Undemocratic
The freedom Americans enjoy is under attack from the “fourth branch” of government. That is the theme of the book, Undemocratic, written by constitutional attorney, Jay Sekulow. He is well aware of th...
Homosexual Bans and Boycotts
Homosexual bullies have reached a new low in their call for bans and boycotts. We are all familiar with what happens when a Christian photographer, baker, or florist declines to provide services for a...
Shifting Cultural Values
We live in different worlds and different cultures. To make that point David Brooks tells the story of two quarterbacks that played against each other in Super Bowl III. Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath w...
Losing in Iraq
Politicians are currently answering questions like: “Knowing what we know now, would you have supported invading Iraq in 2003?” Hindsight will not alter that decision or the devastating 2011 decision...
Too Much Stuff
We all have too much stuff. I can relate to this since I just moved and had to box everything up and move to a new house. Each year we give away lots of things, but I am still amazed at how many boxes...
Polling Bias
When you see a particular poll mentioned in the media, it is always good to take that poll with a grain of salt. All sorts of bias can result from the way the question was asked to the way in which th...
Battlefield America
Constitutional attorney John Whitehead expressed his concern about government intervention and the militarization of the police in his previous book, A Government of Wolves. He continues his investiga...
Church and Poverty
The church in general, and evangelical Christians in particular, has been helping people in poverty. But you wouldn’t know that if you attended a roundtable discussion of poverty at Georgetown Univers...
Candidates and Marriage
Most of the presidential candidates and hopefuls have figured out by now that they need to have an answer to the question: ‘What will you do if the U.S. Supreme Court comes down with a ruling in whic...
American Dream
Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about their chances of achieving and sustaining the American dream. That is the only conclusion you could draw from a recent Marist-McClatchy Poll. Americans “...
Converting Christians
Jim Denison recently found a “15-step strategy for converting Christians to atheism” and wrote about it in the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture. Although the article is supposed to help atheists con...
World’s Population in One City
On my radio program the other day, my guest made the point that you could fit the entire population of the world into Los Angeles. Since some people questioned that statistic, I thought I would provid...