Health Care
The political definition of joy gets weirder
Given this understanding, Gov. Roy Cooper's remarks at his press briefing April 6 were all the more bizarre.
New Testament
second division of the Christian biblical canon
Health Care
And he called it … a ‘speak-o’
Jonathan “The Architect” Gruber has an explanation for, um, bizarrely and totally accidentally validating the entire premise of Halbig back in 2012 before those awful libertarians happened upon it. I…
Regulation
Taking the Rube Goldberg approach to regulation
Allan Sloan writes in the latest Fortune magazine that the transformation of former Fed chairman Paul Volcker’s proposed financial reform into a government “rule” represents “a triumph of complexity over…
Liberty
‘We thought he was going to be the next messiah’
On Piers Morgan’s show last night, the uncommonly gullible Barbara Walters gave what is, by now, a most superfluous admission: He [Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he…
Education
First Pope Center Spirit of Inquiry winner pens Newsweek cover story
As Christmas approaches, the latest Newsweek asks in its cover story, “Who was Jesus?” UNC-Chapel Hill religious studies professor Bart Ehrman attempts to answer the question. As Christians around the…
Liberty
Holy crap
It’s election season and DNC week; it is definitely time for some more hysterically overblown Obama deification. Arise, ye Ozymandian structures! Peddle, ye swappers of swag! I don’t know; it…
Liberty
I’m suddenly drawn to Matthew 15:14 …
… after reading this story.
Liberty
That false generalization surfaces again
Regular readers of this forum might remember a brief note recently about the media’s interest in a false storyline involving Republican presidential nominations. This week’s TIME magazine cover story picks…
Liberty
ACLU wins, high-profile murderer loses in Appeals Court
This morning, the N.C. Court of Appeals has delivered a victory to the American Civil Liberties Union in its lawsuit challenging limits on the Holy Scriptures used for North Carolina…
Liberty
Sen. Kerry
I wondered, as I pondered Joe’s Kerry note, if Kerry’s speed reading exercise of the New Testament led to a bit of a slow down when he passed through Mark?…
Liberty
Parable of the Speedreader
James Taranto shares this quote from John Kerry: I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I…
Liberty
China, candy canes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
A major Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is going to be in High Point for the next few weeks. Could be worth a day-trip. Meanwhile, reports the High Point Enterprise, a…