It is tough finding solid books for children to read today. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World makes the cut, though: Doyle is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories, but The Lost World is the clear predecessor of Crichton’s Jurassic Park series. Readers familiar with both will recognize many similar elements, but Doyle’s novel is more…
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The High Cost of Good Intentions
Welfare harms the people the money comes from and the people the money goes to. Here’s an excerpt from John Cogan’s new book, The High Cost of Good Intentions, that helps make this case: The book’s central theme is that the creation of entitlements brings forth relentless forces that cause them to inexorably expand. These liberalizing…
Sixty Hours of GOP Dysfunction on Spending
Do you think the Republicans will ever learn? Here is the portrait of a dysfunctional party: On Tuesday (June 19), the House Republicans revealed a budget that set a goal of spending cuts totaling $6,454 billion. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans defeated legislation to cut spending by $1 billion. On Thursday, House Republicans voted to renew $20…
Stunning Footage of the Thai Cave Rescue
When you see the ingenuity, commitment, and love in something like this, it is really hard to deny there is a God:
Fired Academy Sports manager rehired after backlash
Sometimes the good guys do win. And politically-correct corporations actually listen to the public: A manager at Academy Sports in Tallahassee, who was fired for tackling a shoplifter as he ran out of the store with a stolen gun and ammunition, has now gotten his job back. A lawyer for Dean Crouch, the ousted manager, confirmed…
Mike Pence Gives Unflinching Answer When Asked If He Wants Roe v. Wade Overturned
It is amazing how often folks flinch when given a chance to speak the truth. Yet, we shouldn’t be too surprised–it is in our fallen human nature to fear man rather than God. Peter exhibited some of the same problems and Paul had to call him out for it: But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch,…
Women’s March slammed for goof in statement on Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
Organizers of last year’s Women’s March on Washington made it clear, through a mistake, that the Left was set to oppose whoever Trump nominated to the Supreme Court: Conservatives jumped on an error in a statement released Tuesday night by the organizers of last year’s Women’s March on Washington in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of…
Rush Limbaugh on clergy who accept socialism
I like the Acton Institute and I like Rush Limbaugh, and here I get both in one article. Rev. Ben Johnson of Acton uses a quote from Limbaugh to talk about how many in the modern church, Catholic and Protestant, have abandoned the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the social gospel: For too many, the…
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Many people understand the book of Revelation as portraying what is going to happen at the end of the world. This comes from what is known as the pre-millennial view, popularized in Tim LaHaye’s and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Left Behind series, which is a recent interpretation pushed by dispensationalists. Rather than see the Bible as a portraying the unfolding of God’s covenant…
Revoice, Concupiscence, and Worldliness in the PCA
The decision of Memorial Presbyterian Church (PCA) in St. Louis, Missouri to host the Revoice Conference has raised quite a ruckus in the Presbyterian Church of America and some other evangelical denominations. The purpose of the conference is: Supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex-attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they can flourish while observing…