The Treasury Department announced yesterday that it was selling off its last stake in Citigroup and that it would make (note, make , not lose ) about $12.5 billion on the $45 billion investment it made in Citigroup at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. That’s about an 11% annual . . . . Continue Reading »
The Book: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture by Adam S. McHugh :10 — The Gist: Many churches—particularly evangelical churches—tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized, causing some Christians to feel they are not being . . . . Continue Reading »
I came to this conclusion very reluctantly, but single payer must be rejected because it leads directly to terrible rationing in times of economic difficulty—as I wrote in the Weekly Standard this week. And now California is threatening to cut MediCal patients off kidney dialysis! From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Two big promises President Obama made about Obamacare—that it would cut jobs and allow us all to keep our current health care plan—have been labeled “more likely false than true” by a Congressional independent financial analyst. And they cut to the core of the sales . . . . Continue Reading »
“Those people who say it’s the journey, not the destination, do not know what they are talking about,” begins Pastor Russell Saltzman in our first On the Square column this morning in which he shares his experience of his mother’s recent and rapid decline into Dementia : She . . . . Continue Reading »
My previous post about China’s proposed megacity reminded me of this thought experiment by James Fallows : If Americans wanted to imagine what it would take to be “strong” in the way China currently is, he said, all we’d have to do is think of moving the entire population of . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the Daily Telegraph , China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis that is bigger than New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island combined: The “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme will create a 16,000 sq . . . . Continue Reading »
Charlotte Shane is the pen name of a young woman who, as she says, writes “honestly about my life as a prostitute on a modestly trafficked blog.” Although Shane claims she doesn’t glamorize her profession or revel in “sensasionalist hype”, she has numerous young . . . . Continue Reading »
Future translators of the New Testament might wish to consult this remote community in the Pontic region of Asia Minor:Incidentally, ???????? means Roman, which harks back to the time when Orthodox Christians living in the Eastern Roman Empire called themselves ???????, or Romans, a designation used . . . . Continue Reading »
At the end of his speech last night, President Obama said, “And tonight, more than two centuries later, it’s because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.” If you were surprised to hear that the union is strong . . . . Continue Reading »
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