In looking over news from the past year, I was a bit discouraged to remember that Mr. Obama was reelected. But that wasn’t the only news from 2013. Here’s a roundup.
Our friend, The Very Right Holiness Prophet Dr. Hunter Baker, joins other friends of NRO to give the year’s highs and lows. “The fear, uncertainty, and loss experienced by Americans because of ill-conceived legislation and incompetent management, however, are unrelievedly negative.”
World Magazine has their 25 of their most read articles from 2013. They also offer this column on the year’s propaganda. Marvin Olasky notes:
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell stated in May, “IRS agents did nothing wrong.” Even in November Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post claimed, “This has been a really relatively scandal-free administration, first term and second term.” If that statement is relatively true, it’s only because most reporters haven’t looked.
Andrew McCarthy reviews American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character by Diane West.
Her purpose was to explore the Cold War paradox: Despite our seeming victory over the evil empire, we lost the same Cold War at home, to a lasting, corrosive effect, thanks to a “riddling, corruptive drive against what we now regard as ‘traditional’ morality, Enlightenment logic, and cultural memory.”
Collin Hansen on the best of 2013, including a piece recommending the legalization of murder.
“The Eight Kinds of Commenters in the Christian Blogosphere” as told by Dale Coulter(via Jared Wilson)
How to read the whole Bible in 2014
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