This little girl must have been sooooo happy: President Bush’s motorcade made an unscheduled U-turn and stop – at a lemonade stand – while speeding to the airport after Friday’s fund-raiser in Ohio for Republican Sen. Mike DeWine. After all, how could the president pass by a young girl sporting pink sunglasses and a sign…

There is a new book out that helps to answer that question. It was written by a WTS Ph.D. graduate and associate professor of church history at Covenant Theological Seminary and is meant to be a popular treatment of the distinctives of Presbyterianism. I think I’m going to get a copy for my daughters since…

I have some sympathy for those who can’t work during our budget crisis, but this guy’s complaints are falling on deaf ears: Particularly livid was C. Robert McDevitt, president of Unite Here! Local 54, a union that represents 16,000 casino workers. There are approximately 45,000 full-time and part-time workers at the city’s 12 casinos, and,…

And we have an “obsession” with it too: “It’s a little strange, this obsession of the flag,” French author Bernard-Henri Levy wrote after traveling across the country. “Everywhere, in every form, flapping in the wind or on stickers, an epidemic of flags that has spread throughout the city,” Levy wrote in “American Vertigo” of the…

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