Society & Culture

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146897#.Tkv—GHyRQg ]”Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has turned down U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s requests and will not apologize to Turkey for the IDF’s counter terrorist action…”

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/14/my-take-i-could-have-become-mi… ]”Over the years I began to doubt what I’d been taught — that we could find in the Bible the final answers to our questions about the minutiae of 21st century tax policy and the path to economic growth.”

“Bachmann has received the endorsement of more than 100 pastors and Christian leaders in the state in the past week alone. But Perry’s entry upsets her calculations.” NZH

http://online.worldmag.com/2011/08/10/showing-no-empathy/ “Children of boomers… have recorded the lowest rates of measured empathy in American history, according to new research.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240531119040061045765024016143086… ]”“The White House … has quietly altered its website to remove the references to Jerusalem being in ‘Israel,’ ” the New York Sun reports.” from WSJ Best of the Web

http://online.worldmag.com/2011/08/08/pulpits-and-politics/ “…Pulpit Freedom Sunday was established in 2008 with a handful of pastors, and expanded to include about 100 pastors last year. It’s a direct challenge to the principle of government restriction.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/274171/unbalanced-michael-tanner# ]History shows us that countries as divergent as Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Slovenia successfully reduced the size of their governments relative to their economies and lowered their debt burden substantially. They did so by controlling spending, not by raising taxes. ~Michael Tanner, National Review Online

http://online.worldmag.com/2011/08/05/unconstitutional-prayers/ “…which set of rules best affords Christianity room to flourish, while treating non-Christians as Christ would have them treated by His followers?”