In our current June 21-28 issue Peter Heinegg reviews Bonhoeffer Pastor Prophet Martyr Spy a new biography of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer written by Eric Metaxas Almost immediately after Hitler s ascension to power in 1933 Bonhoeffer then just 27 distinguished himse
On this day 18 years ago Dan Quayle famously misspelled potato leading the 12-year-old child whom he corrected to later comment to David Letterman I know he s not an idiot but he needs to study more Do you have to go to college to be vice president Garrison Keillor has the story at the bot
P op Quiz for new parents how much will it cost you to raise your newborn nbsp According to a government study released last week and reported on Planet Money NPR rsquo s finance blog ldquo a middle-income two-parent family will spend 222 360 on average to raise a baby born in 2009 rdq
It rsquo s the diplomatic strategic and fiscal boondoggle that keeps well taking I guess The war of choice in Iraq has already cost the United States a great many lives and vast sums that obviously could have been better spent say preparing for deep water oil mishaps developing an alternative
In for a penny in for a pound goes the old saying In the contemporary Washington fiscal universe perhaps the amounts should be revised In for a billion in for a trillion The point of the saying is that sometimes moderation is not the best strategy that once a plan has been adopted one c
It wasn t anything new exactly and a lot less than I had speculated he might do but Pope Benedict s heartfelt words this morning before a sea of 15 000 priests in white albs in St Peter s Square was still pretty powerful stuff Speaking at the close of the Year of Priests on the 150th anniversar