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Sinful humans with all our quirks will decide who controls the White House and Congress. But under a sovereign God, the election is no crapshoot 46 Hoosier spite
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The 2012 election will have a deep impact on charity healthcare clinics in the United States. But the uninsured, and the need for these clinics, we will always have with us
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A slew of marriage votes leads the list of ballot measures across the country in November ON THE COVER: illustration by richard cowdrey for world
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and claims: “There’s not a square inch of it that doesn’t belong to Me.” But don’t imagine for a minute that Kuyper might have followed up on that bold assertion with a wimpy exception about politics. You need only remind yourself that Kuyper took politics seriously enough to serve as the prime minister of the Netherlands from through . Did Kuyper talk about politics when he went to church? Did he campaign from the pulpit? Did he register voters during the Sunday school hour? Did he pass out bumper stickers and coffee during the fellowship hour? No, I doubt it. For this was also the deepthinking and wise man who popularized the idea of “sphere sovereignty,” spelling out in some detail God’s ordered creation of () family, () church, and () state— and warning against the intrusion of one sphere into the domain of the others. Kuyper obviously knew better than to take a good thing too far. So no, I don’t want my local church to look anything like a political party headquarters. I don’t think my church should typically end up endorsing specific candidates. But with the radical secularization of our culture, it seems increasingly right for our churches— as part of their teaching ministry—to engage in explicit instruction of their people. When the Bible says that “righteousness exalts a nation,” it seems minimally appropriate for churches and their ministers to help their people understand better in practical political terms what that righteousness looks like. What does “righteousness” mean when we think about tax rates, immigration, education, foreign policy, healthcare—and a hundred different issues? As a help toward this end, I warmly endorse a robust but balanced video series and study guide called The Political Animal, prepared and distributed by Summit Ministries in Colorado. Go to summitcourses.org for a free viewing of the first of six lectures by Dr. Jeff Myers, or to buy the whole set. I wish that The Political Animal had saturated the evangelical world throughout the current political campaign. But it’s never too late for true wisdom to have an appropriate impact. Let’s get on—without apology—with this teaching task. A
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I , the local church where my family and I have been members for the last years will host an overtly political gathering. Republicans will act out their Republican preferences, Democrats will show their Democratic commitments, and a few Libertarians will give evidence they’re still disciplined enough to place principle over pragmatics. All that intense political activity will happen on Tuesday, Nov. . Some years back, the local board of elections asked whether our church might be willing to provide space in our fellowship hall to serve as precinct headquarters every Election Day. Thankful for the freedoms we enjoy, and eager to show our citizenship, our officers gave happy assent. But I can assure you that what happens on Tuesday, Nov. , is about as political as it ever gets within the walls of my church. We’re pretty much like most evangelical congregations I know. We’re all vaguely aware that probably percent of us will be voting a straight Republican ticket. But most of us are also pretty discreet about discussing that in any formal way—and especially so about discussing it from the pulpit. There are both external and internal reasons for that traditional reluctance to let our churches become centers of overt political activity. External reasons include the fear that we might offend the IRS and maybe lose our tax-exempt status. Internal reasons swirl around concern that we as a church might blur the distinction between our worldly character and our much more important spiritual and heavenly allegiance. Those may appear at first blush to be legitimate concerns. But I can’t help wondering whether we’ve become too cautious and too worrisome—and in the process dulled our prophetic edge. So what if we protect our tax exemptions but find ourselves in a nation where our religious institutions are forced to ignore their consciences in the shaping of their corporate medical insurance programs? And why do we think it’s OK to be specific from our pulpits about delicate issues like sex, marriage, and money but have to tiptoe around the matter of politics? The great worldview thinker Abraham Kuyper is famous for noting that God looks down on His creation
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Think back on what the religious left was saying during the campaign. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mark Morford reported—not sarcastically but reverently— that “Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.” Morford was trying to explain Obama’s “appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world … powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.” Morford waxed on about the great number of “enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who’ve been intuitively blown away by Obama’s presence—not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence.” He then leaped to where no Christian would go: “Spiritually advanced people … identify Obama as a Lightworker … who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet.” Morford contrasted Obama with George W. Bush, who “laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp.” Bush, it seems, “was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression”—but Bush wasn’t all bad, because he “helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp. We are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.” Lo, Obama: The “vast amount of positive energy … is now effortlessly selforganizing around Obama’s candidacy.” Morford criticized skeptics who called Obama “a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness.” He mocked those who said the apotheosis of Obama was “a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores.” Nope. None of that. To those who said Obama will disappoint his acolytes, as others who claimed to be above politics have, Morford replied, “Not this time.” Nope: Obama is “the next step.” Republicans aren’t saying that about Mitt Romney, and few Democrats are saying that anymore about President Obama. The winning candidate will walk into the Oval Office with lowered expectations, and that’s helpful. A
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Minority report Protestant Americans must bid farewell to a dynamic they long enjoyed: majority status in the United States. A study published in October by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported that Protestants have dropped to 48 percent of the U.S. population. That doesn’t mean adults are converting to other religions. According to the Pew survey, it means that many aren’t claiming a religion at all. The study found 20 percent of Americans say they have no religious affiliation, a 5 percent increase in five years. Experts have predicted a Protestant minority for years, but the numbers suggest the country may have crossed the line long ago. In 2007, a Pew study reported that 60 percent of people who seldom or never
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Births bottom out With the economy in a rut, fewer Americans are having babies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the national birth rate in 2011 was just 63 births per 1,000 women—the lowest level ever measured. Both the rate and the number of babies born last year (3.95 million) dropped 1 percent from 2010. The decline was steepest among Hispanics, teens, and young women in their early 20s. (Births increased slightly for women older than 34.) The birthrate among teens between the ages of 15 and 19 has fallen 25 percent since 2007: More teen girls are remaining abstinent or using hormonal birth control, including the pill.
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Deadly shots Federal lawmakers called for broadening the power of the Food and Drug Administration in the wake of a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid injections. The injections, used to treat back and joint pain and produced in Massachusetts by the New England Compounding Center, were tainted by a fungus commonly found in dirt and grass. By Oct. 15 the shots had sickened 212 and killed 15 in 12 states. Health officials said nearly 14,000 people might have received the tainted injections, putting them at risk for meningitis, a potentially fatal infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Oversight of compounding pharmacies like the NECC currently falls to states. Compounding pharmacies create patient-specific formulations of drugs and aren’t subject to FDA requirements that apply to large-scale drug manufacturers. Massachusetts officials said NECC had violated its license by marketing drugs like a manufacturer.
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While Democratic politicians accused conservatives of politicizing the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, Pat Smith talked about the costs that transcend political concerns: the life of her son. Sean Smith, 34, was one of four Americans killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack. Armed men also killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, both former Navy SEALs. A month after the attack, Pat Smith told CNN her grief had deepened as information from White House officials grew scant: “I told them, ‘Please don’t give me any baloney that comes with this political stuff. … Just tell me the truth.” So far, Smith said, “They haven’t told me anything. They’re still studying it. And the things that they are telling me are outright lies.” Discovering the truth about what happened in Libya took a new turn by mid-October, as a hidden facts: A Senate committee announced it would Libyan man investigate the assault. That news came a week outside the after a congressional hearing revealed that the closed U.S. State Department had turned down requests consulate in Benghazi. for additional security in Libya before the Sept. 11 attack. Vice President Joe Biden contradicted that testimony a day later in the vice presidential debate, saying: “We did not know that they wanted more security there.” Meanwhile, a State Department official told reporters the agency didn’t believe that the attacks were the result of protests against an anti-Islamic video—a narrative the White House propagated for a week before admitting it was a terrorist attack. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to deflect blame from the White House on Oct. 15 by saying that the State Department handles security at diplomatic posts: “I take responsibility.” But the widening scandal could hound President Barack Obama, as lawmakers—and mothers like Pat Smith—demand answers.
Thousands of Pakistanis held candlelight prayer vigils and gathered to protest following the Taliban shooting of Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old whose outspoken support of girls’ education made her an international symbol for Pakistani progressivism. Two gunmen stopped Malala’s school bus Oct. 9 and shot the girl in the head, also injuring two female classmates. Doctors in Pakistan performed surgery to remove a bullet before sending Malala to the United Kingdom for continued treatment. Although doctors were hopeful she would recover from the assassination attempt, a Taliban spokesman said the group still intended to kill both Malala and her father, a girls’ school headmaster. Malala earned the hatred of the Taliban after she chronicled life in her hometown of Mingora, in northern Pakistan’s Swat Valley, for the BBC’s Urdu-language website in 2009, when the Taliban took control of Swat and destroyed dozens of schoolhouses. She gave numerous interviews with Pakistani and Western journalists, criticizing Taliban militants as “barbarians” who had “destroyed the peace of Swat.” Some political leaders in Pakistan are reluctant to criticize the Taliban movement, but observers speculate Malala’s shooting might rally public opinion against extremism.
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About 2,000 people gathered on Sept. 28 at First Baptist North in Spartanburg, S.C., to hear high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives. Among the speakers: Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell, and—keynote speaker for the evening—best-selling author, filmmaker, and Christian college president Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée. Finally, near 11 p.m., event organizer Tony Beam escorted D’Souza and Joseph to the nearby Comfort Suites. Beam noted that they checked in together and were apparently sharing a room for the night in the sold-out hotel. The next morning, around 6 a.m., Beam arrived back at the hotel and called up to D’Souza’s room. “We’ll be down in 10 minutes,” D’Souza told Beam. D’Souza and Joseph came down together, and Beam took them to the airport. The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D’Souza’s behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D’Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said “nothing happened.” When I called D’Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when
he had filed for divorce from his wife Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.” According to San Diego County (Calif.) Superior Court records, D’Souza filed for divorce only on Oct. 4, the day I spoke with him. Under California law, that starts the clock on a six-month waiting period for divorce. D’Souza on Oct. 4 told me his marriage was “over,” said he “is sure Denise is the one for me,” and said he had “done nothing wrong.”
The episode is a strange twist in D’Souza’s otherwise meteoric rise in the evangelical world. He developed a reputation among evangelicals with a string of best-sellers, including The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which spawned a movie, Obama: 2016, which has now grossed more than $30 million. He broke into the Christian conference and megachurch market in 2007 with the release of a book that year, What’s So Great About Christianity. D’Souza now receives speaking fees sometimes in excess of $10,000 from Christian groups, putting him in the top tier of Christian speakers. In 2010 he became president of The King’s College, New York City, which is supported by Campus Crusade for Christ, now called Cru. At that time he moved from California to New York, with his wife staying in California. D’Souza said King’s board chairman Andy Mills has known about his marital trouble for at least two years. Mills confirmed that through a spokesman, Mark DeMoss, who added that Mills was “hopeful about restoration and both he [D’Souza] and Andy were praying to that end.” DeMoss said The King’s College board met by conference call to begin “looking into the situation.” D’Souza participated in a portion of that call, DeMoss said. Following that meeting, on Oct. 15, D’Souza wrote in a text message to me: “I have decided to s uspend the engagement.” The King’s board planned further discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 17 and 18, DeMoss said. A
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Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., a pro-life doctor, asked a woman he was having an affair with to get an abortion over years ago, according to a phone transcript The Huffington Post unearthed recently. “You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one,” DesJarlais said to the woman, who was a patient of his, according to the transcript. “If we need to go to Atlanta, or whatever, to get this solved and get it over with so we can get on with our lives, then let’s do it.” DesJarlais didn’t deny the conversation, but said the woman turned out not to be pregnant and thus did not have an abortion. He was married at the time, but going through divorce proceedings. The congressman won a seat from a Democrat in , and for now his current Democratic challenger, state Sen. Eric Stewart, is well behind him in polls.
