Two New York City police officers were shot and killed by a gunman who ambushed their patrol car outside a Brooklyn housing project on Saturday, in what top city officials called a targeted killing. “They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference at Woodhull Medical Center on Saturday evening. The…
Read Now
This week, the City of Plano, Texas—the ninth largest city in one of America’s largest states—voted to adopt an unlawful and unconstitutional ordinance that violates the religious liberty rights of ordinary citizens. Of the revised policy of an ordinance the City first passed in 1989—and which the City renamed as “Equal Rights Policy”— the City Council Agenda Item says: “The…
Read Now
We live in a “culture of dependence.” That was a phrase coined by Michael Barone who used it on my radio program. One example he used to illustrate the “culture of dependence” was an exchange between a CNN reporter and a man at a tea party event in Chicago. The CNN reporter asked him, “Do you realize that you’re eligible…
Read Now
Author Interview Q & A, Part 1 with Bob Kellemen BCC Staff Note: In this Biblical Counseling Coalition author interview Q & A, we connect with Bob Kellemen, our Executive Director. Bob is the General Editor for the new Biblical Counseling Coalition book, Scripture and Counseling: God’s Word for Life in a Broken World. As Bob notes in the interview,…
Read Now
Abortion is devastating the black population in America. In an article by Star Parker and Gary Bauer in a past edition of the The Weekly Standard, they lay out statistics showing how abortion is affecting African-Americans more than any other identifiable group or population. They point out that President Obama’s “ascendance to the White House has been almost uniformly regarded…
Read Now
PHILADELPHIA — One morning in February 2012, Prof. David Skeel received an email from a stranger named Patrick Arsenault. The message contained a thumbnail photo of the equation for calculating kinetic energy, and the signature line identified the writer as a postdoctoral fellow at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. All of which gave Professor Skeel cause for…
Read Now
The future of private practice for physicians does not look bright. A recent Physicians Foundation survey of 20,000 U.S. doctors found that about a third (35%) described themselves as independent. That is down from two-thirds (62%) in 2008. In less than a decade independent doctors have gone from being the rule to the exception. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise…
Read Now
What will be the financial impact of President Obama’s executive order concerning nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants? The White House has acknowledged that these newly legalized workers will contribute to Social Security and Medicare. Will this help us with our current crisis of entitlements or make the problem worse? There are some that believe it will help us since we…
Read Now
“CHRISTMAS is at our throats again.” That was the cheery yuletide greeting favored by the late English playwright Noël Coward, commemorating the holiday after which he was named. Less contrarian were the words of President Calvin Coolidge: “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in…
Read Now
When the head of the CIA’s torture unit decided to destroy videotapes of his team’s horrific work, he unwittingly set in motion a series of events that led to the release this week of the most massive, detailed documentation of unlawful behavior by high-ranking government officials and intentional infliction of pain on noncombatants by the United States government since the…
Read Now
For 36 years, Jim Garlow didn’t know his first adopted child was the result of a rape. But after his wife Carol lost a six-year battle with cancer last year, their daughter, Janie, went in search of her birth mother. In succeeding, Janie also discovered the horrific circumstances of her own conception. The story spurs Jim Garlow, a pastor in California, to…
Read Now