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The Sorry State of Evangelical Rhetoric - Sovereign Nations

The Sorry State of Evangelical Rhetoric - Sovereign Nations Stephen Wolfe writes: "The social justice talk in evangelicalism is remarkable for the absence of systematic thinking on the pertinent questions of justice. One rarely encounters precise and detailed theories of...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 15, 2019 10:25 AM

Report: Stating Current Year Still Leading Argument For Social Reform | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Report: Stating Current Year Still Leading Argument For Social Reform | The Onion - America's Finest News Source A fictional news story gives expression to a Chestertonian view of the cult of progress. "'When it comes to making a case...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 20, 2014 10:18 AM

Tom Coburn Leaves a Lonely Place Lonelier - Bloomberg

Tom Coburn Leaves a Lonely Place Lonelier - Margaret Carlson - Bloomberg "In the Senate, Coburn pushed the sharpened-pencil auditors at the General Accounting Office to find duplication, fraud, waste and abuse in government. This quest wasn't merely a rhetorical...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 30, 2014 4:00 PM

Oooh, Don't Forget, 'Now Is The Time To Act'! - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

Oooh, Don't Forget, 'Now Is The Time To Act'! - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online A handy-dandy bingo card for tracking all of Obama's straw man arguments and rhetorical crutches during his health care speech....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 22, 2009 5:17 PM

Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled | Gerard Baker - Times Online

Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled | Gerard Baker - Times Online Europeans are puzzled at the thought that their preferred presidential candidates could lose: "The essential problem coming to light is a profound disconnect between the Barack Obama...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 14, 2008 7:17 PM

RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Speech

RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Speech "Candidates make all kinds of promises about what they will do, and voters need to find some way to gauge whether they will actually do what they say. One way to do that...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 18, 2008 11:57 PM

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine: Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine: Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education Gene Edward Veith on classical education: "If you go back to the Romans and the Greeks, there were basically two kinds of education. Slaves were taught to do their job and...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 24, 2007 11:26 PM