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F G J, the upcoming presidential elections are like a choice between two beverages: Coke and Pepsi. Johnson—the Libertarian Party candidate—proposes himself as an alternative: Perrier. Johnson—a former two-term New Mexico governor—isn’t the only alternative in the Nov. presidential contest. Former Virginia congressman Virgil Goode—the Constitution Party candidate—is set to appear on the ballot in at least states. And Jill Stein—a physician from Massachusetts with no governing experience—heads the Green Party ticket. Johnson and Goode are closest in political philosophies: Both are former Republicans who support massive cuts in federal spending. Goode says he’d immediately cut trillion in discretionary spending. Johnson calls for similar measures, but the two candidates differ dramatically on social issues: Johnson supports samesex “marriage” and abortion; Goode opposes both. Both candidates have registered small numbers in recent polls, but small numbers in a tight election could make a big difference. For example, an Oct. poll showed Johnson with percent of the votes in Virginia—one of the swing states that may help decide the election. The same poll showed President Obama with a -point lead over Gov. Romney in the state. (Goode had percent of the vote.) If Romney advocates worry that a third-party candidate could pull votes from the GOP nominee, their concerns make sense: Green Party candidate Ralph Nader won percent of the votes in the presidential election. Some political experts believe that was enough to pull significant votes from Vice President Al Gore, who lost the razor-thin election. —For more on the Nov. election, see the cover story beginning on p.
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Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter died Oct. at age of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The moderate but often polarizing Specter served on the Republican side of the aisle for most of his years as Pennsylvania’s longest-serving U.S. senator. Crossing party lines, he voted in for President Barack Obama’s healthcare and economic stimulus bills. The resulting Republican fury spurred him to switch parties, but he went on to lose the Democratic primary, while his former seat stayed in Republican hands. Although he never authored a piece of landmark legislation, he was prominent in Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including derailing Judge Robert H. Bork’s nomination in but four years later wooing conservatives with his support for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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SENTENCED A Pennsylvania judge on Oct. sentenced former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, , to between and years in prison for sexually abusing boys. All of the victims came from disadvantaged homes and were boys he was supposed to be helping through his charity for troubled youth, The Second Mile. Sandusky, who during the hearing remained unrepentant as he professed innocence in a rambling,
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CONVICTED Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele, , will spend months under house arrest after a Vatican court convicted him Oct. of stealing the pope’s personal papers and then leaking them to the media. Throughout the trial, Gabriele insisted his actions were intended to expose allegations of corruption within the church: “I feel guilty of having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would.” Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said a papal pardon is likely.
PREACHED A record , U.S. pastors participated in the fifth annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Oct. by speaking in their sermons about political candidates and their positions on biblical issues. Sponsored by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the initiative is meant to challenge a IRS rule prohibiting tax-exempt organizations like churches from making political endorsements. Participating clergy this year came from both sides of the political aisle. At Living Stones Church in Crown Point, Ind., senior pastor Ron Johnson Jr. called congregants to change the leadership of the White House and condemned the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate as “tyrannical.”
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DIED Barbara Hodel, who along with her husband Don supported and served numerous Christian groups including the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, and Patrick Henry College, died Oct. at age . The Hodels became Christians following the suicide of their teenage son, Philip, and used their story to encourage other families coping with the loss of loved ones to suicide. In Barbara suffered a fall that left her paralyzed.
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FELIX BAUMGARTNER, a -year-old daredevil who on Oct. broke world records for the highest and fastest skydive, jumping into thin atmosphere at , feet and accelerating to . mph, surpassing the speed of sound. On breaking the sound barrier, Baumgartner said: “It’s like swimming without touching the water.”
‘Among people who have been in the military, he’s beyond what a movie star would be.’ Retired Army Col. GREG CAMP on retired Command Sgt. Maj. Basil L. Plumley, who died Oct. at age . Plumley fought in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, making five combat parachute jumps. He served in the th Cavalry Regiment during the Battle of Ia Drang in , which became the basis for the movie We Were Soldiers. Sam Elliott portrayed Plumley.
‘If Ms. McCaskill does oppose gay marriage, then she holds the same view that President Obama did, at least publicly, until five months ago. Would he have been unfit to serve as a diversity officer at Gallaudet?’ An editorial in the WASHINGTON POST after Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf, placed its chief diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, on paid leave after she signed a petition for a referendum vote on Maryland’s new same-sex “marriage” law. The school on Oct. indicated it would reinstate her.
$46.9 million The amount of licensing income generated for Sesame Workshop by STREET–themed merchandise SESAME STREET in . Sesame Street became an issue in the presidential campaign when GOP nominee Mitt Romney said he would eliminate federal funding for PBS and the Obama campaign said such a move would threaten Big Bird.
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‘First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant.’ DANIEL HANNAN, a lawmaker from Britain’s Conservative Party, on the European Union winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Scottish authorities are hoping Stephen Gough will hike across the border to England and not come back. The so-called Naked Rambler refuses to put on clothes while he wanders Scotland’s Highlands and Lowlands, despite indecency convictions and jail sentences. For the past six years, Scottish authorities have locked up Gough for hiking in the buff. He told reporters earlier this year that he marches in the nude to protest the laws that forbid him to do so—but since he’s spent most of the last few years locked up on nudity charges, Scottish authorities are beginning to see him less as a nuisance and more as an expensive problem. According to the government, it costs taxpayers nearly , to house a prisoner for a year. After his last jail stint, Gough was spotted on Oct. walking south toward England, where he hopes to visit his family.
Talk about timing: Employees at a Chagrin Falls, Ohio, bank narrowly avoided a bank robbery because the teller had to go to the bathroom. A would-be bank robber entered the Huntington Bank on Sept. just after the teller on duty locked her cash drawer and excused herself to the restroom. The robber demanded cash from the bank employee he met at the teller’s window, but the employee told him the cash drawer was locked and he’d have to wait. Flummoxed by the delay, the man fled on foot.
With around billion worth of Facebook stock, it’s hard to imagine how company founder Mark Zuckerberg spends all his money. But one thing’s certain: He’s not spending it on clothes. In an Oct. interview with the Today show, the -year-old Facebook CEO admitted he generally wears the same type of solid gray T-shirt every day. Asked by NBC how many of the shirts he owns, Zuckerberg said about .
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Four months after an unusual Panera restaurant opened in their neighborhood, some residents in the Lakeview area of Chicago are beginning to complain. The restaurant in question is a Panera Cares, a version of the Panera chain that allows customers to pay whatever they can for their meals—and if a customer has no money, the meal is free. Some neighbors aren’t buying into the free lunch, and one local woman complained to CBS Chicago that the pay-whatyou-can meals were attracting homeless people to her neighborhood. Panera operates four such restaurants—Chicago, Portland, Detroit, and St. Louis areas—as a nationwide pilot program to test the business model.
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Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill, Ore., who grows giant pumpkins, transported via pickup his ,-pound pumpkin more than miles south to the Oct. World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The nine-hour drive netted the -year-old grower (below, with his son) first prize at the contest: He won ,.
A walk along a beach in Florida led to an eye-popping discovery. An enormous blue eyeball reportedly washed up onto Pompano Beach in South Florida, causing an internet sensation when the man who found it took it to state wildlife officials. Researchers say the eyeball, which is the size of a softball, is probably from a deep sea squid or a large swordfish. Heather Bracken-Grissom, a marine science professor at Florida International University, told the Associated Press that the find has sparked public curiosity: “Something like this gets the public very excited about the mysterious realm of the ocean.”
One Hastings, Minn., man has either a shallow understanding of the law or a shallow conscience. After finding an envelope filled with , cash, the anonymous finder turned the envelope in to police, but not before skimming from the sum. He included a note indicating that the finder was short on cash and “really needed” the . Police in Hastings, who are attempting to find the rightful owner, welcomed the partial return of the money, but noted that it’s illegal to help yourself to a reward.
Lawyer Claude Kicklighter has probably had some difficult clients before, but they were puppies compared to his latest. A court official in Effingham County, Ga., said on Oct. that a judge had appointed Kicklighter to represent a pit bull that the county wants to euthanize. The pit bull, named Kno, had attacked a -year-old child, after which his owner turned him over to the county. “All I can tell you is that the judge appointed me,” Kicklighter told the Reuters news service. “I really don’t know what the issues are.” A hearing later in October will determine whether Kno should live or die.
A woman who caused a stir by riding a manatee in Pinellas County, Fla., turned herself in to police on Oct. : She said she wasn’t aware that riding the endangered species is against the law. Witnesses saw and photographed -year-old Ana Gutierrez riding a sea cow in the waters of Fort De Soto Park on Sept. , and an image of her manatee joy ride went viral on the internet. The misdemeanor charge of harming or disturbing a manatee could net Gutierrez a -day maximum jail sentence and a maximum penalty.
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Electronic delusion
Teenagers who spend too much time online never really learn about themselves
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disfigured in someone’s mind, myself recast as a stain on humanity. What causes this? Overheated politics? Not enough fresh air? Narcissism, some experts say. I’m not so sure. Narcissism, or self-centeredness, is an oversized view of one’s own importance. But kids who send ashes and death threats, and political junkies who imagine their opponents as demons in disguise, may have gone beyond self-centeredness. They may have no real sense of themselves at all. Adolescence is a time of self-questioning and self-testing, looking outside your immediate sphere for clues about the person you really are. Teens shape their identity the same way babies learn to talk and preschoolers learn proper behavior: They interact with others and respond to feedback, both positive and negative. They encounter their limits. That’s still true for most kids, but I hear rumors of a subset whose clues are mediated almost entirely through electronics. Online, they find only what they’re looking for and reinforce it daily. The father of Traynor’s troll described his son as tech-dependent, always updating or tweeting, drawn to fantasy and conspiracy websites. If one real-world friend said, “Uh … not cool, dude” (or the Irish equivalent), Traynor might have been spared some grief. Interaction reveals us, to ourselves most of all. This is never clearer than in the Psalms of Lament, where the writer remonstrates with God. In Psalm , for example, almost every line includes a personal pronoun—“I take refuge,” “I have leaned,” “Forsake me not.” What could be more “narcissistic” than imagining the Creator of the universe as interested in me, even to taking me “from my mother’s womb”? If such a thing can be, this is holy narcissism. The psalmist is centering in God, clashing with God, crying out to God, seeking feedback from God. His self is rock-solid, because it’s grounded on a rock. For all his troubles, he’ll be OK. For those who lose themselves in the limitless affirmation of cyberspace, I’m not so sure. A
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O , Dublin-based Leo Traynor describes himself as a “writer, crossword compiler, political consultant and facilitator.” That’s not a combination to attract random hatred, but his post titled “Meeting a Troll,” reprinted last month in The Guardian and other British papers, detailed how Traynor’s Twitter account became a sludge pile of abusive tweets—and worse. Beginning in , he received, blocked, and reported “followers” who bombarded him with anti-Semitic comments too foul to repeat. When his wife innocently revealed their relationship on her own Twitter account, she received the same treatment. Efforts to dismiss it as the activity of a few deluded nut-cases failed last summer, when Traynor received a package at his home address. Opening it, he found a container of ashes with a note: “Say hello to your relatives from Auschwitz.” Death threats followed, made more chilling by the obvious fact that his tormenter knew where he lived. The police said they could do nothing, but a friend—an IT expert—offered to track the troll using legal but littleknown technology. The process pinpointed three IP addresses in Ireland, two of them public wifi locations. The third was the home of a friend, and the troll had to be that friend’s -year-old son. “I was gobsmacked,” writes Traynor. He called his friend with the shocking discovery, and together they cooked up a plan. The story ends well: Traynor met the perpetrator and his parents at a restaurant, where the kid, once confronted with the real-world consequences of his deeds, burst into tears and confessed. When asked why, he sobbed, “I don’t know. I’m sorry. It was like a game thing.” The tale has received a lot of internet play, with other bloggers recalling their own experiences with strangers who post vile, personal comments. Culprits, asked why, were sometimes startled and apologetic: “I didn’t think you’d actually read it. Please forgive me.” In most cases, more abuse. It’s happened to me a couple of times: my stated opinion swollen and
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chanting in Arabic. Standing next to a window inside the building, one diplomat asks another, “That glass is bulletproof right?” The other responds, “It’s supposed to be, but I don’t think it’s ever been tested.” Then—possibly as part of a premeditated attack, possibly spurred on by the frenzy of protest, it’s too soon to tell—a group of militants leap the fence and descend on the compound, TRIBUTE: Affleck (center) with secluded attachés.
