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Always Losing, Never Lost…

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Always Losing, Never Lost: Christianity in America
John Mark Reynolds
03.23.2009

Every few years somebody announces that Christianity in America is doomed. This time the excuse is a survey that does show a small decline in Christian self-identification, but that this decline has pretty much stopped. A one percent decline in just under a decade in Christian self-identification in a survey with a margin of error of half a percent is hailed as the latest piece of evidence.

When extremist secularists are not paranoid of an imminent American theocracy, whether because someone is singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic or saying the Pledge, they veer into triumphalism, because “all” the smart people or young people (take your pick) are going their way. Of course, religious gloom mongers benefit by overplaying the fears of traditional Christians and joining extreme secularists in seeing the end of the religious world as we have known it.

Pardon me, but Christians should feel fine…

The Rest of the Story:   Always Losing, Never Lost: Christianity in America | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow.

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Religious Liberties…

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Nondiscrimination Rules and Religious Associational Freedom
By Gregory S. Baylor & Timothy J. Tracey*

Governments are applying rules banning “discrimination”
on the basis of religion and “sexual orientation”
to religious groups with increasing frequency. As
interpreted by the courts, the extent to which the Constitution
protects the freedom of religious groups to associate around
shared religious commitments is not entirely settled. We believe,
however, that a proper regard for religious liberty should move
government to exempt religious organizations from such
nondiscrimination rules. When government subordinates
religious freedom to other public policy objectives, courts
should—and must—find violations of the Constitution.

The Rest of the Story: 20080428_ReLibBaylor.pdf (application/pdf Object).

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Bush Did It…

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Bush Did It

What a difference an election makes.

By Victor Davis Hanson

President Bush was ridiculed today by critics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility when he suggested that his administration no longer was incarcerating “unlawful combatants,” but was instead in the process of renaming them as mere “detainees.” The president also promised to close Guantanamo “within the year,” and added that he had assigned a “special task force” to look into the matter.

The Rest of the Story: Bush Did It by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.

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Morally Unserious in the Extreme…

Friday, March 13th, 2009

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush 43 executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President’s Council on Bioethics that, contrary to the Bush policy, federal funding should be extended to research on embryonic stem cell lines derived from discarded embryos in fertility clinics.

I declined to attend. Once you show your face at these things you become a tacit endorser of whatever they spring. My caution was vindicated.

The Rest of the Story:  RealClearPolitics – Articles – Morally Unserious in the Extreme.

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Personal branding in the age of Google

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

From Seth Godin:

A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.

Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person’s name.

The first search turned up a MySpace page. There was a picture of the applicant, drinking beer from a funnel. Under hobbies, the first entry was, “binge drinking.”

The second search turned up a personal blog (a good one, actually). The most recent entry said something like, “I am applying for some menial jobs that are below me, and I’m annoyed by it. I’ll certainly quit the minute I sell a few paintings.”

And the third? There were only six matches, and the sixth was from the local police department, indicating that the applicant had been arrested for shoplifting two years earlier.

Three for three.

Google never forgets.

Of course, you don’t have to be a drunk, a thief or a bitter failure for this to backfire. Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a long tail of good stuff and to always act as if you’re on Candid Camera, because you are.

via Seth’s Blog: Personal branding in the age of Google.

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