Signs and Wonders

Michele Bachmann

Signs and Wonders: The two Michel(l)es and Hollywood, poisoning snakes, Huntsman and gays

Newsworthy |  Courting Hollywood. Lenny’s Deli is in the fancy Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The restaurant is delightfully down-to-earth, a place with a lunch…

Laura Bush

Signs and Wonders: Laura Bush, Virginia’s Bob McDonnell, songwriters, and Jerry Lewis

Newsworthy |  Laura Bush wants out. Former first lady Laura Bush told Larry King back in 2010 that she favored same-sex “marriage.” Today, not so much. A pro-homosexual…

A pallet of thousands of absentee ballots await mailing at the Miami-Dade County election center in 2012.

Signs and Wonders: Voting, cops in schools, megachurches, and Denzel’s cry to God

Newsworthy |  Easy to cheat? In his State of the Union address, President Obama vowed to reduce long lines at the voting booth and to “improve the voting experience in…

Bill McKibben (center) leads yesterday's march.

Signs and Wonders: Climate change, sexually transmitted diseases, NASCAR, and Benny Hinn

Newsworthy |  Climate change. Ironies abounded yesterday as a crowd estimated at about 30,000 marched on Washington to protest global warming. Irony No. 1: It was one of…

A meteorite contrail is seen over a village near Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Friday.

Signs and Wonders: Meteorites, megachurches, blacklists, and chemical abortions

Newsworthy |  Close call. A meteorite that became a huge fireball streaked across Russia’s skies above the Ural Mountains early Friday morning. It exploded in the…

Sen. Marco Rubio

Signs and Wonders: Minimum wage contradictions, Rubio’s response, more on the Grammys, and gay appointees

Newsworthy |  Minimum Wage Contradictions. President Barack Obama called for more jobs and a higher minimum wage last night in his State of the Union address. As I…

Elton John leads a tribute performance of

Signs and Wonders: Grammys, physician-assisted suicide, and Dick Cheney

Newsworthy |  Grammys underwhelm. The bar is set pretty low when the two best things you can say about Sunday night’s telecast of the Grammy Awards are: no wardrobe…

Boy Scouts recite the Scout Oath during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas capitol, in Austin, Texas.

Signs and Wonders: Inclusivity and its consequences, polygamy, and more on scouting

Newsworthy |  How’s inclusion working for ya? Is it just my imagination, or are religious denominations that say they are inclusive and diverse becoming increasingly…

French President Francois Hollande, left, shakes hands with Dalil Boubakeur, head of France's Muslim Council

Signs and Wonders: More on the Scouts, Islam and Europe, Super Bowl ads, and Chris Whittle

Newsworthy |  The Muslim Future of Europe. According to this weekend’s  New York Times , France now has about six million Muslims out of a total population of 65…

Geraldo Rivera

Signs and Wonders: Geraldo’s Senate bid, tipping in St. Louis, tuition and tax tussle, pastor back to jail

Newsworthy |  Sen. Geraldo? In 1986 Geraldo Rivera hosted a live television “event” in which he went searching for gangster Al Capone’s “vault” beneath…

Albert Mohler

Signs and Wonders: Scout reaction, Mexican cult busted, big idea of religion, immigration talking points

Newsworthy |  Scouting exodus? Conservative religious and pro-family groups are making their voices heard in the Scout debate. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

The Illinois state capitol building in Springfield.

Signs and Wonders: Illinois downgraded, Senate business, Hurricane history, school choice

Newsworthy |  The Illini in the coalmine. Illinois could be tasting what others states might have to swallow soon. On Friday, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s…

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