Aug 7, 2014 – And surprisingly enough (or not so surprising, when you really think about it), it’s a mix of good and bad news. … Political debates often focus on ways to get America “back on track.” But we need a better sense of where we’re at. … Like a national GPS, the Index of Culture and Opportunity shows us where we’re succeeding -- and where we’re failing.…

Aug 7, 2014 – And surprisingly enough (or not so surprising, when you really think about it), it’s a mix of good and bad news. … Political debates often focus on ways to get America “back on track.” But we need a better sense of where we’re at. … Like a national GPS, the Index of Culture and Opportunity shows us where we’re succeeding -- and where we’re failing.…

Aug 7, 2014 – Paul has been in the news recently for publicly denying that he once wanted to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, despite the fact in 2011 … pastor of a modest church in Des Moines, so if I can ask him questions like this that stump him, what happens when he gets out on a national … “I’ve met with Ted and listened to him, and he seems like the only guy who takes the stage without worrying about his political posturing…

Aug 7, 2014 – National leadership in Liberia took criticism early in the outbreak for slow response. … in the midst of a national health epidemic.” … Yahoo News reports that two men with visible symptoms begged for help in the streets of the Monrovia district of Clara Town.…

Aug 6, 2014 – The National Journal reports that the tax rate would be $8 per gigajoule of coal and a bit over $3 per gigajoule of natural gas. … That’s good news… So leave it to the austerity scolds at the International Monetary Fund to call for tax increases. … The good news is that the Spanish government may have learned from previous mistakes that tax hikes don’t work.…

Aug 5, 2014 – "Meet the Press" featured a segment this week that illustrates the planted liberal axioms that dominate our political culture. … Political director Chuck Todd set the stage: "New polling from NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Marist ... shows … Steven Teles, in an essay for National Affairs, calls this process "kludgeocracy," and while the word is funny, the results are not…

Aug 4, 2014 – A new national survey from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal confirms the findings of last week's enormous NYT/CBS/YouGov … The Left's favorite electoral data guru (except when he's not), Nate Silver, is admonishing the political class against settling on … But political time is nonlinear and a lot of waves are late-breaking, especially in midterm years.…

Aug 4, 2014 – Oklahoma, and Frank said that the President's Administration had lied to the American people, that would probably be pretty big news … I mean, they would have hired the guys that put on the 4th of July program at the National Mall in Washington, DC, with an encore by … Nowadays, of course, because of the pesky bloggers, cable news reporters, and Obama's having tapped Angela Merkel's cell phone most…

Aug 1, 2014 – Iraqi news services published contradictory reports about whether Prime Minister al-Maliki will run for a third term. … He identified the three candidates from the National Coalition as Ahmed Chalabi, Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Aadi Abdul-Mahdi. … The bomber targeted youths who were looking at a notice board for national youth service in Kano Polytechnic.…

Aug 1, 2014 – fundamentally specious, slippery and exaggerated claim that contains more holes than than a pound of Swiss cheese -- a defensive political … Another huge hole in Obama's self-serving claims has to do with the extraordinary lengths the White House, and its friends in the news … Its latest numbers put the national unemployment rate at 6.4 percent and the underemployment rate at 15 percent.…

Jul 31, 2014 – It was challenged by the National Association for the Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP) and the League of Women Voters. … Walker is in the fight for political life. It also didn’t help news media engaged in shoddy reporting and bias (shocker, right?)…

Jul 31, 2014 – "A new national Pew Research Center Poll shows why any Democrat on the ballot this November should care (about Obama's approval ratings … Not all of the policies became law, but as a political manifesto, it set the tone for Congress for much of the rest of the decade." … "I am deeply opposed to any consultant or any political staffer who talks to the news media about the campaign this fall being a referendum…

Jul 30, 2014 – In his speech, Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong-so, the Director of the General Political Bureau - the top military commissar - warned that … He praised Afghanistan for holding national elections under comprehensive security. … Israeli evacuation warnings to Palestinians tend to confirm the above news analysis.…

Jul 30, 2014 – In a different Forbes piece, Gerdes explains the National Environmental Policy Act. … “Perhaps America’s political and news leaders have given up on, or simply forgotten about, the unemployed and underemployed,” Gallup…

Jan 9, 2013 – A Russian national (and evangelical Christian) responded to me via social media with a rebuke: "Russia needs the gospel, not Americans … The situation would be a blow to national pride. And that's exactly the point. … This Russian evangelical's taunt seems to assume "the gospel" is something that doesn't address questions of national pride or public…

Jan 9, 2013 – language, as well as attacks on character and motives; -- Demonstrate humility and admit their limited understanding; -- Pray for political … Other participants included Peg Chemberlin, president, National Council of Churches; Julius Scruggs, president, National Baptist Convention … Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress ) and in your email (…

Jan 9, 2013 – Robert Gordon of the National Bureau of Economic Research, all have predicted anemic growth for the next several years. … The Japanese political class has averted a full-fledged deflationary cleansing of their economy by engaging in endless rounds of Keynesian … The good news is that, against this unpromising backdrop, American ingenuity and creativity will find ways to prosper—but it won’t…

Jan 7, 2013 – EDITOR'S NOTE: BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases … Today's BP Ledger contains items from: World News Service (2 items) University of the Cumberlands (2 items) Hardin-Simmons University … Reprinted by permission from World News Service. ********** Hobby Lobby punts free campus to foundation By Leigh Jones/World News Service…

Jan 7, 2013 – Wade and that a generational split within feminism hampers the formation of a solid political front. … Kissling also conceded the political harm the extremism of the abortion rights movement has caused. … We are a long way from a national consensus that could be reasonably and honestly described as pro-life.…

Jan 7, 2013 – Suffering the consequences of hypocrisy is usually reserved for public figures on the political right.  … The impeachment of Bill Clinton over a substantiated sexual affair seemed to take no more of a toll on his political capital than if … One year later, O’Donnell found herself having to defend the public news that her bodyguard had applied for a concealed weapons permit…

Jan 7, 2013 – You are sitting at dinner and television is on, broadcasting the news. … Our political “friends” in Washington welcomed in 2013 for us by turning off the TV, by throwing the unopened bills into the drawer … produced by the American economy, or about our trillion dollar-plus budget deficits, to which no end appears in sight, or about our national…

Jan 20, 2013 – How did the financial sector react to this news? … The deficit is magically gone, and now we can get to work paying down the national debt. … In contrast to the original work of two years ago the overall political picture is even grimmer.…

Jan 19, 2013 – Internal political update. … With luck, this deal will help stabilize political conditions. … Some Pakistani political commentators suspect that Qadri might have been testing the political reaction to the possibility of a more…

Jan 19, 2013 – These issues should be looming large on national economies. … This seemingly good news has tabled fears of an imminent crisis. … United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) under Nigel Farage, its dynamic leader, now has taken over from the Liberals as the third political…

Jan 18, 2013 – NATIONAL CATHEDRAL TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE -- Evangelical policy groups are not surprised by the Washington National Cathedral's … The move by the National Cathedral comes one month after the first same-sex wedding was performed at Cadet Chapel at the U.S. … The scholar at Alcorn State University in Mississippi also is an author and civil rights and political activist.…