The doorbell rang at my home yesterday morning to a not uncommon visit from two members of the Jehovah Witness Church. This is I’m sure a common occurrence for many readers, as I can remember my home receiving similar visits from the time I was a child. Over the past several years, I have made it ...

Politico posted an op-ed recently by Nathan J. Diament, the director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, who teaches religion and politics at American University. Diament underscores recent acts by the Democrats and the Obama Administration’s efforts to ...

Bookworm: 1. American Jews, like most Americans, wrongly believe Hitler was a right winger, rather than a totalitarian. They’re therefore scared of right wingers. 2. American Jews, like most Americans, wrongly believe Hitler was backed by the church. They’re therefore scared of Christians. 3. Am...

More nonsense: A quick look at the study reveals all sorts of problems: It doesn’t examine individuals, but rather averages across areas, which leads to a red state vs. blue state analysis that allows for startling headlines but in fact tells us very little. One of the findings is that Utah ha...

Public pension funds are in the tank: Something will have to change. Without a restored boom in stock prices, public pension funds will have a very hard time meeting their obligations. Either governments will have to increase taxes – perhaps dramatically – or force public employees to endure the...

Watch out: When asked whether the stimulus package had turned into a spending spree, President Obama acknowledged it with pride. “That’s the point. Seriously, that’s the point.� But that’s not the point; not the point at all. And it’s a shame BHO doesn’t realize it and a greater shame ...

Melanie Phillips: President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep a...

Today: If you were only going to say one thing about theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), you would tell the story that led up to his death in a Nazi prison on April 9, 1945, at age 39. But today is the anniversary of his birth, so here is a reflection Bonhoeffer’s way of living a Christian...

Here is the entire CNN Breaking News item: German Chancellor Angela Merkel demands Pope Benedict XVI reject Holocaust denial. I have been unable to find a corresponding entry on the main CNN website but did find this on Google’s AP feed: Terezin Concentration Camp, Czech Republic Buy From Art....

David Warren: To set any of the Guantanamo inmates free, on some jurisprudential technicality, is to smear one’s hands with the blood of their victims when they return to their trade. This is not a hypothetical proposition: for while the numbers are disputed, a proportion of “low risk...