Society & Culture

Meanwhile, in local news…

U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ruled that Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman did not intentionally violate a federal court order prohibiting school officials from leading prayer in school when they offered a blessing at an athletic banquet.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090918/NEWS01/909180338



I have taught for quite some time now that the basic job of government is to protect the righteous, punish the evil, and to collect only enough revenue to execute this purpose - Rom 13.

I have often heard John Lofton on the American View say that it is not the job of government to feed, house or clothe anyone. To that, I add a loud amen.

In spite of all the really nice ideas that these celebrities put forth in this PSA, (could someone please remind me why we care what celebrities think?) I was seriously creeped out. It’s a bit too… worshipful.



http://paulmatzko.edublogs.org/2009/07/17/the-latino-evangelical-left/

During the 2008 presidential campaign, religion and politics wonks made much ado about very little over the emergence of the Evangelical Left. Certainly the white evangelical left exists (ie Tony Campolo), but despite all the hype over evangelical enchantment with Obama, the evangelical left did not have a break out year in 2008.

Here is a link to the article, quite interesting:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/facebook.racial.threat/index.html

It will be interesting the “television coverage” any of the networks give this story. This certainly reinforces the theory of “interlopers” who pretend to be one thing but turn out to be another in order to discredit the person or group they are opposing.



At the end of June, financier and swindler Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison. He had defrauded thousands of people of over $65 billion. Although many of his victims were relatively well-heeled, plenty of poor-to-middling investors lost their life savings. These bare facts reveal a tragedy, but one that is not particularly unique except for its record-breaking scale. A quick google news search shows that another dozen ponzi schemes have popped up in the news in just the past 24 hours.

Well,