Many in today's soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we befriend our teenagers (literally [...]
Zhao Xiao, one of China's top economists, started reading the Bible in 2002 while traveling in the United States and researching a paper on American business culture....
Zhao, who lives in Beijing with his wife and two daughters, professed Christ [...]
The article summary: "All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of'" [...]
As Dr. Shetty [...]
When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn't have anticipated being accused of selling out his race.
Mr. Davis was the only black Member' [...]
From Speed Bump with some providential timing, given my recent posting on this rap video!
[...] With Thanksgiving just around the corner, encouragement [for the unemployed] may come from an unexpected source: the Puritans.
Often misunderstood and perennially maligned, the Puritans—tested first by religious persecution and later by [...]
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Excerpts from a long article by Justin Lahart in the WSJ on some amazing research...
Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test [...]
Remember that 35% tariff President Obama imposed on tires imported from China this month?...Since the tariff announcement on September 11, U.S. tire wholesalers have been warning that their sales prices to retailers will increase by about 15% on average. [...]
But I think it's terrific that liberals are finally willing to start looking at outcomes to judge a system. I say we start right away with the public' [...]
(17) America's low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries' socialist health care systems are better than ours.
America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we've been measuring these things, [...]
I love to see Malthusians gettin' a beatin' (with hat tip to and analysis by Sevens)...
From FunTheory.com...An eye-opening documentary called Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria is being released this week by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation—an outfit I endorse.
I dare say the film will be controversial because it [...]
"I probably wouldn't have started with evangelicals," said the Brigham Young University (BYU) professor, considering the antagonism between the two groups' [...]
From Peter Leithart in Touchstone...
Great stuff from the Onion!Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason" [...]
Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades [...]
The R-rated comedy may be the most sincere movie the Coens, ever aloof and controlled, have made in their 14-film career. There's never a stray shot or a line of dialogue out of place...but there are moments when the [...]
From Suzanne Ma (hat tip: C-J), an article which starts with AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com as a springboard...Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the [...]
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One of those quirky articles on the front page of the WSJ-- this one by Timothy Martin...In most ways, Columbus is a typical Indiana [small] town....But as you emerge from the cornfields that surround Columbus and head into town, things immediately begin to look different.
To the west, Columbus welcomes you along the main highway with [...]
Cool demographic info-- in charts/graphs, tables and maps-- from Census Bureau data (hat tip: World)... [...] Black leaders constantly remind Americans of our racism. Should not these same leaders protest the expansion of government control contained in the health-care [...]
