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Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2009
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, had the following remarks about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the US Supreme Court: ‘President Obama has chosen a nominee with a compelling personal story over a judicial pick with a solid constitutional judicial philosophy. A compelling personal story is no substitute for allegiance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2009
Diogenes at Catholic Culture has a brilliant analogy that illuminates the difficulty in having reasoned discourse with today’s abortion culture. Here’s a teaser (for the rest, you’ll have to visit the site): I see nothing wrong with swatting flies. Let’s say that you have a different opinion. You think the lives of flies are sacred, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2009
The Washington Post and other news outlets are reporting that President Obama will announce Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the US Supreme Court at 10:15 CT. As we might expect, Wikipedia already has been updated. Noted the Post on May 7, Sotomayor would probably be a reliably liberal vote on a court split into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26th, 2009
In an op-ed piece in yesterday’s The New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat mentions “The Paradox of Declining Female Unhappiness,” a paper by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers. Based on the paper’s abstract found at the National Bureau of Economic Research, it might be worth the five bucks’ purchase price: By many objective measures [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
