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Flash Mobbing King’s Dream
Every black person apprehended for robbing stores in a flash mob should have their court hearing not in front of a judge but facing the 30-foot statute of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at his Washington memorial site. Each thief should be asked, “What do you think Dr. King would say to you right now?”The folly of more centralized power
Some in our churches and in government may disparage the tea party, and even wish its members a speedy banishment to Hell. But the tea party might be the powerful reminder we need to remind us that Washington can’t create Heaven on Earth.TV bias book not ready for primetime
Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV discovers bias in every aspect of TV programming, whether or not it possesses a “liberal agenda.”Protect the poor, not poverty programs
One of the disturbing aspects of the liberal/progressive faith campaign known as the Circle of Protection is that its organizers have such little regard – indeed are blind to -- the innate freedom of the human person.Controversial Christianity: Understanding faith and politics
As the race for the 2012 party nominations for president heats up, the question of religion and its place in politics surfaces yet again. Whether the controversy is over mosques or Mormonism, religion permeates much of today’s political talk, despite various pleas for a “separation of church and state” from both the secular and religious worlds. But what does the separation of church and state truly mean?Fertile ground for farm subsidy cuts
Farm subsidies raise food prices, benefit agribusiness, hurt farmers in the Third World, and make it harder for new farmers to enter the market.
Downfall: Europe's failed political class
Europe's political class has even developed distinctly familial characteristics.Commodifying compassion
Campaigns that commodify compassion judge morality purely in quantitative terms. If we spend more on social concerns, we are deemed to be more compassionate, more just.Minimum wage law backfires in American Samoa
A 1961 Reader’s Digest piece called it “America’s shame on the South Seas.” According to a new report from the United States General Accountability Office (GAO), the 19 percent decline in employment in the workforce that American Samoa has experienced since 2008 was in large part the result of imposing minimum hourly wages.Europe's not-so-revolutionary youth
By and large, the indignant ones want exactly what their parents and grandparents regard as their birthright: not-too-exacting jobs-for-life, free healthcare, state-guaranteed minimal incomes, six weeks paid annual vacation, early retirement, and generous state-provided pensions.Hell, Heaven, and progressive Catholics
With another presidential election looming, it won’t be long before many self-described progressive Catholics start issuing countless statements about numerous policy issues. Though many such Catholics sit rather loosely with Catholic teaching on questions like life and marriage, their “relaxed” position on such issues is belied by their stridency on, for instance, economic matters. Woe betide he who suggests welfare cuts can sometimes be a legitimate policy option, for thou art anathema.A circle of exchange is better than a Circle of Protection
If a safety net becomes too comfortable, people are inclined to remain in it. Welfare program advocates deny this vehemently — everyone wants to work, they say; they just need the chance — but statistical evidence and a realistic understanding of human nature contradict them.