screaming mantras of revenge against “The Great Satan.” As they crowbar their way into side entrances, the camera jumps from room to room showing U.S. operatives using the last seconds before they’re blindfolded and dragged into the streets to destroy sensitive information. Given that this outpost sits in known hostile territory, we’re shocked to see just how minimal its security is. What I’ve just described isn’t news footage from the
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Kevin James’ Here Comes the Boom (rated PG) has flashes of insight and well-paced humor as it tells the story of one man’s transformation from lazy drudge to unlikely hero. James (King of Queens) co-wrote, produced, and stars in the film as Scott Voss, a high-school biology teacher who wrestled in college and was teacher of the year—10 years ago. Now he’s chronically late to class: When he arrives, sometimes through the window, he puts his feet on the desk and reads the sports page. This appalling laziness continues when Voss schleps his disciplinary bus duty onto the kindly orchestra teacher Marty (Henry Winkler of Happy Days fame). Voss manages to remain well-liked, but he leaves behind his lovable slob posture when he learns the school is cutting the music program and Marty’s job: In a paroxysm of good will, Voss volunteers to raise the $48,000 necessary to keep the orchestra and Marty. First, Voss tries to raise money by teaching an American government class to hopeful U.S. citizens, including a former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter named Niko. When Niko inadvertently exposes Voss to the lucrative MMA fight circuit, he figures MMA fighting will be a quick way to raise money for Marty. Voss learns it’s quick, but it’s not easy, For the weekend of oct. 12-14 and gets his fair according to Box Office Mojo share of pummelcautions: Quantity of sexual (S), violent ing. The story is (V), and foul-language (L) content on a 0-10 fairly predictable scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com from that point, S V L but Voss’ humor1̀ Taken 2 PG-13..............................3 7 4 ous pratfalls and 2̀ Argo* R...........................................3 6 7 Marty’s cheesy 3̀ Sinister R......................................3 8 4 demeanor make 4̀ Hotel Transylvania PG...........2 4 2 for a hilariously 5̀ Here Comes the Boom* PG...2 5 4 inspiring story of 6̀ Pitch Perfect PG-13..................5 3 4 one man’s unex7̀ Frankenweenie* PG................ 1 4 2 pected rise to 8̀ Looper* R..................................... 7 8 7 hero-hood. 9̀ Seven Psychopaths R........... 7 9 10
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anxiety of current headlines. As we see the scenes of terror unfold, we can’t help but mentally paste the images of Ambassador Stevens and the three other Americans who died in Libya last month onto the actors’ faces. Yet with the exception of the minor audio clip of Jimmy Carter that runs over the final credits, Argo is surprisingly apolitical. Affleck isn’t interested in assigning blame, but in the much more worthy goal of giving credit. Too often, our intelligence officers serve as lightning rods for criticism. Every failure of foreign policy is laid at their doorstep, yet the very nature of their nameless, faceless work means the public can never know the full extent of their victories. With a tale that is smart, riveting, yet also surprisingly personal and funny, Affleck manages to give the CIA the applause it so richly deserves but so rarely receives. In this way, Argo serves not only as an expertly wrought piece of entertainment but also an act of patriotic tribute. (It should be noted that this tribute comes with a fairly constant peppering of R-rated language. Though, to be fair, the film’s oft-repeated F-bomb catchphrase was not screenwriter Chris Terrio’s invention. It was the actual tagline Mendez and his co-conspirators gave his mission.) There’s little doubt that Affleck will get Oscar attention for Argo. There’s even less doubt that, for the rare feat of making a political movie Americans across the ideological spectrum can enjoy, he deserves it. A
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2012 attacks on our consulate in Benghazi or our embassy in Egypt but the opening scene from Ben Affleck’s latest film, Argo, a 1970s-era spy thriller that would probably be criticized for being too wild, too implausible, too Hollywood, if it all hadn’t really happened. Based on the book Master of Disguise by former CIA “exfiltration specialist” Tony Mendez (Affleck), Argo relates the true, utterly incredible series of events that led to the rescue of six American diplomats in the middle of the Iran hostage crisis. During the tumult of the embassy takeover, six midto low-level attachés manage to escape through a back door and make it to the Canadian embassy. Mendez’s plan to extract them (the best bad idea the CIA has, his boss explains) is to pose as a Canadian film producer whose crew is scouting locations for his sci-fi movie, “Argo.” To make the cover believable, Mendez requires not only the cooperation of higher-ups at the State Department, but also a couple of allies in Tinsel Town. One is John Chambers, the Oscar-winning make-up artist for Planet of the Apes, (John Goodman), the other is industry old-timer Lester Siegel (a composite character hilariously played by Alan Arkin). There’s no way Affleck could have known when he began filming just how timely his story would prove. What would have simply been a gripping history lesson two months ago, now has the immediacy and
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U.S. Downton Abbey might be surprised to learn that another BBC series, Call the Midwife, eclipsed it last spring in the U.K. and is now on PBS. The series is based on the memoir of a professed Christian, Jenny Lee Worth (played by Jessica Raine), who served as a midwife among Londoners of the East End during the s. That was a time before birth-control pills, when big families brought cobblestone streets to boisterous life. Episode shows how Jenny comes to live among Anglican nuns: Not a woman of faith herself, but willing to serve in their poverty-stricken community, she meets nurses with high ideals and idiosyncratic personalities, a winsome handyman, and others. We follow Jenny into the lives of fishmongers, prostitutes, and sailors alike, as she brings on her rounds not only tools for safe labor and delivery but respect for the dignity of those she lovingly helps. Sadly, love in the abstract leads to moral confusion, with premarital sex, drunkenness, and even incest legitimized. In contrast, while Worth’s memoir has its problems, it reached toward a Love that can bend to help without tearing the moral fabric of life. As one sister explains, God’s grace gives her love for the unlovely, not blindness to their faults. Still, the BBC drama’s witty dialogue, colorful stories, and dramatic (but not too graphic) scenes of newborns gasping for breath have already won many admirers. For pro-life Christians, Call the Midwife’s respect for people of faith and unflinching portrayal of the horrors of abortion may make it especially relevant.
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T U S financial straits and the federal government steps in to take economic control for the common good. Sound familiar? No, this is not a movie about the government takeover of General Motors: It’s the second installment of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged hitting the big screen. Set five years in the future, gas prices soar past per gallon, unemployment is at percent, and protesters— the “. percent”—demonize business owners (otherwise known as job creators) and demand fairness. The government responds with a “Fair Share Law” meant to level the playing field, but when it fails to produce the desired results, the government declares a state of emergency and moves in to take unprecedented control of everything economic, including all patent rights. Dagny Taggart (Samantha Mathis, above) is a railroad executive trying to hold everything together and develop a limitless source of energy without using fossil fuels. She is joined by Hank Reardon (Jason Beghe), her lover and the man who created a lightweight metal that transformed the new railroad age. Rand’s novel, despite its atheistic ideology, has enraptured those looking for a full-throated defense of capitalism, but the story— rated PG- for mild language and milder sexuality—does not translate well to the big screen. With an all-new cast and crew the film represents an improvement over the first installment, which tanked when released last year, but economic lectures—even if you agree with them—grow tiresome. When the plot finally gets interesting, the film ends.
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Not classy
Will America’s new upper class embrace the alternative to coming apart? BY MARVIN OLASKY
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importance of the core. A half century ago America’s leaders typically attended church regularly and had a better sense of what was unseemly, but that sense became unsustainable as mainline Protestantism turned into a hollow, doughnut faith. When people make lifestyle decisions without the sense of humility and modesty engendered by belief in an almighty God, unseemliness is the result. The question now is whether we can recover from unseemliness—and if so, how? History attests that much is possible: Look at how William Wilberforce and others two centuries ago led the way for a British upper-class comeback. (A leading cause of the American Revolution was the patriots’ sense that London had fallen into decadence.) But how likely is an American comeback? It all depends on what we believe. Murray hopes for “a civic Great Awakening among the new upper class … America’s new upper class must take a close look at the way they are living their lives … and then think about ways to change. … A civil Great Awakening among the new upper class can arise in part from the renewed understanding that it can be pleasant to lead a glossy life, but it is ultimately more rewarding—and more fun—to lead a textured life, and to be in the midst of others who are leading textured lives.” A
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much are you paying him?” Response: “.” Question: “A week?” Response: “A month.” The amazed official exclaims: “That’s not bad. Not bad.” (Multiply by . to get the equivalent today: , per year. Still a “not bad” demonstration of guts.) Charles Murray says many current leaders lack not only Yeager’s bravery but his sense of what is seemly and what is not. Murray adds, “If you’re looking for egregious examples of unseemliness, you can do no better than look at contemporary American government.” Yes, graft is always hard to stop, but “The pot has grown, with hundreds of billions of dollars of goodies now up for grabs. … Washington is in a new Gilded Age of influence peddling that dwarfs anything that has come before.” What should be done? The answer is not new laws, because “Unseemliness is a symptom of the collapse of codes of behavior that depend not on laws and regulations, but upon shared understandings regarding the fitness of things, and upon an allegiance to behave in accordance with those shared understandings. Unseemliness is another symptom of hollowness at the core.” Murray does not exhibit a biblical understanding, but he knows the
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“U.” That’s a key word in Charles Murray’s Coming Apart (Crown Forum, ) and one we need in our vocabulary regardless of current election outcomes. Murray provides examples: “Unseemliness is television producer Aaron Spelling building a house of , square feet and rooms. Unseemliness is Henry McKinnell, the CEO of Pfizer, getting a million golden parachute and an million pension after a tenure that saw Pfizer’s share price plunge.” Unseemliness is not the same as illegality. Spelling used his own money. McKinnell received pay in line with the sweet contract he had signed. Also, if we complain about unseemliness we should look into our own motivation and ask whether envy is playing a part. Nevertheless, “unseemly” is a useful word, especially when contrasted with what Tom Wolfe called “the right stuff”: doing a hard job because it’s a calling, not a money-maker. In the terrific movie, The Right Stuff, based on Wolfe’s book by the same name, an official in asks one pilot how much extra pay he wants in order to risk his life trying to break the sound barrier. The answer comes back, “, … non-negotiable.” The official then asks Chuck Yeager how much he wants. Yeager replies, “The Air Force pays me. … When do we go?” In the movie Yeager agrees to fly the next morning and heads off. The official then asks an Air Force officer, “How
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The Walnut Tree Charles Todd Charles Todd—the pen name of a mother/son writing team— takes a break from mystery novels to offer this moving, Christmas-themed romance set during World War I and focusing on brave battlefield nurses. The plot has Lady Elspeth, a titled woman from Scotland, visiting France with her pregnant friend when war breaks out. Almost betrothed to a wealthy Frenchman, she returns to England and he goes off to war. Wanting to play her part, she trains as a nurse secretly, because she suspects her guardian won’t approve. She then tends the wounded, mourns the dead, and runs into an old friend of her cousin, but romantic complications war with Elspeth’s desire to honor her promise and fulfill her duty.
Love Anthony Lisa Genova Lisa Genova, who has a Harvard Ph.D. in neuroscience, embeds insights into autism within an improbable plot of self-discovery set in Nantucket. There, photographer Olivia mourns the death of her autistic son, her inability to communicate with him, and the impact his death had on her fragile marriage. Meanwhile, Beth grieves her husband’s adultery and, as a way of coping, begins to write a story about a child with autism. The two mothers meet and develop a casual friendship—but when Olivia reads a draft of Beth’s story, she feels as though her son is communicating to her through it. Some obscenities and crudities.
