Spiritual Labor and the Big Spill

Many Americans are proud of where they come from; this is no less true of the people of the Gulf Coast. Human interest stories have gripped viewers and readers following the news about the BP oil spill, which often highlights… Read More

America’s Destiny Must Be Freedom

Ralph Waldo Emerson described America as “the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.” Many Americans don’t feel that way as pessimism has replaced a once vibrant optimism about the future. Economic malaise, crippling… Read More

Memorial Day: On Hallowed Ground

When I lived in Hawaii my family visited Punchbowl National Cemetery to see where my grandfather’s high school buddy was buried. He was killed in the Pacific Theatre in World War II. As a child I had two thoughts that… Read More

Book Review: The Battle

At the start of Washington’s unprecedented federal interventionism into the private sector and on the heels of a Newsweek cover heralding that “We Are All Socialists Now,” there was considerable angst that free market defenders had forever lost the public.… Read More

Will Tea Parties Awaken America’s Moral Culture?

Tea parties are changing the face of political participation, but critics of the tea party movement point to these grassroots upstarts as “extreme,” “angry,” “racist” and even “seditious.” Yet The Christian Science Monitor reported that tea party rallies are so… Read More

Will America Help the Persecuted Copts of Egypt?

The violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt is becoming harder for the free world to ignore. This is true thanks to thousands of Copts who recently expressed their decades of frustration and anguish in street protests across the globe.… Read More

Haitian Suffering and American Compassion

The devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking. For most of us, it is far too easy to be distracted from the tremendous need right now in Haiti because of our own daily circumstances. In many ways I reacted similarly to Jordan… Read More

America’s Uncontrolled Debt and Spending is the Real ‘Waterloo’

Religious left icon Jim Wallis has popularized the maxim, “budgets are moral documents.” Yet the often repeated declaration is true in a way Wallis hasn’t envisioned, signaling bad news for Washington’s big spenders and those stuck footing the bill. Currently… Read More

The Tax Code: Business as Usual

Campaigning for president, Steve Forbes once remarked: “Some people in Washington say we can’t afford the tax cut [that comes from a flat tax]; well maybe we can no longer afford the politicians.” Forbes’s lack of success in his two… Read More

Speech Codes Limit Campus Freedom

Millions of high school seniors have started the process of deciding which colleges or universities to attend in the next academic year. Prospective students will take into consideration cost, academics, social life, and location. And while many students will also… Read More

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