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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video is worth 100,000 (did I get the math right, Christian? ). Here’s a CNN video of President Obama, and his press secretary, Mr. Robert Gibbs, fielding reporters’ questions about Cabinet-level cutbacks:
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
According to the April 18 The New York Times, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to increase its 6.7 million DNA profile data base to 1.2 million new entries per year by 2012. That’s a lot of data on a lot of people. How do they propose to accomplish this?
Until now, the federal government genetically [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
A question by Christian at Smaller Manhattans got me to thinking and digging around a bit. Here’s what I found: an interview with Andrew J. Cherlin, author of The Marriage Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (Random House, April 14, 2009). Although I’ve not read the book, Cherlin’s answer to [...]
Posted in SCNT, Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
The Obama Administration is having difficulty swallowing the April 15 Tea Party, which according to the Christian Science Monitor hosted over a half-million participants nationwide.
Today’s The Washington Post reports that the president, apparently a coffee drinker, will
order [Cabinet] members to identify a combined $100 million in budget cuts over the next 90 days.
Of course, to [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.