City Girl, Country Vet Cathy Woodman Cathy Woodman adds warm details about veterinary practice and country living to a basic chick-lit plot that begins when London vet Maz Harwood breaks up with her live-in boyfriend, who also happens to be her boss. A friend asks Maz to take over temporarily her country veterinarian practice while she goes abroad. This fish-out-of-water tale has Maz dealing with problems she never encountered in the city, including hostility and sabotage from the village’s other veterinary practice. Financial stress, unhappy clients, and romantic troubles cause Maz to reconsider the wisdom of her move.
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Mrs Queen Takes the Train William Kuhn William Kuhn offers a charming tale of Queen Elizabeth slipping away from Buckingham Palace to visit Brittania, the former royal yacht on which she spent many happy days. By the time anyone in the palace realizes she’s missing, the unrecognized Queen— dressed in a borrowed hoodie—is on a train headed north to Edinburgh. Kuhn amusingly keeps the slightly dotty, melancholy, and warm-hearted queen a step ahead of palace officials desperate to find her. Downside: Kuhn clutters that plot with various subplots, including one involving the search for love by two homosexual palace officials.
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In Waiting for Sunrise (Revell, ), Eva Marie Everson depicts the long-lasting effects on children of their parents’ weakness and sin. Patsy is only when her mother sends her by bus to live with a kind family, hoping to protect her from an abusive father. Patsy doesn’t understand and feels abandoned and unloved. Her brothers grow up with the abusive father. One becomes a punching bag. The other seeks refuge with different godly families. Although Everson doesn’t resolve every plot line with a happy ending, a redemptive thread runs through the novel.
In Nothing to Hide (Bethany House, ), J. Mark Bertrand continues his series featuring Houston homicide detective Roland March. A murder appears to be tied to gun smuggling and gangs, but because the FBI holds back crucial facts, March has trouble sorting out the players and knowing which ones to trust. Through plot twists and turns, March sees himself as a pursuer after justice but cuts corners to get there. Bertrand’s Roland March series offers a redemptive twist on the hard-boiled detective novel. —S.O.
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The country, says author CHARLES MURRAY, has big problems regardless of who wins the presidential election BY MARVIN OLASKY
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A E Institute scholar Charles Murray writes books that create intellectual tsunamis, from Losing Ground in (which eviscerated the U.S. welfare system) to Real Education four years ago (which proposed alternatives to bachelor’s degrees; see “College Crush,” Feb. , ). This year’s Murray blockbuster argues that the United States is Coming Apart. Ernest Hemingway said F. Scott Fitzgerald once told him, “The rich are different from you and me.” Hemingway said he responded, “Yes, they have more money.” Do you say they also have a different culture? In the old days the people who ran corporations or were in politics overwhelmingly grew up in farm homes or in homes where their fathers were factory workers or ran small stores or the rest of it. When they came
to power they got more money than other people, but their culture was the same. Now the elites are different in kind. It’s not just that they have more money. They have a separate culture. When did that change begin? In the s America’s colleges started to get really efficient at finding the best talent everywhere in the country. In an elite neighborhood in , about threequarters of the couples in that neighborhood would have no college degrees, or only one. In the majority of couples, one was socialized through high school and only one was socialized through college, and probably not one of the elite colleges. Jump to and it’s different. Everyone in those elite neighborhoods is socialized through college in general, and elite colleges in particular. How are the two cultures different? Members of the new upper class these days get married in their late s or beyond, and don’t have kids
until later. They read different books—in reading books at all they are apart from a great deal of the rest of the country. A lot of American popular culture is transmitted through TV, but if the elite have one at all they use it to watch DVDs of movies, or Downton Abbey, or Mad Men. Are evangelicals divided in that way? My sense is that evangelicals don’t have many of the problems I’m talking about—and I’m not saying that because I’m in front of a Patrick Henry College audience. There are, in being a devout evangelical, all sorts of things that will lead you to be engaged with people of all classes. Caring for the less fortunate is a fundamental tenet of Christian morality. People who are imbued with that are going to spend a lot of time, effort, and money, and personal attention trying to deal with the human problems around them. In general, though, we don’t know how the other
half lives? If you grew up in the upper middle class in an affluent neighborhood you are especially isolated from that world. You really don’t have a good idea of what it’s like to be the son or daughter of a truck driver. Marriage is one of the key divides? Fifty years ago we were pretty much one nation across classes and the classic example of that is marriage. Divorce in the upper middle class has been going down since the s, so those in the upper middle class are increasingly on their first marriage. Meanwhile, among - to -year-olds in the white working class, we’re down to percent married. That has big implications. Single dads don’t really coach Little League teams very often. Single moms don’t have much time to go to PTA meetings. The community functions very differently, and the whole culture starts to collapse and change. We now have two cultures.
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If you grew up in the upper middle class in an affluent neighborhood, you are especially isolated from that world. You really don’t have a good idea of what it’s like to be the son or daughter of a truck driver. working-class communities work: It’s a kind of growing social disorganization that goes to the heart of what in the past made America exceptionally vibrant in community life. Why has the decline occurred? You had Darwin and evolution. Then you had Freud and the discovery of the unconscious. … It’s not that the intellectuals read Thomas Aquinas and said, “No, he’s wrong.” They basically said, “The Sunday school stories
we grew up with are obviously wrong, and therefore there is nothing worthy in Christianity.” You have provided the sociological equivalent of what theologian Francis Schaeffer talked about: l iving off the interest. Biblical belief leads to positive social developments, but you can’t keep living off the interest. At some point you’ve got to replenish the capital. We
haven’t replenished the capital, and it also has all sorts of implications. We do not know whether a secular society can remain a virtuous society, because we’ve never had in the history of civilizations a society as secular as Western Europe is now. And in America? The Founders said emphatically that the Constitution they had created would not work for any but a religious and moral people. They saw religion as the foundation for morality, so the key requirement for the American experiment was self-government. I don’t mean self-government in terms of governmental institutions. I mean government of the self, by the self—and religion is the basis for that to happen. Insofar as that has declined, you have a classic case of living off the interest. A —Go to worldmag.com during the week of Oct. 21 to see short pieces about Murray and God, Murray and education, and Murray and Miss America
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How many people see that as a problem? What’s scary to me is that a lot of upper-class members now are perfectly happy thinking of themselves as being in an upper class. A senior executive at a major New York ad agency lived in a modest house in 1960. Americans denied they were in the upper class, or in the lower class: We all wanted to be middle class. Now some people really don’t see why they should want to associate with Americans who aren’t as rich and well-educated as they are. They’re very happy being members of the upper class— that scares me. Which comes first, the decline in church involvement or the decline in m arriage? I can’t give you a simple answer. The fact of getting married often concentrates people’s attention on spiritual and religious matters— but religious belief is a big prompter for getting married. A loss of religiosity will be associated with lower marriage rates. It’s a feedback loop. Sociologist Peter Berger’s most famous comment is that India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden the least, and America is a land of Indians ruled by Swedes. Have you flipped that? In part. When you go to the Harvard faculty the percentage of people who profess religion goes way, way down: very low religiosity at the very top. But in the upper middle class, while religiosity has declined, it hasn’t declined as much as it has in the white working class. The bottom has fallen out of religious observance in the white working class. This collapse of religiosity has profound implications for how
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Growing pains
His behavior may not reflect it, but BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG’s music shows him maturing
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off the rails are warranted. The more interesting question: Was it necessary? iUno! is in many respects a typical Green Day album. For minutes, catchy, tightly wound pop-punk propels inarticulate bursts of emotional infantilism, much of it profane. iUno! adheres, in other words, to the same formula that has helped Green Day rack up awards, land a Broadway musical, and sell over million albums worldwide since its majorlabel debut years ago. Yet Amazon’s decision to sell downloads of the album for , thus guaranteeing it a good chart showing, gave rise to talk of performance anxiety. And, to the extent that such anxiety is justified, it might have to do with the suspicion that at Armstrong may not have many miles left on the tires of his angry-young-man act. Several iUno! songs do in fact find Armstrong grudgingly acceding to
maturity. In “Nuclear Family,” he likens the family’s “breaking down” to a “Chinese drama and conspiracy,” neither of which he seems to consider salutary. And in “Kill The DJ,” he’s dismayed to discover the extent to which Central Park at night has become a “Sodom and Gomorrah.” It’s “Sweet ,” however, that most threatens to dislodge Armstrong’s smirking mask. Sung by a man to the love of his life from the vantage point of longtime commitment, it pays heartfelt tribute to emotional verities at odds with the condition of being perpetually aggrieved on which Green Day has heretofore built its success.
Excellent art Armstrong is not the only musician making news for erratic public behavior. Art Garfunkel recently bailed on two scheduled concerts in Sweden, returning to the United States without informing his Swedish hosts. And, as with Armstrong’s rehab, Garfunkel’s timing could not have been better. Columbia/Legacy has just released The Singer, a two-disc compilation of the -year-old’s many career highlights and the first to mix his solo and Simon & Garfunkel hits. Good—indeed, revelatory— though it is, there’s little doubt that Garfunkel’s Swedish vanishing act has gotten him more attention than his going on with the show would have. The best Garfunkel could’ve done, after all, is excellent, and, as The Singer amply demonstrates, excellence would be nothing new for him. The husky shimmer of his instantly identifiable voice has never been a rock ’n’ roll sound per se. It’s too delicate, for one thing. It has, however, proven ideal at keeping songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Rogers and Hammerstein, Sam Cooke, and Jimmy Webb alive during the rock ’n’ roll era and in so doing served as a “bridge over troubled water” in more ways than one. —A.O.
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I publicity stunt, checking into a rehab facility is sometimes the penultimate one. And Green Day’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, has pulled it. A day after storming off the stage at a Las Vegas music festival, Armstrong removed himself from all promotional activities associated with his band’s new album, iUno! (Reprise), the first in a series of a promised trilogy. The reason: to deal with “substance abuse.” The story is plausible. Aside from his Las Vegas meltdown, which one source close to the poppunk trio has attributed to heavy drinking, Armstrong has at least one DUI arrest to his name. But these are hyperreal times. And it wouldn’t be shocking for a veteran band with a new album to conclude that a public outburst followed by a period of professionally overseen sobriety might go further publicity-wise than one more round of PR. So questions about the timing, if not the actual truth, of Armstrong’s going
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Born to Sing: No Plan B Van Morrison This album sounds like most of the others Morrison has released in the last years—lots of emoting about opening one’s heart and achieving peace of mind while jazzy blues or bluesy jazz plays in the background. Pleasant, even soulful, but hardly newsworthy. Even the bluesy blues “Pagan Heart” has clear Morrison antecedents. What’s different are “Educating Archie,” which blames global capitalism, the media, and constitutional indifference for endangering the individualism of the “working-class white,” and “If in Money We Trust,” which repeatedly asks “Where’s God?” Babel Mumford & Sons The Byrds had Roger McGuinn’s Rickenbacker. Mumford & Sons have Winston Marshall’s banjo. And, the possession of a signature sound aside, there’s little in common between the folk-rock of yore and the folk-rock of today. The Byrds didn’t seem to be repeatedly writing the same song, for instance, or inflate their music with martial rhythms and overearnest singing. They did, however, popularize “Jesus Is Just Alright,” a sentiment with which Mumford & Sons apparently concur. As for this album’s F-bomb song, it’s empathy for the devil.
