BP’s latest failure to plug the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is one more crushing disappointment to Louisiana’s beleaguered people, one more strike against the company and one more signal to President Obama to redouble efforts to contain and clean the spill.
This Memorial Day, honoring a military that’s in isolation
Note: I found this piece by E.J. Dionne to be quite disturbing. He argues that wars bring about racial reconciliation and financial prosperity. He has probably never heard of the “broken window” fallacy. He argues further for the advancement of women in the military, which is in my opinion a despicable practice.
Piper, Sailhamer, and Creationism
Rather than seeking to interpret the Bible in light of contemporary scientific claims of the age of the earth, we should uphold what the Word of God teaches by challenging the faulty presuppositions of today’s mainstream scientists. Then we will be faithful to what God has revealed and expose the “nakedness” of the emperor of contemporary science.
The answer is that Israeli society has long ago been poisoned by the bacillus of fascism, and – sheltered under the umbrella of US military and financial support – the bacterium has flourished in the perfect Petri dish of generous American aid. Now the creature has broken out of the laboratory, and is roaming the world in search of victims – and finding them in a couple of boat loads of lefty journalists and international do-gooder types. What we ought to be asking ourselves, somewhat nervously, is: who’s next?
A Great and Growing Inferiority Complex of Calvinists
Culture! How badly we do want it! We are not happy about our Christianity and we are not happy about our Calvinism unlessit is “cultured.”
Two Kingdoms and Cultural Obedience
