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Government stimulus: Out of sight, out of mind

Dr. Shawn Ritenour
2 Sep 2010
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The President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian scheme, crediting the stimulus for saving or creating 3.6 million jobs and increasing the amount of private funds invested in the economy. What should we make of such claims? We would all do well to remember the wisdom of Frederic Bastiat: shopkeepers are not better off after having their windows broken by hoodlums, just as the victims of theft do not have their economies stimulated by thieves. Sure, the window […]

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Deficits, Debt, and Self-Deception

Samuel Gregg
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It passed almost unnoticed, but in late July the Obama Administration raised the Federal Government’s budget deficit forecast for fiscal year 2011 to $1.4 trillion. That’s up from February’s forecast of $1.267 trillion. In July alone, the Federal Government’s deficit was $165 billion, of which $20 billion was for interest-payments on debt.The long-term outlook is even worse. The U.S. Government is now borrowing approximately 41 cents of every dollar it spends. It’s also predicting additional borrowing of $8.5 trillion until 2020. If that eventuates, America’s national debt would exceed 77 percent of its annual economic output.At some point, most of […]

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His Caring Place: 25 Years of Saving Lives

The Good News
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In 1977, Julie West Sorrelle found herself in a frightening predicament that is faced by many young women in today’s society. At the age of eighteen, she was dealing with an unplanned pregnancy and decided an abortion might be her best option. Days before the event was to take place, and with the support and guidance of her parents, Julie’s future and that of her baby took a radical turn for the better. Julie decided to keep her child. She left South Florida and traveled to Pennsylvania to live in a Christian maternity home run by Jim and Anne Pierson. […]

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Dr. Ana Steele: Champion of the Dalit

Anitra Parmele
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Dr. Ana Steele is equally at home in the halls of Congress and the halls of academia. She has a masters degree from Georgetown University and masters and doctorate degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Harvard and lobbied members of Congress for the Dalit people of India. She is intelligent, articulate, and passionate. Her passion is symbolized by a picture on her bookshelf. Among the tomes in Italian, Greek, and Russian is a close-up shot of a young Indian girl whose wide brown eyes demand your attention. What is not immediately apparent is that at the time […]

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God does wonders through a willing heart

Marcie Blackstone
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I never was a writer.  I never kept a diary.  I never liked English class.  I confess – I even plagiarized most of my school papers.  But that didn’t matter to God when he called my husband and me to publish a Christian Newspaper in South Florida.  After much prayer, research, planning, and a trip to the library, Grif, a restaurant manager, became publisher and I, an interior designer, became editor within a few short months.  Neither of us had any clue what we were doing, but we were zealous in our young faith and hopeful that God was going […]

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Newsflash: Stalin liberates Normandy

Dr. Paul Kengor
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Call it another Twilight Zone moment, another ignominious contribution to the “you-can’t-make-this-up” category. First, Mao Zedong was honored by oblivious New Yorkers last October, with their Empire State Building aglow in red and yellow to commemorate the birth of People’s Republic of China. Mao’s nearest rival for the trophy for top mass murderer in history was Joseph Stalin. Perhaps other clueless Americans could find a way to honor Stalin, too – maybe closer to Washington, the nation’s capital.Hey, don’t laugh. The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., has done just that, erecting a statue of Stalin. No, I’m not kidding.Predictably, […]

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The Gospel: It’s not just for the lost!

The Good News
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I will never forget the day God opened my eyes to the understanding that the Gospel is not just for the lost; it is for the found too! When those scales fell from my eyes, what I saw overwhelmed me. For years, including many of my years in seminary, I thought the Gospel was simply a truth that was essential for getting the lost saved. How wrong I was! It is needed as much by the Christian as it is by the unbeliever.Dr. Kennedy first introduced me to this radical concept nearly 10 years ago. He asked, “The Gospel saved […]

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The Joy of Rebaptism

Anitra Parmele
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With the premiere of the movie What if… and its theme of regret at past decisions and the chance of spiritual “do-overs,” I’ve been thinking a lot about my own choices and their unexpected consequences. As long as the list is of decisions that I would change given the opportunity, there seems to be an equally long list of decisions for which I can take no credit that ultimately turned out to be gloriously “right.”I stood at the counter of a gift shop in Yardinet, paralyzed–supremely conscious of the lateness of the hour, the massive press of impatient people behind […]

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What do my kids hear?

The Good News
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Children who grow up in a house of screaming parents often grow up to be screaming parents themselves. The volume and words a parent uses around their children and to their children has an impact on them. But what about the more subtle things we say? What about the things we say on our mobile phones, when we forget the kids are in the back seat listening? What about the things we say when the kids are in the other room, listening? And they are listening!What do my kids hear when they hear me? What are the lessons we teach […]

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Financial training for your children

Rob West
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Take a moment to picture your children going off to college and managing a semester’s worth of money on their own.  Would they run up the debt and bounce checks or would they spend wisely with some left over? Maybe you are not sure how they would handle it, and now is the time to find out by teaching your children sound financial decisions so that they will become money-smart adults. Proverbs 22:6 tells us to “train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Unfortunately, most parents […]

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