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C.A.R. Serengeti Sufjan Stevens fans impressed by their hero’s recent collaboration with this Chicago rapper on the EP Beak & Claw will understandably be interested in what Serengeti has to say on his own. Alas, how he says it is more interesting: His articulate enunciation, imaginative rhymes, and kaleidoscopic soundscapes set him apart from the hip-hop competition. It really is too bad, therefore, that only on the opening and closing cuts (“Greyhound” and “Uncle Traum,” respectively) does he forgo profanity, especially since he’s plenty funny, observant, and insightful without it. Her solo soul-baring behind her, Leigh Nash sounds as if she’s relishing sharing the spotlight with a band again: Her singing is as pretty and carefree as ever, no matter how convincingly she sings “Time’s not my friend anymore” in “Failure.” Meanwhile, although “Radio” may be the only track hooky and universal enough to hold its own beside the songs that made Sixpence two-hit wonders last century, the tunefulness and introspective acuity of the others, “Failure” included, suggest that time is still friendlier than Nash thinks.
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SPOTLIGHT Paul Carrack is currently celebrating his th anniversary as one of the world’s most diversified and gifted blue-eyed soul singers, and he’s celebrating it in style. First, there’s Collected (Universal), a three-disc compilation containing not only the hits he sang with Ace (“How Long”), Mike + the Mechanics (“The Living Years,” “Silent Running”), Squeeze (“Tempted”), and under his own name (“Don’t Shed a Tear”) but also his many often equally noteworthy misses. Second, there’s Good Feeling (Carrack-UK), his follow-up to the album he recorded in with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, A Hat. Of Different Hat Feeling’s Good Feeling tracks, only one, a lovely rendition of the Thad Jones-Alec Wilder jazz classic “A Child Is Born,” could’ve fit Hat’s sumptuous A Different Hat settings. But no matter. The infectiously finger-poppin’ R&B tempos that predominate provide Carrack’s voice—often self-overdubbed into rich, street-corner vocal-group harmonies—with an equally flattering showcase in which to shine.
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Spicy democracy
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BANGALORE—I left India this month trailing masala—the garlic, onions, chili paste, ginger, cardamom, and other exotic spices that fill the air morning to night, infusing every dish, even breakfast food. I overdosed. Twenty hours in flight and nearly , miles later, it was still seeping from my pores. Masala is a good backdrop for contemplating India’s burgeoning democracy. It’s messy, obnoxious, full of contrasts and contradictions, fascinating: In short, it’s spicy. In reality, democracy has been that kind of business ever since the Continental Congress delegates took their seats in Philadelphia long ago. In a season when democracy as a form of government turns another page in the United States, it’s perhaps never been a more abused term around the world. We know now that elections do not a democracy make. Elections without guaranteed individual liberties, the rule of law, and a strong civil society become a cover for another form of tyranny. A democrat won’t necessarily prevail in such a democracy. But democracies don’t come about overnight. India, the world’s largest democracy, is like the rest of us an uneasy one. Its independence in ushered in a generation of socialist leadership starting with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Then followed what Indian author Gurcharan Das has called “a lost generation,” where many Indians stagnated in poverty though the country’s economy, education, and personal freedom in fact were slowly expanding. Then, starting in , according to Das, India’s latest era began “a rebirth of dreams.” If you don’t think economic policy matters, consider this: The single largest change in was that the government abruptly ended its “license raj,” an
elaborate system of bureaucratic controls imposed on all business and commerce since independence. Nearly every year since, India’s economy has grown at a rate of percent—nearly double the U.S. rate. Forecasters say in the next decade India will overtake Japan as the third-largest economy in the world. Not everyone here knows the prosperity. Estimates are that million Indians (of . billion) live in absolute poverty. In Bangalore, the center of the country’s explosive IT growth, new apartment complexes— complete with covered carports sheltering shiny new sedans—abut vacant lots where the lowest caste “untouchables,” known as Dalits, live in tents of plastic tarps and drying palm fronds. The country’s vast diversity— languages, along with all the world’s major religions—guarantees that challenges will remain. But the public square for vetting tensions appears to be growing. In a skirmish roughly parallel to the one over Mitt Romney’s “ percent,” India’s Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Oct. said his country has more temples than toilets, and that “toilets are more important than temples,” attempting to make a point about sanitation. In a country that is about percent Hindu, his remarks were incendiary: Hindu nationalist party leaders staged protests outside Ramesh’s home and ministry headquarters in New Delhi, demanding an apology. What morphed into the “toilet vs. temple debate” laid bare a public dispute about the responsibility of the state versus individuals and the vast economic divide between India’s growing, urban middle class and its rural poor. Hindus took offense at the comparison, but the mobs and violence we’re growing accustomed to seeing in these cases never developed. Rule of law, too, took a step forward in October when a court in New Delhi sentenced to death five family members involved in a “honor killing.” When a couple from different Hindu castes announced plans to marry, the girl’s parents, uncle, aunt, and a cousin tortured and electrocuted the two to death. It’s the third case where a Delhi court has awarded the death penalty since last year when the Supreme Court said that “honor killings” fell in the “rarest of rare” category deserving capital punishment. These represent important if hesitating steps toward democracy in more than name only. They lend hope that such killings may one day also be prosecuted in other so-called democracies, like Pakistan and countries now in transition in the Middle East. A
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ow fine is the line between victory and defeat? If the path of a St. Louis batter’s ground ball just after midnight on Oct. 13 had been a few inches to the left, Washington’s shortstop would have scooped it up and thrown to first for the final out—and the Nationals would have won the series. In several tight, nationally significant races on Nov. 6, U.S. senators and aspirants will be hoping that one out of a hundred voters flips their way. (See p. 46 for races to watch.) As the battle of Gettysburg at one point hinged on the leadership of future Maine governor Joshua Chamberlain at Little Round Top, so control of the Senate may hinge on one triangular contest in Maine. As passage of Obamacare in 2010 depended on the gullibility of several pro-life Democrats—an executive order restricting use of federal funds for abortion has big loopholes and can be rescinded by any president at any time for any reason—so most voters decide on House of Representative candidates without much information about their character and intelligence. (See p. 50 for House races to watch.)
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is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper—no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.” Along with presidential, Senate, and House races this year, we have important gubernatorial and referenda battles. (See pages 54 and 58.) With fear and trembling we can report that all of them depend on fallen and sinful individuals, with all the quirky reasoning at our command, marking ballots. The consolation in all this is not a little cross on paper but the wooden cross on a hill 2,000 years ago, and the knowledge that Christ died for us in our arrogance and folly and evil inclinations. Faith in democracy, the Founders, and even America itself is insufficient. We need faith in God. A HIGH STAKES: Supporters hold signs at Centre College in Danville, Ky., site of the Oct. 11 vice presidential debate.
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In other words, an election within a tightly divided nation is from a materialist standpoint a crapshoot, and from a Christian worldview perspective one that inquires intense prayer along with trust in God’s providential guidance of all that happens. That’s especially the case in our highstakes presidential election: The outcome in 10 or so battleground states will decide the election, and the final decision of five out of 100 voters—the wavering “undecideds”—will decide whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins those states. And on what basis will the waverers decide? A commercial full of distortions? A candidate’s grimace or smile? Voters’ digestion? Many quote Winston Churchill’s line in 1947, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others,” but Churchill himself was quoting some older wisdom. What he did say three years earlier in the House of Commons was this: “At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy
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fter losing his bid for a seventh Senate term by a 22 percent margin, Indiana Republican Dick Lugar began to wind down his 36-year Senate career by saying the usual concession speech fluff. During a brisk seven minutes, he congratulated his victorious opponent, Richard Mourdock, on a hardfought primary race and added that he hoped Mourdock would contribute to a new Republican majority in the Senate. Lugar then kissed his wife on both cheeks, hugged the rest of his family, waved both his hands to the cheering crowd, and exited stage right. Lugar may have summoned a contrite spirit for the cameras that May 8 night, but he did not utter his true parting words on stage. His staff soon distributed a three-page, nearly 1,500-word treatise in which Lugar warned that Mourdock’s “embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate.” Lugar lambasted Mourdock for his “rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition” and predicted that Mourdock would “achieve little as a legislator” unless he changed his ways. The soon-to-be ex-senator, first elected in 1976, did not face forced retirement quietly. Democrats, hoping to steal this safe Republican seat, pounced. Using Lugar’s diatribe as a script, Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democratic candidate for the seat, portrays himself as a bipartisan legislator. Donnelly filmed political ads showing him standing in the middle of a road while a driver impersonating Mourdock shouts, “It’s my way or the highway,” as he swerves past. “We need less reckless partisanship and more Hoosier common sense,” said Donnelly, who often calls Lugar an “American hero.” The tactic to drive a wedge between disaffected Lugar supporters and other Republicans has turned this election into a surprising battle. Lugar’s own words have laid the groundwork for a race that could help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate come next January. Republicans need a net gain of four seats to win control of the Senate. Earlier this year that prospect seemed like a good bet: Of the 33 Senate seats up for reelection Democrats hold 23. That includes several in red states like Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, and Missouri that are predicted to vote Republican in this year’s presidential election. Democrats also have to defend seven open seats where the DIFFERENT incumbent is MINDSETS: Lugar retiring, as well (left) and Mourdock as seats in presiat a debate in April.
dential swing states such as Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. But a lot of potholes have appeared in that supposed clear path to a Republican Senate majority. Susan Collins’ unexpected retirement has jeopardized the Republican-held Senate seat she holds in Maine, where a Democratic-leaning independent, popular former Gov. Angus King, now leads. And in solidly Republican Missouri, Rep. Todd Akin’s infamous comments about female bodies having mechanisms to prevent pregnancy from “legitimate rape” turned him from a frontrunner to an underdog in his bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. Akin resisted demands from within his own party to leave the race, but he could not prevent Republican groups from removing from the state their crucial campaign cash. The race for the Senate is not getting as much attention as the presidential race, but conservatives agree it is just as important in stopping the growth of government. “Does anyone think Harry Reid will ever send a bill to the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare?” asked Sen. Jim DeMint, referring to the Democratic Senate leader from Nevada. “The answer is no, and that’s why I am focused on sending strong conservatives to the Senate who will make that a reality.” That’s also why the suddenly contentious race for an Indiana Senate seat held
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NORTH DAKOTA Republicans are hoping to pick up a seat in this conservative-leaning state BERG with a longtime Democratic incumbent, retiring Sen. Kent Conrad. Their candidate, Rick Berg, has already won a statewide HEITKAMP race as the state’s only member of the U.S. House. So has Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, former attorney general. Street-level, retail politics will play a huge role in a state with fewer than , residents. In Berg’s favor: The state has gone Republican in of the last presidential elections.
NEBRASKA Republican state Sen. Deb Fischer owns a ranch and calls herself a citizen FISCHER legislator. She is running for the seat held by retiring Democrat Ben Nelson, who cast the deciding Senate vote for Obamacare after KERREY negotiating the “Cornhusker Kickback”— million in Medicaid funding for his state. “With your help the very same Senate seat that gave us Obamacare will become the Senate seat that repeals it,” Fischer tells voters. Her opponent, the state’s former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, left office in and moved to New York City.
VIRGINIA In a race featuring two former governors, Republican George Allen is trying to ALLEN reclaim the Senate seat he lost six years ago to retiring Democrat Jim Webb. Allen’s opponent, Tim Kaine, created an KAINE opening by saying during the first debate that he would consider a minimum tax for everyone. Allen is calling Kaine a parttime governor and Obama’s “cheerleader in chief” because of Kaine’s stint as Democratic Party chairman.
WISCONSIN The Tea Party crowd may not have applauded former four-term Gov. Tommy Thompson’s win in the state’s GOP primary, but he is turning the battle to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl into a tighter race than many predicted. His name recognition and the boost he enjoys from having Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as the party’s vice presidential nominee are combining to make life difficult for presumed frontrunner Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin.
