Taking on the idols
This last month, Swedish authorities demonstrated to the world their determination to fight vicious criminal activities of smuggling dangerous controlled substances in the country. Prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand issued international arrest warrant for two Britons who have been involved in organizing a criminal ring for smuggling the substance into Sweden through Norway, skillfully using the policy of open borders between Norway […]
Read moreI am not going to toot Rick Perry’s horn. Neither do I want to do it. In my eyes, Rick Perry still has a history as a man of the establishment, a neocon, and a politician without clear ideology except being a political barometer to what the majority of the voters say, and repeat it back just to get elected. […]
Read moreAbortion has never been legalized. No law has been repealed, nor modified to allow abortion. What happened 40 years ago was that a government institution crossed the boundaries of its legitimate authority and ordered – on the sole basis of the 14th Amendment – the states to disregard their state laws concerning the murder of unborn. Many have forgotten that […]
Read moreWhat’s the connection between the President of Uganda and the CEO of Hobby Lobby? First, the two men made a public stand for their Christian faith in relation to civil government: one as a government official who works to formulate public policy, the other as a victim of government policies specifically directed against his Christian conscience. Second, the two men […]
Read moreTwo news in the last week provided additional evidence to the validity of my conviction that socialism is not a problem anymore. First, the French actor Gérard Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship by President Putin. Why did Depardieu ask for it? Because he wanted to flee from the oppressive taxes the ruling Socialist Party in France wanted to impose on […]
Read moreFew Americans know about General Francisco Franco and his fascist regime in Spain. Even fewer know that its ideology came from the Falange, a political-ideological organization of well-meaning conservative lawyers and professors in Spain who wanted a conservative corporate state along the lines of Mussolini’s Italy – but still committed to the Catholic Church and the Christian faith – to […]
Read moreWith all the outrage about Boehner’s purge of true conservatives from the House committees, I was wondering one thing: Are these people serious? After everything Boehner has done and said, do they really expect Boehner to act in a way that is truly moral, ethical, decent, or, for that matter, conservative? Didn’t he prove at the Republican convention where he […]
Read moreNow let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. ~Wanda You’d think the Reformed and Evangelical leaders in the US would be highly interested when […]
Read moreI got some flak, of course, for criticizing Peter Leithart for his confused thoughts on capitalism and helping the poor. The most emotional of all responses told me, “Peter Leithart is not a statist, that’s ridiculous.” Others agreed that Leithart, by writing on capitalism and economy, is playing out of his league, but that the Federal Vision has nothing to […]
Read moreThat the Federal Vision movement had gotten itself into a theological dead end became obvious to me as early as 2005 when a friend of my handed me a few recent issues of Credenda/Agenda. While I was still in Eastern Europe in the late 1990s, I was getting some of the early issues, and they were a great source of […]
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