Mega-churches have become a phenomenon in the cultural, spiritual and even political life of America. While much attention has been paid to the growth of these churches in the South and West, there has been little written about their growth in the northeast.
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The lessons of RAF colonial air control and Allied interdiction in World War II lay out a clear blueprint the US could use to disarm our implacable Islamic enemy, the mullah government of Iran. Sports columnist Alan Mascarenhas has concluded that by almost all criteria, women’s tennis is an inferior product. One wonders what John Wayne would think about the current notion that it is patriotic to restrain our armed forces from doing the job they volunteered to do: defend their country. The folks who live by accepted wisdom respond to Iran’s belligerence with a studied under-reaction as they hope for a “dialogue” with her “moderates.” Tony Blair's early success in reforming "Old Labour" led to his being the longest serving Labour Prime Minister in British history. Krugman is tarred with his own brush. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any loonier, along comes an email from Vermont. Interleague play is beneficial to the owners and some fans, but is creating artificial rivalries by ignoring real ones really good for the game? On President Bush's six-year watch, the illegal alien population increased at least by 7 million, a criminal negligence of the presidential duty to guard America's borders. Our fox leaders sing the praise of democracy, but they have been running an ethnokakistocratic kleptocorporatocracy. How else to explain that piece of treasonous twaddle that the upper chamber of [...] Those who oppose abortion on moral grounds often make the mistake of believing they must endorse the child-support state so women will not “choose” abortion. The group of 130 British physicians calling for a boycott of Israel Medical Association were unusually silent last week as their heroes in the struggle for self-determination in “occupied Palestine” seemed to self-destruct in wanton, seething anarchy. Mark Steyn on humor, theater, the process of writing, and the Montreal massacre. The commandant asks that stories tell themselves. He is overruled by those who rule over stories. The emasculation of the meaning of concepts is thriving in democracies as well as in dictatorships, and fact-denying and reality-obscuring tags can do more than to hide snake medicine in opaque bottles. To many on the Left, the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War transformed the Arabs and Palestinians into "underdogs" in the struggle against Zionism and imperialism. Aside from Ronald Reagan, Fred Thompson is the only credible Republican candidate in the last forty-two years who is a genuine and unqualified conservative. Initially created to inform the public and offer a quick and objective knowledge of events unfolding around them, the media now produces instead a generalized confusion, that benefits solely those who only prosper in such confusion. Those who make a profession out of complaining are in fact the most ferocious partisans of stagnation and the most adamant [...] Scheduled for release in August, Bella bucks the desire to provide a neat and painfully obvious Christian message in favor of a realism and moral complexity that may affect the lives of women struggling with abortion. Proposals to tax globalization's big winners reflect the yawning abyss between reality and the fairy tales of liberal-Progressive-socialism. Not every child custody struggle has a bad ending. Andrew Sullivan coined the “South Park Conservative” label to describe today’s politically incorrect adults, and Brian Anderson's book further describes this new group of conservatives. Trust is something that must be earned over time, not simply bestowed upon request — whether it involves your family life, or the adoption of a new national immigration policy. Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s recent release from prison prompts a couple of thoughts. For over thirty years there have been studies validating the deterrent effect of capital punishment. |
 
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