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CONNECTICUT Two years ago Republican Linda McMahon lost her Senate bid by perMcMAHON centage points despite spending million of her own money. Now the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment is MURPHY back and running a much closer race. She has reached out to women voters and is benefitting from the low name recognition of her opponent, Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy. Murphy will get a boost from Obama’s strong lead in the state.
by Republicans for of the last years has conservatives worried. Senate Republican leaders like Rob Portman of Ohio and John Cornyn of Texas are stumping in Indiana. “Please, please send us Richard Mourdock,” Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan pleaded at a recent Indianapolis fundraiser. Tea Party and grassroots conservatives heralded Mourdock’s resounding primary victory over Lugar this spring in much the same way they cheered underdog Ted Cruz’s surprise Republican Senate primary win over an establishment candidate in Texas this summer. Mourdock is a -year–old marathonrunning geologist turned state treasurer who has made three unsuccessful earlier attempts to run for Congress. But this time his campaign strategy of going right after Lugar’s moderate record struck a chord with voters. Indiana went for Obama by a mere percentage point in , but since then the state has become more conservative, defunding Planned Parenthood and supporting a right-to-work law. Mitt Romney likely will carry Indiana in November. Signs for the presidential race are much more prominent after you cross the state line into the battleground state of Michigan. Mourdock pinged Lugar for being too cozy with Democrats and supporting too much of President Obama’s agenda, including votes for Obama’s two Supreme Court picks. Other longterm GOP senators like Utah’s Orrin Hatch survived intraparty challenges by adjusting course after correctly reading the rightward direction of the political winds within the party. Lugar continued on a moderate path, voting for bailouts and reforms touted by Obama. It doomed him when he stood before Indiana Republican voters, who went for Mourdock percent to percent. “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view,” Mourdock said the day after banishing Lugar. But now the coal company executive who likes to race cars on dirt tracks may be facing a backlash among the state’s “Lugar Republicans” that mirrors the growing tension nationwide between establishment and conservative Republicans.
“Lugar built up a lot of goodwill over his long career,” says Timothy Wesco, a Republican state lawmaker from Elkhart, Ind. “Moderate Democrats and independents in Lugar’s camp have a strong sense of loyalty, and those are the ones who will decide the election.” This fall Mourdock has toned down his rhetoric while arguing that a vote for Donnelly is a vote for President Obama and his policies. He is trying to avoid the plight two years ago of Republicans Joe Miller in Alaska, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, and Sharron Angle in Nevada: All three Tea Party–backed candidates registered upset wins in primaries only to lose in general elections. But not all Tea Party conservatives suffered general election defeats. Tea Party favorites now hold Senate seats from Utah, Kentucky, Florida, and Wisconsin—and Cruz from Texas is set to join this group of Tea Party senators. A recent Associated Press poll showed that percent of likely voters consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party, suggesting that they will still be a significant voting bloc this November. But those races did not feature the Lugar factor. This fall, as the race tightened and morphed into a toss-up, Lugar resisted pleas that he get involved. “I have not been a factor in the campaign and I do not intend to do so,” Lugar told a conservative Indiana blogger—but he has been a factor. Some of Lugar’s past supporters are raising money and hosting events for Donnelly, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has just announced plans to spend , for Mourdock. That’s a small slice of the million or so that outside conservative groups are projected to spend on Senate races this year, but it’s money that could be used in other battleground states. Meanwhile, in August—a prime campaigning month—Lugar visited the former Soviet Union, Belgium, and the Netherlands to receive honors and awards. He plans to visit Southeast Asia in October. Back in Indiana Donnelly now enjoys a narrow lead. Wesco says Lugar’s actions demonstrate his priorities: “He would rather cement his legacy and thank his foreign friends than cement a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.” A
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hen 85 newly elected Republicans entered the House of Representatives in 2011—the largest GOP freshman class in history, swept into office largely on the power of Tea Party fervor—it was clear that many would be in Democratic crosshairs in 2012. Two of them, Scott Rigell of Virginia and Joe Walsh of Illinois, are sticking with principle while trying to put on political Kevlar.
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Rigell, a 52-year-old auto dealer, has bucked party leadership, criticized Congress’ light workload, donated $49,000 of his salary back to the U.S. Treasury, and declined congressional health and retirement benefits. He runs his office at 2008 budget levels. Why? “The only way we’re going to recover is to lead by example,” he told me. Rigell’s efforts also include the Fix Congress Now Caucus, a bipartisan group pushing a bill that would suspend congressional pay if lawmakers fail to pass a budget every year by Oct. 1. The caucus has
only 12 members so far—eight Republicans and four Democrats— but the No Budget, No Pay Act has more than 100 co-sponsors, and Rigell said its passage will be a top priority in his second term. Another one of Rigell’s priorities is promoting civility (he routinely hosts Democrats at his home) and working across the aisle, a goal he believes runs counter to the anti-tax-hike pledge he signed. He renounced the pledge earlier this year when he found out closing tax loopholes—an idea supported by Paul Ryan—without corresponding
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district that gave Barack Obama 61 percent of its vote in 2008 (he’s polling at 49 percent this year). Walsh, a Tea Party Republican, has been outspoken in his criticism of President Barack Obama and was one of 22 Republicans to oppose the Budget Control Act of 2011, the debt deal that created the looming budget sequestration set to take effect Jan. 1, 2013. Walsh had a slight advantage in independent polling in early October, but Duckworth was still claiming a double-digit lead. Dan Holler, communications director of Heritage Action, an advocacy and funding group formed in 2010, says Walsh’s race is “critical for conservatives” and his organization is “active and engaged” in the race, which has seen millions in outside money. Planned Parenthood and the George Soros–backed House Majority PAC are among the groups supporting Duckworth. Democrats need to pick up 25 seats to regain the majority, a feat few on Capitol Hill think will happen. But many more newcomers will arrive in 2013, with 63 House seats already guaranteed to change hands due to retirements, resignations, death, and members pursuing other offices.
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spending cuts counted as breaking the commitment. Rigell became one of the most outspoken in the growing number opposing the pledge, including Rob Wittman, a third-term Republican from Virginia who never signed it. He says Rigell and others in the freshman class have quickly learned how Washington works: “The process itself can be frustrating, but I think our Founding Fathers had it right in looking at a process that’s very deliberative. You come in wanting to achieve things quickly, [but] there’s only so much that an individual member of Congress controls.” Rigell, a second-generation Marine who says he will serve no more than four terms, faces a well-financed opponent in a district that has swung back and forth between parties in the last three election cycles. He hopes his constituents will appreciate his reformminded leadership when they go to the ballot box Nov. 6. Rigell early in October led in polls, but he is up against a strong opponent in fellow businessman Paul Hirschbiel, a friend and former business partner of Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.
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Unproductive for a purpose Judging by legislation passed, the 112th Congress has been one of the least productive in decades, but GOP freshman James Lankford of Oklahoma says it has “stopped the hemorrhaging.” Lankford noted that spending increases are down from Obama’s first two years in office, which netted the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, Cash for Clunkers, and other debt-spiking measures: “That’s what they [the Democratic-majority House] did when they were ‘productive,’” Lankford said. Still, the 112th House of Representatives has not been able to keep the flow of red ink under $1 trillion annually. Lankford said he and his freshman colleagues are serious about fiscal responsibility: “The freshman class is very diverse with one exception: We all have this common disdain for debt.” The biggest spending cuts—and the most lasting impact—of the 112th Congress could happen after it ends. A combination of expiring tax cuts, unrenewed business tax breaks, and the budget sequestration have created what the Congressional Budget Office dubs a “fiscal cliff”: It projects that the 2013 deficit would drop to $641 billion, but a recession would occur. —J.C.D.
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CALIFORNIA-7 Democrats already hold a -to- seat advantage in House representation from California, and District is one of three more that could turn blue in November. Four-term GOP incumbent Dan Lungren faces a challenge from Democrat Ami Bera, who is attempting to build on a strong run in .
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ARIZONA-1 Redistricting pushed the voter needle toward Democrats and convinced incumbent GOP freshman Paul Gosar to run in another district. The desertion could allow EMILY’s List– approved Ann Kirkpatrick to regain her old seat for Democrats, although Republican voters still make up half the district.
INDIANA-2 Former state Rep. Jackie Walorski narrowly lost her bid to unseat incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly, who is now running for the Senate. The open seat gives Walorski, a Tea Party favorite, a clear shot against Democrat Brendan Mullen.
NEW YORK-24 Republican Ann Marie Buerkle caught the GOP wave into Congress, but redistricting could spell a quick exit. In a rematch from two years ago, former Rep. Dan Maffei is trying to take advantage of the district’s new Democratic tilt to unseat Buerkle, to whom Family Research Council has given a perfect voting record.
MASSACHUSETTS-6 Democratic incumbent John Tierney’s reelection bid has been sabotaged by his wife’s involvement in an illegal gambling venture, opening the door for challenger Richard Tisei, a -year veteran of the state legislature. How much help conservatives would get from a moderate, openly gay Republican is unclear, but Tisei could steal a typically Democratic seat for the GOP.
ARKANSAS-4 Republican Tom Cotton looks poised to take a seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Mike Ross. A Cotton victory would give Bill Clinton’s home state an all-GOP House delegation for the first time since the reign of Queen Victoria.
NORTH CAROLINA-8 Despite breaking with his party on issues such as the Affordable Care Act, Democrat Larry Kissell faces an uphill battle after redistricting turned his district decidedly more Republican. Challenger Richard Hudson has never run for office, but has the backing of GOP heavyweights, including Mike Huckabee and Paul Ryan.
FLORIDA-18 High-profile freshman Allen West is running for a new seat after redistricting stirred voter demographics in Florida. West has plenty of money and GOP muscle backing him, but faces a formidable foe in youthful Democrat Patrick Murphy.
