Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 203

Obama’s top priority will be gun control

In an interview with GQ magazine, President Obama said that his top priority for his final year in office will be gun control. From Dave Boyer,  Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year – Washington Times: President Obama hopes to make gun control the top issue of his final year in [Read More...]

Terrorist weekend

As the world focuses on ISIS, we are reminded that we also have to contend with our old terrorist foe al-Qaeda.  In the African nation of Mali, an al-Qaeda affiliated group attacked a luxury hotel, taking 170 people, many of them foreign tourists, hostage.  Commandos stormed the hotel, but some 20 hostages  were killed, including [Read More...]

Commenting standards have been set

OK, friends, to give the new World Table comment system a true tryout, we’ve set the parameters.  You will need a rating of over 40 to comment or give ratings.  Comments with a cumulative negative or strongly negative rating will collapse, though readers can click and read them if they want to. Now that the [Read More...]

Discrimination against Christian refugees

The Obama administration has indignantly rejected suggestions that the United States favor Christians and other persecuted religious minorities among the Syrian refugees.  But think tanker Kyle Shideler gives evidence that there is already a religious test, one that is stacked against Christians.  He documents  systematic discrimination against Christian refugees. See Kyle Shideler, Center for Security [Read More...]

Bullying and intolerance at Yale

For Halloween, the administration at Yale issued dictates about Halloween costumes, lest anyone be offended.  A lecturer, who along with her professor husband, is “master” of a residential college, responded with a learned e-mail pointing out that it might not be so bad for a little blonde girl to dress up as Mulan, Disney’s Asian [Read More...]

Bernie Sanders explains democratic socialism

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave his much-anticipated speech in which he explained his ideology of “democratic socialism.”  He said that he doesn’t want the state to own the means of production (the classic definition of socialism).  Rather, he wants to emulate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Sanders said that virtually all of the New Deal programs we [Read More...]

The 1st use of the Law and the new commenting system

We theology nerds talk quite a bit about the Second Use of the Law (the theological use, the “mirror,” which convicts us of sin and drives us to the Gospel), and we argue about the Third Use of the Law (the didactic use, the “guide,” which shows Christians how to live).  We don’t usually say [Read More...]

Should we continue the Syrian immigration program?

The United States has committed to accepting 10,000 immigrants from Syria.  That’s far less than the European nations are faced with, but the attack on Paris has many Americans calling for a halt to that program.  To be sure, most of the immigrants are fleeing ISIS, but ISIS has boasted that it will mingle with [Read More...]

The Democrats’ war on youth

Democrats accuse Republicans of waging a war on women.  Republicans could come back with the charge that Democrats are waging a war on youth.  So argues W. James Antle in the Washington Examiner.  Not only are the Democratic party’s leadership and presidential candidates much older than those of the Republicans, but Democratic policies are proving [Read More...]

Pope Francis on intercommunion with Lutherans

Pope Francis met with a congregation of Lutherans in Rome, giving them a chalice and kind words.  Then a woman asked when she might be able to share Holy Communion with her Catholic husband.  Read what the Pope said after the jump. From a transcript posted at Whispers in the Loggia: “Life Is Bigger Than [Read More...]