, along with Mitt Romney, have made it clear that they think killing an unborn baby is an acceptable act, if you can show that the father was a rapist, worthy of the death penalty according to the Laws of Moses. Not a single rational or principled reason can be [...]
