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Ruth Marcus on Balancing the Budget Debate
"March of the Deficit Pandas" -- It’s possible to simultaneously worry about the debt and believe in an active and compassionate role for government. In fact, it’s required.

Amy Goodman on Japan's Nuclear Crisis
"A Warning to the World" -- A reporter, describing the devastation of one city in Japan, wrote: “It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. I write these facts ... as a warning to the world.” The reporter was Wilfred Burchett, writing from Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 5, 1945.

William Pfaff on U.S. Isolation in Foreign Policy
"American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check" -- The United States, without really realizing, is now back to where it was, an isolated nation. But unlike in the past, this isolation is not deliberate.

Richard Reeves on God
"The Revenge of God" -- It was in the spring of 1966 that Time magazine shocked a lot of readers with a black cover with the white question: "Is God Dead?"

Eugene Robinson on Nukes
"No Such Thing as Risk-Free Nuclear Power" -- Nuclear power was beginning to look like a panacea—a way to lessen our dependence on oil, make our energy supply more self-sufficient and significantly mitigate global warming, all at the same time. Now it looks more like a bargain with the devil.

Islam Is a Punishment from God - a Christian View

Guess what? God uses our very blindness to punish us. We deny the truth, we continue habitually to sin gravely. Then bit by bit God removes his grace from us and we sink further into sin. And our very blindness allows us to invite into our very homes (our nations) the abomination which will work God's just punishment of us. Islam.

It is brilliant actually and poetic justice indeed.

In my opinion, Islam is God's punishment on a very sinful world, much as the Blessed Virgin prophesied at Fatima that [Communism] would be a punishment. God says to humanity: you want to deny my existence, theoretically and practically? You want to do your will and flout my will? Then, like the Hebrews of old, I am coming for you. Just as God openly admits in the Old Testament that he sends "the Assyrian" to punish his people for their sinfulness, so he has sent Islam to punish us for our sinfulness.
Comment by Aquinas on article by Roland Shirk, Jihad Watch

God and Axis Sally

God and Axis Sally

Since God is the All Powerful, it is reasonable to assume he calls the shots. If He so desired, He has the ability to destroy the Taliban the Al Qaeda and, indeed, all of the injustice and suffering on the planet.

Why doesn’t he?The Almighty did not create us as robots and puppets. He gave us free will and the capacity to choose between good and evil. Mother Teresa and Axis Sally shared space on the same planet. Each had a circle of friends. It was up to us to put Sally out of business and to propose Sainthood for Mother Teresa.

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