Christmas Rush Got You Down? Try This One Neat (Ancient) Fix!
According to pop-culture lore when Lucy Van Pelt told Charlie Brown, in “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” to “get the biggest aluminum tree you can find, Charlie Brown, maybe painted pink!” she wrecked the...
View ArticlePaul Krugman Doesn’t Get The True Depth Of Conservative Villainy
Paul Krugman has found out the hidden truth of his political opponents once again: Republican opposition to Obamacare is motivated by how much they hate the poor: “The purpose of most health care...
View ArticleWhat The Dallas Buyer’s Club Tells Us About Crony Capitalism
I studied economics and never found it to be dismal. I even laughed at my professors’ econ jokes, which tells you most of what you need to know about how sad my college career was. But there’s a new...
View ArticleSpontaneous Charity Is Good; Thoughtful Charity Is Even Better
By now, any American with an active Facebook account has been treated to the spectacle of countless friends dousing themselves with ice water. The Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS (also known as Lou...
View Article‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ Is The Worst Christmas Song Ever
The worst Christmas song ever isn’t actually a Christmas song. It’s just a song that uses Christmas in the hook and was popular when it was released. So Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” gets...
View ArticleI Helped Someone And Feel Terrible About It
I work as a barista at a small shop near our house. It’s a warm and welcoming spot for suburbanites to buy artisan drinks delivered with excellence. Most people who come into the coffee shop have the...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Charity, John Kasich Doesn’t Practice What He Preaches
Ohio Gov. John Kasich talks a big game about giving to the poor and needy, but when it comes to his own charitable contributions, Kasich doesn’t practice what he preaches. Kasich, an Obamacare booster,...
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In 2013, The Clinton Foundation Only Spent 10 Percent Of Its Budget On...
After a week of being attacked for shady bookkeeping and questionable expenditures, the Clinton Foundation is fighting back. In a tweet posted last week, the Clinton Foundation claimed that 88 percent...
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Top Clinton Foundation Official: “This Is Not Charity”
The Clinton Foundation is currently under fire for its practice of secretly collecting foreign donations while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State and then refusing to disclose the donations...
View Article5 Things Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Capitalism
How do I love Taylor Swift? Let me count the ways. She writes upbeat music that triggers romantic nostalgia, she gives generously to her fans, and she lays the smackdown on super-successful companies...
View ArticleThe Christian Temptation Towards Socialism
The last temptation of Christ may not have occurred in the desert when Satan confronted Jesus. In the biblical book of Matthew, Christ goes alone into the desert and fasts for 40 days. While he is...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Be Doers Of Conservatism And Not Just Hearers
Review of “The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America,” by Arthur C. Brooks (2015), and “Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results,”...
View ArticleStickers Can’t Prove Religious Kids Are More Selfish
Are you religious? Are you raising children? That’s a shame, because they’re probably selfish jerks. That’s the take-away from a new study (funded, oddly enough, by the John Templeton Foundation)...
View ArticleU.S. ‘Welcomes’ Migrant Children To Sex Slavery
An Associated Press investigation and Senate hearing last week revealed that the Obama administration cannot locate thousands of the 90,000 (and counting) migrant children it welcomed into the United...
View ArticlePope Francis Was Spot-On About Donald Trump
So Pope Francis was asked a question about Donald Trump. He was actually asked about a whole host of issues that are of much more consequence, but I want this article to get lots of clicks, so we’ll...
View ArticleHow To Use Documentary In Addressing Poverty, Foreign Aid, And Compassion
“Poverty, Inc.” is a documentary shot in 20 different countries, exploring the rise of charity as a multibillion dollar industry and how our American dollars have an impact, for better or worse, on...
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Pew: Religious Americans Happier With Their Lives
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that religious Americans are overall happier with their lives. Those deemed “highly religious,” or who say they pray daily and attend...
View ArticleCan We Stop Lying About Every Fake Political Outrage Already?
Listening to the Right rail about Hillary’s “short circuit” and the Left mirror that behavior in seizing Donald Trump’s veiled implication that Second Amendment advocates could deal with Hillary in...
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What Today’s Christians Can Learn From Antiquity About Living In A Pagan World
Mollie Hemingway had a very nice article in The Federalist the other day in which she suggests that our society’s sexual obsession is a new religion. She writes, This new religion has fervent adherents...
View ArticleIs The Clinton Or Trump Foundation A Bigger Shell Game?
Truth, justice, and the American Way can be abbreviated as fairness: we are nothing if not a generally fair-minded people. Our fellow Americans in Queens, New York did us all proud at a recent Kanye...
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