by Kevin Bauder | Jan 31, 2017 | America, Education, How the Left Thinks, Learned Societies, Liberalism
The board of the American Academy of Religion released the following statement on Monday. The statement does not reflect the views of the membership. Statement Issued by the Board of the American Academy of Religion on U.S. Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 30, 2017 | America, Culture, How the Left Thinks
Writing for First Things, K. E. Columbini points out the strong bias against rural life that dominates the media. Examples of this [rural] purge abound, mostly between 1969 and 1975: Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Mayberry R.F.D., Lassie, Family Affair, Hogan’s...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 24, 2017 | America, Art and Literature, Culture, Social Issues
The Washington Post reports that as part of his budget-cutting measures, President Trump wants to pull the plug on the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 19, 2017 | America, Conservatism, Judiciary, Politics
Adam McCleod is a law professor. After being ticketed (wrongly) by a traffic camera, he fought the accusation, eventually securing vindication in court–and spending more than the cost of the ticket. Here he offers his views on the constitutionality of the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 17, 2017 | America, Politics
According to Jim Copland and Rafael A. Mangual, 98 percent of the crimes on the books in America are the result of bureaucratic regulation rather than direct legislation. By taking crime creation almost entirely out of the political process, the government has...
by Jeff Straub | Jan 16, 2017 | America, Baptists, Culture, Ethics
Historic Washington D.C. Baptist church calls lesbian couple as co-pastors. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/9/lesbian-couple-hired-co-pastor-dc-church/
