Over the last few years, I have come to the conclusion that God is probably at work in our world much more than we modern sophisticates realize. The ancients had no problem declaring that an event which effected groups of people and nations – natural or man made – was God’s hand at work. Today we may acknowledge God at work in individual lives, but … Continue reading Hmmmmm . . .
Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel tonight examined the myth of a gigantic slingshot used to fling people through the air and across the border. There’s one way to cross! Of course they’re too nice/smart to get too embroiled, so the imaginary border they created to test their gigantic slingshot was the US Canadian border. But not too nice, and definately smart enough to put the … Continue reading In honor of the protests over illegal immigration . . .
A few minutes ago, I sat down to read an article on slate.com criticizing some column David Brooks wrote about the Duke lacrosse team scandal (don’t really care about it, but the headline writers at slate are so good, they make you want to see what an article’s about). Apparently David Brooks had been complaining about the race/class lens being used to look at the … Continue reading My brain is going to explode
We’ve heard a lot lately about boy’s lack of success in our education system. However, in today’s Washington Post, writers Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett say, “hey, don’t worry – the boys are fine.” According to them, we shouldn’t worry because the only boys who aren’t doing well are the poor, minority, rural and urban boys. The boys who really matter, you know, white … Continue reading I wonder if spinning so hard makes them dizzy
In the past, I have posted about a column proposing that colleges no longer receive funding directly through the government, but that money be given directly to students to purchase educations and about the state of Colorado’s attempts to do just that. While I’m sure there are still many, many hurdles left, it appears that this may be an idea which has a chance of … Continue reading Funding Higher Ed
A writer named Mark Steyn has a column up on the Orange County Register about the case of a man being threatened with execution in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity. The whole thing is good, but I particularly appreciated this bit: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of “suttee” – the tradition of burning widows on … Continue reading We need clear thinkers like this today
Perhaps you have seen this story about an Afghani man who is facing death in Afghan government courts for converting to Christianity. I’m sorry, but I really think this is the point where we need to tell the Afghani government that either they need to join the modern world and learn to play nicely with others or we’re taking our cash and soldiers and going … Continue reading Afghan Man Facing Death for Converting to Christianity
There’s an article up on The Weekly Standard called “Indentured Families” which I found very interesting. It outlines several prime examples of how the GOP, while being miles above the Democratic Party on many things, is hardly the champion of the family it is too often allowed to portray itself as. It gives examples of 3 specific policies which hurt families but because of specific … Continue reading More on Public policy and Families
On of the topics I have brushed on here is how the government can/should change policies in order to encourage family formation and make it easier to maintain families. Unfortunately, whenever government and policies appear in the same sentence, people may assume I’m referring t new big-government programs. This is not the case at all. In The National Review Online today, one of the authors … Continue reading Government Policies and Marriage
I alluded in a very long post a couple of weeks ago to my distaste for student loans – they are perfectly horrid things and I would rather see my children work their way up from being potato peelers in the Salvation Army kitchen than take on any. Any one who thinks that I’m being ridiculous needs to read this. We really are failing our … Continue reading Student Loans Are Evil!
The Upside Down World 