The headlines are oddly mixed. The Bangkok Post writes, “Iran welcomes Obama’s olive branch”, yet even within it we read: “We welcome the wish of the president of the United States to put away past differences,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr said in reaction to Obama’s message…
The AP reports that a record number of babies were born in the US in 2007. Furthermore, “births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago.” According to a leading fertility researcher at Duke, S. Philip Morgan, it has become more…
In “Bonus furor may prompt limits on AIG bailout money”, AP Philip Elliot writes: President Barack Obama and his top aides expressed outrage at reports that American International Group Inc. went ahead with $165 million in bonuses even though the company received more than $170 billion in federal rescue money….
For the first time, Pope Benedict has directly addressed condom use. The AP reports, “Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with…
Two articles caught my eye this past week. Neither of them really portends good things, IMO. The 1st was reported by COG Writer on 11 March. Robert Thiel commented on a Christian Science Monitor article titled “The coming evangelical collapse” by Michael Spencer. Let’s face it: Most “evangelicals” couldn’t articulate…
Dear President Obama, It is with great regret that I heard on the radio today that you have removed the ban on embryonic stem cell research. I initially thought I would not speak to the subject, but it is because of comments that you, Sir, made today that prompt me…
Yesteray, Yahoo! UK Finance ran an article “TOPWRAP 4-Bank woes forces Germany into nationalisation law“, and DW ran an article “German Government Considers Bank Takeover“. This is a reversal of a policy about seizing private property that has been in effect since the end of WWII “becoming the latest government…
Obviously, I’ve been too preoccupied with other things. Some of you know my circumstances, and you may reason that I’m being a bit hard on myself, but the reality is that I somehow missed this in the hustle and bustle of life’s events. I just found out today, via COG…
Well, I see that the AFA has issued its first alert about President Obama’s agenda. Whether or not they are overreacting, as their tendency sometimes seems to be, remains to be seen. It is no surprise that he is pursuing a liberal agenda. After all, that is what he ran…