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Daily Archives: June 5, 2013
They Should Be Bigger Challenges Than They Are!
Biblical scholar Pete Enns had a post this morning entitled 5 Main Challenges to Staying Christian, and moving forward anyway (part 1). He was basing his list on responses he got to a blog post that he wrote. The five … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Bible, Pluralism, Religion, Television
Tagged bible and science, biblical scholar, christian exclusivism, moral sensibilities, religious jew, television documentaries
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Ambrose’s Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 20
On pages 596-597 of Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972, Stephen Ambrose talks about the role of Richard Nixon’s wife, Pat, in his 1972 Presidential campaign. Pat Nixon was not comfortable giving speeches and having news conferences. She had … Continue reading
Bureaucracies and Working the System
For my write-up today on W.A. Swanberg’s Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist, a book about Socialist Norman Thomas, I’ll use as my starting-point something that Swanberg says on page 196: “Because [Thomas] became known as an easy mark, he constantly … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Political Philosophy, Politics, Ronald Reagan
Tagged bureaucratic maze, government, immigration authorities, Norman Thomas, Politics, public works projects, w a swanberg
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