Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 330

How dogs say, “I’m just playing”

You know how a dog will get down on his paws with his rear in the air, especially when meeting another dog?  That’s called a “play bow” and means that he wants to play.  He will also do it if he bites the dog and wants to communicate that “I didn’t really mean it.”  Or, [Read More...]

More on the Christian sentenced to die for her faith

More details about the Sudanese woman we blogged about who was sentenced to hang because she would not renounce her faith is married to an American.   Her father was a Muslim, so her conversion constitutes apostasy.  Also, marrying a Christian constitutes adultery, for which she was sentenced to 100 lashes.   Since she is pregnant, the [Read More...]

The pulpit as the Empty Tomb

Thanks to Darren Jones for pointing me to this post on how the Early Church linked the pulpit to Christ’s empty tomb. “Ambo” is the term used in Roman Catholic circles for the two stationary lecterns on either side of the altar from which the Word of God is read and from where the sermon [Read More...]

How Canada is excluding the pro-life agenda

The head of Canada’s Liberal Party has decreed that all new candidates running for parliament in his party–or is it running for any office? that part isn’t clear to me–must be pro-abortion.  The socialist New Democratic party has a similar policy.  The Conservatives will allow pro-lifers to run for office, but they are not allowed [Read More...]

An even greater food source than the McDouble

Thanks to Todd, who, in a comment critiquing the Freakonomics praise of the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as the world’s greatest food source, found an even better alternative.From Todd Stadler: Behold the superior alternative that I discovered with less than 10 minutes of Googling: Peanuts. Now, peanuts do not have a single brand name, much less [Read More...]

Pope calls for redistribution of wealth

The Pope called on the United Nations to mobilize governments to help the poor through the redistribution of wealth.  This suggests a conundrum:  Catholic conservatives are the most likely to believe in papal authority, and yet what happens when the papal authority teaches against conservative principles, such as the virtues of the free market? I’d [Read More...]

Maximum wage

Journalist Michael J. Totten visits Havana to see how things are going in still-Communist Cuba: In the United States, we have a minimum wage; Cuba has a maximum wage—$20 a month for almost every job in the country. (Professionals such as doctors and lawyers can make a whopping $10 extra a month.) Sure, Cubans get [Read More...]

Yet another Obamacare problem

Another Obamacare fiasco: The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million Americans for their health plans in the new federal insurance marketplace and has been unable so far to fix the errors, according to internal documents and three people familiar with the situation. The problem means that potentially hundreds of thousands [Read More...]

Renounce Christianity or die

Globally, we are back to the early Church. A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Twenty-seven-year-old Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who is already the mother of a 20-month-old son, was convicted of apostasy on Sunday and given four days to abandon her faith. [Read More...]

Cat hero

Cats get little credit for expressing love to their owners, but maybe they are just introverted.  In times of crisis, they can rise to the occasion.  After the jump, a video of a cat rescuing a 4-year-old from a vicious dog.   From CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Family Cat Saves Boy From Dog Attack | NBC [Read More...]