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There is a danger in trusting that what your church says doctrinally, is the truth. But to paraphrase Shakespeare, the fault often lies in ourselves. We are inclined to misunderstand a thought that is not ours, or not put a way we like, or not built on data as we see it. Alone, we are poor...

Obama: Auto rule saves $8k 'a year.' Hmm. - POLITICO.com First, of course, there's the obvious problem -- it's $8000 over the life of the car. Further afield -- is the government's going to regulate higher gas efficiency into existence?

I'm not sure which installation I was watching, I came in on it after the start. But something really rang untrue to me. Apparently economists just "discovered" the optimism/pessimism influence on markets according to it. :doh: This has been known for centuries -- but it was a "panic"...

The national report on seasonally-adjusted unemployment: Employment Situation Summary The distribution shows unemployment rose in real terms in all categories of employment except, it fell 201k jobs in permanent unemployment and people on temporary layoff: Table A-11. Unemployed persons by...

Greece Ratings Cut by Moody's - Businessweek With this in the back of my mind, I wonder what's next. Chart: 'America's Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece' | The Weekly Standard

Chevrolet's Volt Sales Running Low, GM Idles the Line With sales lagging and inventories building, GM has decided to idle production of the Chevy Volt for five weeks. During that time, about 1,300 workers will temporarily be laid off.

Cost estimate for insurance aid jumps $111B; administration cites technical budget issues - The Washington Post Cost estimates for a key portion of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year’s budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on...

Obama Speech On High Gas Prices Contained Five Major Whoppers About Energy - Investors.com From just plain facts about available oil, through ridiculously wrong growth in alternative energy (itself a paltry sliver of total US energy production and use), through to being wrong about the...

Barack Obama on the Separation of Church & State: Support or Misinformation? Why Does Barack Obama Repeat Falsehoods from the Christian Right? Barack Obama does not appear to believe in a strict separation of church an state, which is a shame because opposition to church/state separation is a...

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac spent $100 million on former executives’ legal bills - The Washington Post Which inevitably means, taxpayers are paying for their execs' fraud by funding Fannie & Freddie, and then paying for the execs' defense.

Catholic bishops group denounces contraception compromise - CNN.com "Today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held...

Armageddon at the Strip Mall - By Kevin D. Williamson - Exchequer - National Review Online An ominous result of continuing restrictive limits on loans and the unsteady situation with banks. Your standard commercial loan goes for five years, at the end of which you either make a big balloon...

Obama unveils plan to streamline government - CNN.com And that's $3B over 10 years, in comparison with $1200B per year ... that would make it at least a $12000B problem.

I was searching articles and ran across it, which was definitely interesting to me. SCIENCE: Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges - IPS ipsnews.net "Each tree has about the same percentage of its biomass made up of carbon, but the fact that the American chestnut grows...

SCIENCE: Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges - IPS ipsnews.net "Each tree has about the same percentage of its biomass made up of carbon, but the fact that the American chestnut grows faster and larger means it stores more carbon in a shorter amount of time" -- Prof. Douglas...

I thought it was interesting. Stealing from Future to Continue Borrowing "The simple implication of Keynesian economics is that shifting aggregate demand from tomorrow to today means that employment and output will be higher today but must be commensurately lower tomorrow. Keynes suggested...

The more I've looked at Dordt, the more parallels & agreement I see between Dordt's view of reprobation, and Arminians' view of the saved. Is it just me seeing the parallels in argument, or is that parallel ... real? Anyone know if there's historicity to them? Some parallel thoughts (from...

Personally, I find this a very compelling question, though it's heavily studied and there are serious and bellicose advocates on all sides. I apologize if this turns out to attract some sharp or shallow responses attacking different sides of the argument. I'm not really interested in attacks...

I'll try to dredge up a citation or two, but I remember noticing that for John Murray's fine exegesis of "the Imputation of Adam's Sin", that Original Sin was concluded as "unmediated" -- that is, technically, "immediate". The explanation was rather interesting, too: that everyone who attempted...

I was reading Romans 11 and ran across this thought: is Paul describing the spread of the Gospel as being means of the hardening of Israel, or is Paul describing the attempt to establish their own righteousness as a result of the hardening of Israel: and thus pre-Christ?