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Washington’s McKenna exemplifies the conditions favoring Republicans. The state’s 8.6 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s 15th worst. When the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics includes those who are underemployed or have given up looking for work, the rate jumps to 17 percent. Washington’s voters are asking the same question as voters in other states: How can the gubernatorial candidate get people back to work? McKenna says three decades worth of state regulations have buried Washington businesses. At a recent campaign appearance at a high-rise building in downtown Seattle, he told business leaders he understands their pain: “Every day you get up and work hard to make your company successful and every day someone is trying to eat your lunch. … That’s the essence of competition.” Early in 2012, while many focused on presidential primaries, McKenna held more than a dozen small business forums around Washington. The nearly 500 business leaders he met gave him the same feedback: Rising healthcare costs combined with government regulations were making it too expensive to grow their businesses and hire more employees. During the past three years, Washington state officials have adopted more than 4,000 new permanent business regulations. Business owners in Washington must navigate more than 100,000 requirements, according to the Washington Policy Center. Overall, the regulations fill 32 phone-book-sized volumes that stacked together are more than 5 feet tall. The state auditor released a report this fall faulting the state’s 26 regulatory agencies for not streamlining a “dense regulatory environment” that hampers small businesses the most. McKenna’s Democratic challenger Jay Inslee is promising to focus on job creation. His stump speeches offer a
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efficiency rather than tax increases, McDonnell helped Virginia’s state budget return to levels enjoyed before the current
nationwide recession. This summer Virginia posted its third straight budget surplus—. million this fiscal year—largely from the million saved by state agencies operating below their budgeted levels. The previous fiscal year Virginia had a . million surplus. Unemployment in the state has fallen from . percent when McDonnell took office to . percent today. With McDonnell serving as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, campaigns around the country are retelling Virginia’s budget story. “For too long, elected officials from both parties have overpromised
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top-down, government-centered approach. He would create new government departments, including an Economic Competitiveness and Development office with a cabinet-level director. His plan to get the government more active in clean energy and shipbuilding industries includes establishing new state agencies focused on biofuels and marine innovation. McKenna and other GOP gubernatorial candidates around the country are attacking this pervasive governmentfirst attitude and finding receptive audiences. “If you are in a room with a group of business leaders and you say the magic words ‘Washington State Department of Labor & Industries’ their temperature goes through the roof,” said Paul Guppy, a vice president at the Washington Policy Center. McKenna pledges to conduct a government-wide review of state regulations, arguing that government regulators have an incentive to fight for outdated, onerous rules that give them job security. McKenna also touts a tax break for , small businesses that would save them a combined million a year. With Washington one of just four states that do not open up their worker’s compensation system to private competition, McKenna vows to break up the government’s insurance monopoly and let employers choose between state-run and private options. A new poll by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Federation of Independent Business found that percent of small business owners and manufacturers say regulatory policies have hurt American
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and overspent,” McDonnell says. “We are committed to a culture of fiscal responsibility and restraint in state government. We have made some very tough choices. We have reduced spending, not raised taxes, and focused government on its core functions.” In Washington, the mood of the voters toward state government began to change in when it appeared that Republican Dino Rossi had broken the Democratic stranglehold on the governor’s office. Rossi won the initial automated count and recount, but Democrat Christine Gregoire became the winner after the Washington State Democratic Party paid for a second recount done by hand. Rossi lost that final recount by just votes out of nearly million votes cast. Gregoire secured reelection in —a year that saw disgruntled voters give Democrats control of the White House and greater power in Congress. But Washington voters kept edging closer toward fiscal conservatism on a state level: Voters in rejected by percentage points a ballot proposal to impose a percent tax on income over , and a percent tax on income over ,. Washington Democrats on this November’s ballot are counting on an Obama bounce, but McKenna, in winning nearly percent of the vote during his reelection as attorney general, was the only candidate to outperform Obama statewide in . After taking governorships away from Democrats in , Republican governors lead states. With the GOP competitive in at least four states where Democrats are now in charge, the nation could see nearly two-thirds of all the governorships held by the GOP after this election. That would be the largest number of Republican governors in the country since . The Republican Governors Association raised a record . million in the third quarter of this year, giving it a total of million for this election, double its fundraising pace. The group has already invested million in Washington where McKenna hopes to accomplish what hasn’t been done since the year the upstart U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the powerhouse Soviet Union. A
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as a meeting gets under way at Wayland Baptist Church in Baltimore. Thirty-one people file into the chapel and slide into worn wooden pews with a Star of David emblazoned on each end. It’s Monday night, but it feels like a Sunday sermon. “The power of the election is in your hands,” Derek McCoy nearly shouts as the crowd murmurs agreement. “This is our defining moment in history!” It’s not the heat of a presidential election that riles McCoy, who tells the audience he doesn’t care which candidate they support: “Vote for Gerald Ford, vote for Harry Truman if you want,” he quips. “We just need you to vote against Question on November .” McCoy, executive director of the Maryland Marriage Alliance, has been crisscrossing the state for months to stop same-sex “marriage” from becoming permanent law. In March proponents jammed the Civil Marriage Protection Act through the Maryland General Assembly after failing in three
previous attempts. The Maryland Marriage Alliance responded by rounding up , signatures—almost three times the amount needed—by the end of July to force a referendum vote. I sat down to talk with McCoy at Maryland Marriage Alliance headquarters in Annapolis, . miles down the street from where state lawmakers dealt traditional marriage a one-vote defeat last spring. McCoy knows about the backroom deals and favors that helped Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley get his way, but he doesn’t dwell on those unseemly facts. Instead, McCoy spends his time talking about how history—and his three kids—will look back on what this generation did to protect marriage. “We have an obligation to the next generation,” he said, munching on Cheetos after talking through lunch on a midday BEADS OF radio show in CHANGE: Edward Ritchie Baltimore. holds a rosary The marriage as he and others battle is a familiar protest against one for McCoy, who a gay “marriage” bill that the spearheaded ethnic Maryland State outreach in House voted on California during in Annapolis, the successful Md.
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in support of traditional marriage. “Not all NFL players think redefining marriage is a good thing,” Birk wrote. “Same-sex unions may not affect my marriage specifically, but it will affect my children—the next generation. Ideas have consequences, and laws shape culture.” Birk is a native of Minnesota, where voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Marriage proponents are also hoping to win in Maine and Washington, two liberal-leaning states. Traditional marriage has a -
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MISCELLANEOUS: I Bans the death penalty .......................................................... California I Enacts harsher penalties for human trafficking .......... California I Repeals ban on public funds used for religious purposes.................Florida I Bolsters gun rights ....................................................................................... Louisiana I Legalizes physician-assisted suicide .......................................Massachusetts I Requires voters to show photo identification ............................... Minnesota I Requires citizenship proof to receive state services ..................... Montana I Bans affirmative action ............................................................................ Oklahoma I Requires ⅔ vote of people or legislature to raise taxes ...........Washington
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Proposition showdown in . He draws from that experience when he says he’s not overly worried about being down percentage points (-) in the polls entering October. He said many people have been intimidated into silence on the issue, but they will show up to vote on Election Day. “If the election were held today, we are pretty certain we would win,” he said. McCoy and his troops have kept a lower profile leading up to October, but plan to unleash a public ad campaign to explain the issue to voters in the weeks leading up to the election. In Maryland, same-sex couples already have the same legal rights as married couples, and Republicans offered domestic partnerships earlier this year only to be turned down. Homosexual activists want nothing less than a redefinition of marriage, and they will get it starting in January if voters uphold the law.
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record when being put before voters, but that record will face a serious test in November, and McCoy says all four states are equally important. The biggest challenge for the Maryland Marriage Alliance is overcoming apathy among supporters. The group is crisscrossing the state, meeting with pastors and voters like those gathered at Wayland Baptist Church. Dee Powell, director of outreach for the Maryland Marriage Alliance, urged the small crowd to recognize they can make a difference. “We need you to dig deep,” she said. “We’re -, and I don’t want Maryland to be the first state not to vote for marriage.” McCoy, married for years, said he loses sleep trying to think of new ideas to reach people. “If all the Christians would register and vote, we could change every election,” he said. “We have to give people a sense of urgency.” A
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Not forsa I released condemned pastor Youcef Nadarkhani from prison on Sept. , Mervyn Thomas of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) compared the moment to an account in Acts : As church members prayed for Peter’s release from jail, the apostle (delivered by an angel) suddenly knocked
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on the door. The Christians were so surprised they nearly didn’t answer. “I believe it’s no coincidence that Pastor Nadarkhani was released as people around the world were praying for him,” Thomas told supporters. “What a result … and such an unexpected one at that!” The unexpected result evoked
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celebration around the world for the 32-year-old pastor, husband, and father of two sons. Nadarkhani had spent more than 1,000 days in a prison in Rasht, and faced a death sentence for apostasy against Islam. Millions supported him through a Twitter campaign, and Christians worldwide prayed for his freedom.
SHOW OF SOLIDARITY: Christians mourn religious violence in Orissa and other parts of India.
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BEING In a letter published TESTED: 11 days after his release, Nadarkhani Nadarkhani thanked (top); Irani supporters and assured (bottom). them: “The Lord has wonderfully provided through the trial. … As the Scripture says: ‘He will not allow us to be tested beyond our strength.’” Less than 130 miles away, another Iranian pastor faces a severe test of strength: Behnam Irani, 41, is serving six years in a prison in Karaj for socalled actions against the state. His alleged crimes include pastoring a group of converts and sharing his Christian faith with Muslims. The pastor is languishing. In midAugust, CSW reported that Irani was suffering from severe bleeding due to a
n Iran, advocacy groups aren’t the only ones reporting Christians’ suffering. In late September, two human-rights experts from the United Nations reported that Iranian authorities were intensifying their clampdown on evangelical churches. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, estimated that Iranian authorities arbitrarily arrested and detained more than 300 Christians since June 2010. Shaheed said “scores of Christians” remained in jail “for freely practicing their religion.” Advocacy groups believe that number is far higher. CSW reported a “steep rise” in persecution against religious minorities in Iran during 2011 and
2012. The list of developments include: “waves of arrests and detentions; regular raids on church gatherings; harsh interrogations; physical and psychological torture (including demands for recantations of faith and for information on the identities of fellow Christians); extended detentions without charge; violations of due process; convictions for ill-defined crimes or on falsified political charges; and economic targeting through exorbitant bail demands.” The group also noted “a proliferation of anti-Christian rhetoric from senior official figures” and “a systematic infiltration of church networks” by Iranian authorities. Though Iranian authorities officially recognize some churches, other congregations meet off the grid in smaller house churches. Mansour Borji—an Iranian pastor based in London—says one Iranian Christian describes the house church movement “like a James Bond movie—how they are careful about their communication, how they switch meeting places, how they turn off their phones, how they take out their SIM cards.” Still, Borji—who leads the 300member Iranian Christian Fellowship in London and works with advocacy group Article 18—says troubles plague both house churches and official churches. He attributes the growing aggression to a public speech in October 2010 by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The country’s top Muslim cleric declared that Iran’s enemies were spreading Christianity to weaken Islamic society. Three months later, Morteza Tamadon—the governor of Tehran— said evangelical Christians had inserted themselves into Islam “like a parasite.” Since then, Borji says arrests of Christians have “skyrocketed.” Many don’t share their cases publicly because of threats by Iranian authorities. Borji says the harassment includes authorities forcing churches to close, confiscating church property, closing mid-week Bible studies, shuttering Sunday schools, and confiscating
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stomach ulcer and a colon disorder. Sources told the group that prison authorities beat the pastor during the early days of his imprisonment, and that he now struggles to walk. By late September, the Minnesotabased Present Truth Ministries reported that officials had denied Irani adequate medical care (including potentially live-saving surgery), and that the pastor was vomiting blood. Without intervention, advocates fear the husband and father of two young children could die within a few months. Irani’s plight underscores a painful reality in dozens of countries worldwide: For every Nadarkhani released, many more remain imprisoned or persecuted for their Christian faith. That reality offers particular potency to the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church—slated this year for Nov. 4. On the eve of the annual event, it’s challenging to grasp the persecution hounding many Christians worldwide. Indeed, Open Doors USA—a Californiabased advocacy group—publishes an annual list of 50 countries with the worst records on persecution. But in a brief look at a handful of countries, a common theme emerges: In a year of answered prayers, the suffering remains steep, the need for prayer remains sharp, and the faith of many persecuted Christians remains strong.
and destroying Bibles and other Christian literature: “It’s an attempt to suffocate the church.” Despite the worsening crackdown, Borji says that house-church networks report growth, including increasing numbers of converts. If Bibles aren’t available, some churches rely on satellite television for Christian teaching. And they also welcome visitors, despite the risk of spies, he says: “Many people do not let that fear paralyze them.”
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ear also isn’t paralyzing some Christians in Syria, perhaps one of the scariest places on earth over the last 18 months. A brutal civil war has pitted rebel groups against the regime of dictator Bashar alAssad, and has killed as many as 30,000 people. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 21,000 of the dead were civilians. Some Christians—who once enjoyed a measure of freedom in Syria—have reported growing aggression by militant groups that may view them as loyal to Assad (see “Syria’s pain,” Sept. 8, 2012).
In early October, a Syrian pastor wrote an email to Open Doors USA describing the deteriorating situation for both Christians and non-Christians. He described millions forced from their homes, many sleeping outdoors, others mourning the loss of loved ones, and refugees living without access to shelter, clean water, power, food, and medical care. “I can cry like Nehemiah because the walls of our cities are burnt and the people in great trouble and disgrace,” the pastor wrote. “I can weep like Jeremiah because of the intensity and the spread of evil. I can mourn like David because of the indiscriminate brutal killing of innocent people, children, women, elderly, youth.” But the pastor said despite the dangers, churches remain determined to extend the gospel and to offer aid to neighbors as they’re able: “While we can see and sense the evil powers spreading a dark cloud over the country, closing the door for the light of hope, we still trust our all-sovereign God ‘who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ.’”
