The puzzle of creative infidels

The puzzle of creative infidels

Faith & Inspiration |  When Larry Norman was inventing Christian rock back in the 1970s, he sang, “Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?” Have you noticed that while all…

People wait in line for gas in Keyport, N.J., earlier this month.

In a crisis, liberty is love

Economy |  Last week I shocked some Christian people when I advocated price gouging, which is merely a pejorative term for allowing the market to set prices not only in…

Drivers line up for gas in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Price gouging as neighbor love

Economy |  One of the unexpected hardships with which Superstorm Sandy assaulted Long Island, N.Y., was gas lines the likes of which we have not seen since the energy…

People waiting to vote file past those casting ballots in New York last Tuesday.

What I saw at the polling place

Politics |  Last Tuesday, I voted for the first time in an American presidential election. No, I’m not a college student. I’m a 50-year-old college professor. But I…

FEMA administrator Craig Fugate (left), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and President Obama meet with New Jersey residents affected by the storm.

Sandy-sized government

Government |  The scale of destruction and human devastation that Superstorm Sandy brought against the northeastern United States has left many citizens grateful for…

Is business good?

Is business good?

Business |  Mitt Romney has been arguing that we should elect him to the presidency because he will be good for business and therefore good for America. President Obama…

Living within our national means

Living within our national means

Economy |  I once knew a fellow with seemingly no awareness of the connection between the nice things he bought on credit (condo, Corvette, Bermuda vacation) and his…

The college cost disease

The college cost disease

Education |  When I was a boy, families put aside money in a college fund for their children’s higher education. A generation later it was called a second mortgage.

The business election

The business election

Business |  With unemployment at 8.1 percent and the national debt up 50 percent to more than $16 billion since we elected this president, the 2012 presidential campaign…

The cross and the flag

The cross and the flag

Religion |  The spectacle of international Islam this past week has been astonishing for Westerners to behold. We have seen a global wave of rage on account of an obscure…

Sri Lankan Muslims protest by burning effigies of President Obama and U.S. flags.

Our burning embassies and our president

Foreign Policy |  There have been riots and burnings from England to Indonesia. Islamist radicals murdered our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. All this, we are…

Mitt Romney

Evangelicals and Mormons together

Politics |  Mitt Romney's Mormonism is shaping up to be more of an oddity than an obstacle in the minds of 2012 American voters, even among evangelicals. His situation is…

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