Real Clear Truth

We’ve heard a little of the crisis going on in Kenya, but this report from a Seventh Day Adventist university in Kenya really makes it clear how serious the situation is over there. It’s amazing to hear this kind of report from Kenya, which has been one of the more stable African [...]

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Have you ever thought where you would go in history if you had a time machine? If you could pick only one time to go back to — where you would be able to live and interact with people for say a week — what time in history would you go back to?
Previously, I might [...]

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This week’s column by conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager questions Senator Obama’s calls for unity as “not truly honest” and “childish”. Dishonest because those who call for “unity” typically mean they want everybody else to drop their own values and take up theirs. Childish because by contrast “mature [people] understand that decent people will differ [...]

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All the polls and most every analyst got it wrong. So few expected Hillary to win that even her own people didn’t appear to expect it. All the talk was of how she would soon “retool” her campaign.
But the critical moment came when Hillary herself saw the election slipping away from her. And in that [...]

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Yesterday, I talked a little about how our worldview can effect our politics, but our worldview also effects our daily lives. This is because our worldview shapes our attitudes and perspectives on life.
What is your attitude on life?
For me, I think Christians should have a fantastic perspective on life, if only because our God [...]

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If you read the DrudgeReport today, Matt Drudge makes it sound as if Hillary is ready to throw in the towel soon after she comes in an expected distant second place to Obama in the New Hampshire primary. Surprisingly, she has started to show a more emotional side to herself, that while endearing and finally [...]

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I’ll be posting photos I’ve taken from time to time. This is one from my recent trip to Hawaii.

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Consider this true story (detailed here — following quote is taken from here)…
Rosa was a 13-year old Mexican girl serving tables in a restaurant that heard from a friend that in the US she could make 10 times more doing the same kind of job. She was very excited about the potential for more money, [...]

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National Review Online points out this post by Ezra Klein:
I’ve been blessed to hear many great orations… But none achieve quite what Obama, at his best, creates.
Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if [...]

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Does Hillary’s humiliating third place finish in Iowa mean we should write her off?
Well, Hillary is an extremely professional candidate who has experience and important establishment support behind her. She has long been consider the Democratic candidate with the best chance to win the general election, and thus conventional wisdom would definitely NOT write Hillary [...]

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Many people have assumed that the subprime mortgage crisis only effects homeowners and the lending institutions who are hurting because of home foreclosures. But the subprime mortgage crisis is actually having a global impact on a much larger fanancial system then just lending institutions, or just the ones in trouble for making too many subprime [...]

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Well it’s Thursday morning and I may as well try my hand at predicting the outcome of the Iowa caucuses today. For the Democrats, it certainly looks like Obama will not only win, but win big (by over five percentage points). Hillary was the front runner for a long time — until people actually started [...]

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So often when we come to God we come asking Him for something. The Bible even encourages us to ask telling us that He is willing to supply all our needs (see Phil 4:19). And yet, because the most important command is to love God with all our hearts, some have said this implies that [...]

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I wrote this letter to a Christian that lives in the Netherlands who has been troubled by many of the policies that president Bush has pursued (especially in foreign affairs). I would love to hear what others think on this topic.
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Hi Andrew,
I understand how America’s foreign policy has troubled many in Europe (and elsewhere). One [...]

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