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Stay Calm, Says God All four interviewees said the very act of prayer (appropriately) transfers some anxiety onto the divinity. "The prayer itself is a form of power," says Ali. "We are not frustrated or losing our temper or losing our dignity or feeling lost, because we are close to God." Philip Yancey, the author of numerous Evangelical Christian books, including most recently Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?, cites Psalm 46, a prayer listing a number of catastrophes but concluding, "Be still and know that I am God." Addressing God, Yancey says, allows us to "bring our fears...
...hearing in Congress three weeks ago, we heard clear solutions to free students from a jungle of election laws. Push for polling places at universities. Make university-issued photo ID an acceptable form of identification. Clarify residency rules on the universal voter registration form. Make forms and information easily available online. And as for HAVA, stop letting procedural errors disenfranchise people on the eve of landmark elections. These are all just causes, but they will only earn legitimacy if more students speak...
...Late last week, and with little fanfare, Palin began claiming at rallies and in a radio interview that Obama had once opposed providing medical care for certain newborn babies, who later died. Without any clear context, Palin's statements seemed to suggest that Obama supported a form of infanticide...
...true to form, China has so far kept its cards close to its chest. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has pledged that his country would "join hands" with other nations in solving the crisis. But the ruling Communist Party held its Third Plenum in Beijing over the weekend. The meeting is usually an occasion for major policy decisions, but there was no word of what the top cadres' attitude to their country's role in the ongoing crisis might...
There hasn't been any talk of any of that in all the weekend excitement in Europe. And of course it's bad form to ask whether governments across the continent have learned any lessons from their appalling mismanagement of banks in the past. Far easier just to bash those ugly Americans, who caused all the problems in the first place...