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If you want to decide who to vote for as a Christian mathematically: 1. Go through the list and decide between Obama and Romney on that is...

The payroll tax cut benefits the majority of people, especially the middle class.  The tax cuts that were the big issue in the supercommitte...

I feel confident I could come up with a budget deal that most Americans would vote for... just not one that either Democrats or Republicans ...

Two headlines caught my eye today in one German newspaper: "Hopefully, they know what they are doing" and "The Germans are be...

Time to cut bait.  Everybody has all their talking points for the next election.  Everyone knows what will fly and what won't.  So here...

It's frustrating to me that, apparently, 70% of Americans don't understand what the debt ceiling is about.  It is emphatically  NOT ...

If you can't see, I'm smiling.  This FOX news article is about the fact that the current estimate for what the TARP bailout will co...

I'm too busy to write something this morning, so I'll just pose a question.  In most cases (except when the state has some resource ...

Just some quick musings for a change of pace early in the morning. 1. The original intent of capitalism's inventors, Adam Smith and Je...

This is now the final installment of my reflections on the Wheaton conference on "Government, Foreign Assistance, and the Mission of G...

Here's the third and maybe second to last post about the conference I attended last week at Wheaton called "Government, Foreign Ass...

This is the second in a series of posts unpacking the recent conference I attended at Wheaton called Government, Foreign Assistance, and the...

I was privileged to sit in on a conference at Wheaton these past two days called "Government, Foreign Assistance, and God's Mission...

Over the last few weeks I've been slowly making my way through the superb PBS trilogy called "Commanding Heights." It's ...

Ben Bernanke is Time's Man of the Year. I'm not competent to judge the economics, but I'm good with this choice. A lot of peo...

By now everyone's heard that AIG, recipient of billions in the bailout, is paying millions in bonuses to the very department that caused...

I don't know that we're headed for a depression. I hope not. But it occurred to me today that they called World War I, "The Gre...

I hear they're afraid that if you only pay CEO's of failed companies $500,000 a year, they won't be able to find anyone competen...

Are GM, Ford, and Chrysler serious, wanting Congress to give them everything between where the price is and $3.50 a gallon? http://www.msnbc...

It is with great pleasure that I jettison part of this section into the first draft stage: ______ For the last two thousand years, Christian...