Newsworthy |
Florida to expand Medicaid after all: Florida Gov. Rick Scott
reversed course yesterday on Obamacare, announcing his state will
expand Medicaid to 1.3 million…
International |
Pope Benedictus XVI became the first head of the Roman Catholic
Church since 1415 to resign∫ announcing he will step down Feb. 28,
citing his “advanced…
Newsworthy |
Airbrushing Jesus.
The Telegraph
in London reports that a team of “mystery shoppers from Nielsen
brand auditors visited the card aisles in branches of…
Media |
It’s usually unwise to underestimate the human capacity for
gullibility, an idea reinforced by
The Onion
’s most recent coup. The satirical newspaper is…
Daniel of the Year |
It’s a new day for China’s Communist leadership, but not for the
dissidents the government imprisons. They linger in remote jails,
beaten, forgotten, and…
China |
Anglican Bishop Ding Guangxun, the longtime head of the
government-sanctioned Protestant church in China, died Nov. 22 in
Nanjing at the age of 97. The cause…
International |
Operation World is a great resource—loaded with demographic
information about religious and ethnic groups around the world—but
it’s also a daily prayer…
International |
Tahrir Square in Cairo, once the central site for democratic change
in Egypt, has turned on President Mohamed Morsi, the movement’s
leading force for…
