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Harriet Miers is the whipping boy for Bush's mistakes Promptly at 8 a.m. Monday, President Bush announced his next appointee for the Supreme Court. By 9 a.m. the nominee had been denounced as a crony, too unknown and too lightweight. The dead-on-arrival pronouncements came not from the usual caustic acronyms of the left — NARAL, NOW, PFAW — but from the right. Conservative cannibalism had begun. The left enjoyed the entertainment. Why not? Politics often is NASCAR, and people hang around to see who crashes. The workaday Dale Earnhardts have their Jeff Gordon president in their sights. This is not...

The nomination of Harriet Miers is not in trouble, but it could be if we don’t fight for it from the bottom up. It could be in trouble because the President, at the top of our column, and those of us at the end of the column, “the man in the street conservatives” have been betrayed by the “conservative thinkers corps”. These “friends” of ours seem to be not really interested in securing another reliable conservative seat on the Court, if it means there will be no fight over the nomination. On the contrary, their lust for a fight whose...

I think a lot of Conservatives are mad about the Miers nommination because they wanted a fight with Liberals in the Senate and Judiciary Committee. Bush didn't give them one (I think they would get one if they started backing this nomminee but that's beside the point right now), so they are picking a fight with Bush. Call me a sell-out but I prefer a win. And that is what Miers is to conservatives. She's a gun-toting, anti-abortion evangelical Christian. She's everything the extreme Left wing has been having nightsweats about since Bush was first elected. All this brings to...

Hussain Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London's failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq," La Repubblica reported. "Especially those where women and children were being killed and exterminated by British and American soldiers...of widows, mothers and daughters that cry." It has become an article of faith that Britain was vulnerable to terror because of its politically correct antiracism. Yet Osman's comments suggest that what propelled at least some of the bombers was rage at what they saw as extreme...

WOMEN IN MINISTRY: A BIBLICAL VISION by Sharon Clark Pearson Wesleyan theological tradition historically has held a “high view” of Scripture; that is a part of the ethos of our community. In a church tradi­tion (with its community) that claims the integrity and authority of Scrip­ture, questions of practice are taken seriously. The question of whether God ordains and blesses women in the practice of ministry (both in func­tion and in office) is crucial to women because their personal and rela­tional lives and their participation in the church have been defined and regulated by the interpretation of Scripture (as the...

Expressions of shame and self-reproach have swept the Arab world as Muslims mourn the deaths of Russian schoolchildren - and voice unusually critical condemnations of the social ills blamed for breeding terrorism. The Arab world has watched with mounting disgust as a wave of civilian hostages - some of them Arabs and Muslims - were slaughtered by insurgents in Iraq. Last week, newspapers and satellite channels were dominated by pictures of bloodied, naked children in Beslan, north Ossetia, fleeing armed guerillas suspected to be Islamic rebels. Many Arabs found themselves in an increasingly common quandary: struggling to reconcile their sympathy...

"I am a Catholic businessman but I don't let the Church influence what I do at the office or in the boardroom;" but Jesus says (Mt 7:21), "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven." "I am a Catholic politician but I don't let my Catholicism impact on how I vote or what legislation I promote;" but Jesus says (Mt 7:26-27), "Everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who...

The Psychology of Junior Sniper Lee Malvo by Michael J. Hurd The defense psychiatrist for the D.C. sniper, Lee Malvo, claims that Malvo was unable to distinguish right from wrong. In other words, he didn't know that it was wrong to shoot innocent people at gas stations and department stores. Why not? Not because he was psychotic or schizophrenic, meaning completely out of touch with reality (in which case he would not have executed these shootings so competently). Instead, we're supposed to believe that he was so "pathologically loyal" to the elder sniper John Muhammad that he couldn't help but...

(snip)...The time spanning the senate careers of Al Gore and his father, and the vice presidency of the son, has encompassed the virtual destruction of the traditional American family for another reason as well. The liberal "morality" in the name of tolerance has redefined the cover of the Thanksgiving Saturday Evening Post to where it now would have to be illustrated by Dante instead of Norman Rockwell. The only stage the Democrats have left is to issue marriage certificates for human-animal liaisons....(snip)For The Full Article, Please Click Here.