How do you take down poverty? One toy block at a time.
The value of social entrepreneurship… Continue reading How do you take down poverty? One toy block at a time.
Category: Politics & Culture
Yom HaShoah: Never Again!
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has chosen the theme, “Never Again: Heeding the Warning Signs,” to commemorate the day. For more information, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, check out the museum’s webpage. Continue reading Yom HaShoah: Never Again!
Margaret Thatcher, RIP
“It is ironic that just when those countries such as the Soviet Union, which have tried to run everything from the centre, are learning that success depends on dispersing power and decisions away from the centre, there are some in the community who seem to want to move in the opposite direction. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” – in the “Bruges speech”, 1988 Continue reading Margaret Thatcher, RIP
Our First Right: Religious Liberty | Public Discourse
From Our First Right: Religious Liberty | Public Discourse: At the heart of the American model of public life is an essentially religious vision of man, government, and God. This model has given us a free, open, and non-sectarian society marked by an astonishing variety of cultural and religious expressions. But our system’s success does not result from the procedural mechanisms our Founders put in place. Our system works precisely because of the moral assumptions that undergird it. And those moral assumptions have a religious grounding. Continue reading Our First Right: Religious Liberty | Public Discourse
Review of ‘Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians’ by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Nina Shea
Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Nina Shea, Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013). $16.99, 368 pages. Saeed Abedini is a Christian minister currently imprisoned for his faith in Iran. A native of that country, Abedini converted from Islam to Christianity in 2000 and became a leader in Iran’s house-church movement. In 2005, he moved to America with his wife, Naghmeh, and became a naturalized citizen here as well. In the summer of 2012, he returned to Iran to visit his family and to build an orphanage in the city of Rasht. He was arrested and indicted … Continue reading Review of ‘Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians’ by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Nina Shea
Confusing Question of the Day: Obama Pardons The Sequester
I tremble for my country when I consider how ignorant my fellow countrymen are… Continue reading Confusing Question of the Day: Obama Pardons The Sequester
Mo Sabri: ‘I Believe in Jesus’
Mo Sabri is a Muslim who believes in Jesus. No, he’s not part of the insider movement. He’s a Muslim…who believes in Jesus. It may surprise Pentecostal and evangelical Christians to learn that Muslims believe that Jesus, among other things, was born of a virgin, was commissioned to preach, ascended into heaven, and will return again to Jerusalem. Alongside these orthodox beliefs, which are reflected in Mo Sabri’s song, Muslims deny that Jesus was God incarnate and the atonement for our sins. So, from the standpoint of Christian theology (and of historical truth), the Muslim view of Jesus is deficient. … Continue reading Mo Sabri: ‘I Believe in Jesus’
Debt Limit: A Guide to American Federal Debt Made Easy
This video is 14 months old, but it’s still a great illustration of the insanity of the federal budget. Continue reading Debt Limit: A Guide to American Federal Debt Made Easy
Organizing for Acce$$
If you donate $500,000 to Organizing for America (which used to be President Obama’s re-election campaign), you get quarterly meetings with the president. Senator Obama used to denounce this kind of thing, saying, “They get the access, you get to write a letter.” Oh well, times change… Continue reading Organizing for Acce$$
The Sequester: Small Crumbs from a Very Large Pie
Here’s Michael Ramirez’s take on the Sequester kerfluffle: Continue reading The Sequester: Small Crumbs from a Very Large Pie
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