Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed the bill just out of the California legislature, a bill authorizing homosexual marriage in that state. He did this in spite of the fact that he actually supports the right of homosexuals to marry. Let’s try to translate it into terms we all understand. In other words, he is “personally …
On Behalf of NSA
I am grateful for this “shameless appeals” category on this blog. It enables me to point to various ministries that are genuinely worthy of support from the broader Christian community, and today’s lesson has to do with New St. Andrews College. But those who don’t want to suffer through a shameless appeal can just press …
Survey Reveals Downtown Moscow Parking Myth
Everyone knows that we have a parking problem downtown. But the problem is that we don’t always get the ideal parking space we wanted, which is not exactly the same thing as not getting a good parking place. As the agitation of a few against New St. Andrews College continues, one of the staple arguments …
Tired Nations of Christendom
It was a week later and the Susquehanna had been tied up in Jamestown for almost the entire time. A crew had spent the first several days repairing damage to the ship, which was slight. The prize merchant had made it safely back to port before them, and Capt. Monroe was now the toast of …
A Steep Staircase
The staircase down to Hell is steep enough as it is, but many insist on going even faster, lunging and clattering down as rapidly as they can. They industriously work at damning themselves, and what they receive at the end of their efforts is simply and solely a wage. They arrive at their destination by …
Love and Loyalty
When you are in a conflict with a group of people over the course of several years, at some point you come to realize what kind of thing sets them off. Of course, as we have been dealing with the intoleristas in Moscow, it would be an excusable mistake for someone to argue that anything …
Gulf Coast Enterprise Zone
As unseemly as it is for officials to be assigning blame (invariably to other officials) before the rescues are even complete, it is happening anyway. We will have plenty of time to sort it all out, but the charges are flying early. The observer should keep in mind that in this debacle there are probably …
Thoughts on New Orleans
The events of the last week on the Gulf Coast have been a gradually unfolding, slow motion disaster. Every day appears to be worse, along with each new day causing the realization to sink in deeper — this is the kind of natural disaster that has not occurred in our nation within living memory. But …
Going South and North At the Same Time
In his wonderful book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton points out the tendency non-believers have to throw any available rock at the Christian faith, never mind that the rocks might not all be consistent with each other. He points out that infidels, for example, say that Christianity disparages women and children, but then they turn around to …
Prejudice Is A Two-Way Street
I submitted the piece below to the Daily News as a response to a Town Crier column that ran last night. In his Town Crier piece last Wednesday, Clifton Anderson granted that “in America, Wilson has the right to his own opinions, of course.” And precisely because this is an op-ed page in America, I …