See the preamble to this series.
An acquaintance of mine, Dr. Tyler F. Williams laments the lack of women bibliobloggers as part of a more general discussion of lack of minority writers in blogs in general. Well, if there was ever something less worthy to fret over. Blogs are free for the asking. Anyone can start and maintain a blog. Perhaps there are good reasons why men do biblioblogs and not women, but they have nothing to do with discrimination.
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Warner Todd Huston at Redstate has pointed out a Reuter’s article (screen shot) in which a member of the Taliban claims responsibility for the shootings yesterday in Binghamtom, New York. Reports suggested that a certain Jiverly Voong (apparently a Vietnamese name) is the shooter responsibe for the attack. Huston suggests that the article was politically motivated to undermine US efforts to fight terrorist with unmanned drones. Whatever be the case, Reuters has reported a rumor that promotes terrorist propoganda without even attempting to verify the story. This is a serious breach of journalistic ethics (or are those two terms an oxymoron?).
A few years ago I was teaching a course in church history in Bangui, and one of my students came to see me. He wanted to explain why he was studying at the seminary. He said to me in French, “Je fus militaire” (I was a soldier).
I remember this because of the simple past tense, which is literary and sounds funny in spoken French. He had been a rebel soldier and had spent years in the forest of Congo on the opposite side of the Ubangi river from Bangui; as a rebel, he could not return to Bangui until President Ange-Félix Patassé was deposed by François Bozizé, the current President. While in the forest, he said, they had little to eat and nothing to do. They started reading the Bible together and praying, and so the soldiers in this new church elected my student to come to seminary to become an army chaplain and to lead them as a pastor.
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Obama bows to his master
Erin Bonsteel via americanthinker.com
The Righteous Investor 