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PROTEST: children and learnCoptic Christians ing about each march for equal family’s needs. rights after A nearby learnMuslims burn a church. ing center helped Christian children develop reading skills, and offered critical nutrition in a region where residents earn small bits of money by selling garbage. One weekday morning, I visited with an SC nurse as he cleaned out the ears of a small girl and nursed open wounds. “This is probably a first for her,” he said before giving her a clean pair of pink flip-flops. The work continues despite the difficulties in the country. The group’s founder—known as “Mama Maggie” across Egypt—didn’t dwell on the uncertainties during an interview shortly after she washed a steady stream of street children’s feet this spring. “Every ministry has its challenges—serious ones. But greater is the One who is in you than the one who is in the world,” she said. And she noted that Christians in Egypt have known suffering before:
—For resources on this year’s International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, persecutedchurch.org offers a list of organizations with helpful information
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During recent protests in Tahrir Square over the offensive film Innocence of Muslims, demonstrations reached Kasr el Dobara, the largest evangelical church in the Middle East. Though no worshippers were inside, staff and other workers donned gas masks during a hail of gas bombs outside. In an email interview, assistant pastor Nagi Said suggested the attack was spillover from the larger demonstrations, and not initially directed at the church. Still, he confirmed that the gas attacks lasted into the early hours of the next morning, though no one was hurt. In other parts of Cairo and beyond, Christian persecution takes a more systematic form: For example, thousands of Christians live in grinding poverty in the city’s garbage districts, with little chance to progress. Christian groups like Stephen’s Children (SC) continue to work with the poorest Christians in the city, as I saw this spring during a visit to the destitute garbage village of Helwan. SC workers went door-to-door in a neighborhood of shacks and single-room homes with dirt floors, sharing Bible stories with
M E, Christians are taking their turns at service despite immense pressures and violence. Every Sunday morning, Christians across northern Nigeria return to churches, despite regular attacks by a vicious Islamic group that often massacres dozens at a time. The group has demanded that Christians leave the region or face extermination. In Sudan, Christians are still fleeing aggression by their own government in a campaign that has killed thousands. In Pakistan, Christians are waiting to hear the fate of Rimsha Masih, a -year-old girl who initially faced a possible death sentence for allegedly burning the Quran. (A police investigation reported that a Muslim cleric framed the girl.) And in India, the Evangelical Fellowship of India reports relentless persecution against Christians in northern regions, particularly Orissa. The organization reported a series of beatings and severe harassments against Christians and pastors by Hindu mobs during the month of September. The list could continue, but groups promoting the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church emphasize that prayer is an invaluable help to Christians facing serious challenges. “The first thing that people in this situation ask for isn’t activism or advocacy,” says Iranian pastor Borji. “It’s prayer.” Borji says Christians often ask for protection against violence, but they also ask for prayer to remain faithful under pressure, and the ability to continue their service. Jerry Dykstra of Open Doors USA agrees. “They don’t necessarily pray for the persecution to go away,” he says. “They pray for faith that is unwavering.” A
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WORLD sent reporters to visit charity clinics across the country. Their job: to describe the existing healthcare safety net for the uninsured. As we reported in the Sept. issue, our writers visited clinics in a dozen states and talked to doctors at many more. Our reporters uncovered four common themes: Create networks of care, change patient behavior, recruit volunteers, and find freedom from bureaucracy. The September issue included stories about networks of care and bureaucracy. In the pages that follow, you will read how clinics recruit volunteers and undertake the slow, crucial work of changing patient behavior. When we began our research, we planned to focus on privately funded charity clinics. But in the course of their research, our reporters discovered that in many urban and rural areas, where many people qualify for Medicaid and Medicare, faith-based Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) allow Christian doctors to provide compassionate care while working within an often frustrating system. Dr. David Kim, founder of Beacon Health Center on Staten Island, acknowledges the red tape FQHCs face, but he says those challenges do not negate the calling we “have received from God to be a ‘faithful presence’ in that world, even as Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in theirs.” He says many Christian FQHCs receive local and national recognition for the quality of care they provide, adding, “Even in the darkness, God is allowing us in the FQHC world, and those serving in other darker parts of our country and world, to be bearers of His light.”
As we wait for election results to determine the future of Obamacare, charity clinic leaders do not have a clear picture of what the “Affordable Care Act” means for their organizations, but they know it will not eliminate the problem of uninsured individuals. Wake Forest law and public health professor Mark Hall says that even after the act goes into effect, million to million people who are now uninsured will remain uninsured. Undocumented immigrants will be excluded from coverage under the law, and legal immigrants in the country fewer than five years are also uncovered. The same goes for some middle-class individuals who do not qualify for subsidies but have a hard time affording premiums. It’s also not clear what millions of individuals will do if their companies drop their current insurance plans. Pat White at West Virginia Health Right says many of her clients live day by day, and the requirement to pay a penalty, whether or ,, will not lead them to sign up. Many of them also won’t sign up for Medicaid because they don’t want the government in their business. As long as the law requires people to fill out applications to enroll (rather than an automatic sign-up), they won’t. Healthcare just isn’t a priority, and thinking about it before they get sick would require “breaking a habit of how they have received healthcare.” Hall thinks free clinics and Project Access–type referral networks might have to start offering services on a sliding scale (rather than for free): Donors and volunteers, he suggests, will not want to provide free care to middle-class individuals, HEALTH DISTRIBUTION: and it will seem fairer if A patient has blood they pay something for taken at Shepherd’s those services. A Clinic in Baltimore.
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Volunteer doctors, nurses, and dentists fill a crucial role in providing healthcare to the needy, especially when licensing and liability laws provide for their needs + by SUSAN OLASKY with reporting by Tiffany Owens, Christina Darnell, and Kira Clark
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James Pugh wears a white lab coat on Mondays and Tuesdays when he volunteers at Charlotte Community Health Clinic (CCHC). The lean, white-haired doctor says his father practiced medicine for years, “so I have another six years until I match him.” In his regular practice he saw elderly patients struggling with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Now he sees younger patients with epilepsy, back problems, and multiple sclerosis. Like many physician volunteers, Pugh became involved with CCHC because another doctor asked him to. He has continued because he finds the work rewarding: “Everyone is super nice, and the patients are very appreciative. Everyone feels like they are doing good.” Without volunteers like Pugh, the dozens of free and charitable clinics TIME TO GIVE: Pugh at CCHC. our reporters visited—some with hundreds of volunteers, some with a few—could not operate. According to the Kellogg Foundation, almost percent of care to the uninsured is provided by private physicians: More than , doctors provide at least some charity care. Christian belief
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motivates some of them, but others just want to give back. Dr. William Grimes, director of RotaCare in Bellevue, Wash., a secular clinic funded by the local Rotary clubs, says, “Most doctors inherently want the ability to give help to people who need it. We just provide the infrastructure.” All he had to do to recruit volunteers was put up a few fliers at the major hospitals. RotaCare’s weekly Saturday clinic depends on about volunteers who come once every four to six weeks.
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H I, known for its golf courses, miles of oceanfront beaches, and restaurants, is a desirable place to retire. When Dr. Jack McConnell retired there, he expected to play lots of golf. But the co-inventor of Tylenol soon tired of the game. As he drove around the island, he noticed pockets of poverty. When he picked up hitchhikers, he’d ask where they went for medical care. He discovered that the island’s many employed but uninsured service workers—the people who tended golf courses, staffed hotels and restaurants, and made Hilton Head a nice vacation or retirement destination—weren’t getting care at all. Motivated by Christian faith and compassion, McConnell decided to do
something about that. He explained to the Savannah Morning News, “My father and my mother together taught me the value and the joy of a deep faith in Christ. They are my inspiration.” McConnell also mentioned Dr. Albert Schweitzer, “an inspiration to anyone in the healthcare field to go out and help those who had no access to healthcare.” McConnell recruited retired doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals to start the first Volunteers in Medicine clinic as a part-time, walk-in clinic. Now, years later its campus provides behavioral health services, a dental clinic, and healthcare across specialties. Volunteers in Medicine staffer Ginger Allen says volunteers hear about the clinic from friends. They volunteer because they see the vast need and have a skill that can help meet that need. Eager to keep up with their professions, even after they retire, volunteers also like the camaraderie of being with other medical professionals. The typical volunteer comes in once a week, although some people volunteer seasonally when they are on the island. A further draw: They don’t have to bother with the business of medicine. No insurance, no billing codes. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, America
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A M Association on its website has a listing by state of licensing provisions and liability laws for senior physicians who want to volunteer their services. Laws vary greatly from state to state, but one trend is clear. Blue states like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia are more likely to make “no provisions for volunteer or retired” in licensing, and “no provisions for non-emergency volunteer or charity medical care” in liability law. Malpractice concerns affect active physicians also. Hospital employees may not have insurance that covers them outside the hospital. Even
physicians who carry their own policies worry that rates might go up if a patient from a free clinic sues them. Even when states offer immunity from civil liability, some doctors are skeptical—especially when a law is untested. Many clinics provide malpractice insurance for their doctors, but it isn’t cheap. Hope Clinic in Ypsilanti, Mich., pays , a year for malpractice insurance even though Michigan has a law offering volunteers immunity. Washington state purchases liability coverage for retired doctors “who provide gratuitous care at approved clinics.” But as the AMA website makes clear, the state will only purchase insurance up to “the extent of the funds provided for this purpose by the legislature.” Last year, threatened budget cuts in Olympia caused Diane Steward of Puget Sound Christian Clinic, whose volunteers make it the program’s biggest user, to sound the alarm. Steward wrote on her blog that if the program is eliminated, “- of our volunteers will need to resign because they will not have malpractice insurance. Clearly, we will have to reduce clinic hours if that happens!” She said the program saves the state “millions of dollars in health care costs that otherwise would be absorbed by hospitals and an already overburdened health care system.” The Federal Tort Claims Act has provided liability coverage to health professionals volunteering at charity clinics since and “Obamacare” expands the coverage to staff and board members. Clinics must apply and go through a rigorous privileging process for each volunteer. The government then “deems” those volunteers public health service employees, so if patients sue they are suing the federal government. Many clinics don’t apply for the coverage because the application
process is complicated. One requirement—that clinics can’t accept third-party payments from insurance or government programs—rules out clinics like West Virginia Health Right, which participates in a federally funded mammogram and cervical cancer screening program.
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- doctors take the radical step of moving into poor neighborhoods and working full-time at Christian Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve them. Dr. Joey Patrick works at the Orange Mound clinic, which is part of Christ Community Health Services in Memphis, Tenn. The clinic is in a poor, percent African-American community with a reputation for gangs and drugs. His introduction to it came when he made a wrong turn and ended up there. “It was really scary. People came out and stared.” His oldest daughter cried, and a policeman pulled them over to give directions for getting out.
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faces a doctor shortage. As the country’s population grows and gets older, demand for health services will grow. That trend will intensify as the newly insured (as a result of “Obamacare”) seek doctors and the free preventive and diagnostic tests the law promises. Meanwhile, one-third of doctors are or older and will retire over the next decade. These older doctors tend to work longer hours than newcomers to the profession, so as they retire the gap will grow. Even with more doctors in training, supply won’t keep up with increasing demand. But what if many doctors in that new pool of retirees volunteered their skills? That would help close the gap, especially for the poor who are most likely to have trouble getting in to see a doctor. Concern about potential liability holds back some volunteers. Ginger Allen says in the early days of the Hilton Head Volunteers in Medicine clinic, potential volunteers asked, “What would happen if something went wrong?” Since many of them were licensed in other states, could they even volunteer in South Carolina? McConnell took those concerns to the legislature, which passed a law providing for a special volunteer license available to medical professionals from any state or Canada. South Carolina also passed a law granting immunity from civil liability to any licensed healthcare provider who provides voluntary uncompensated medical care.
income to do that. That’s what motivated me to step out and give back.” She says clinic volunteers appreciate not having “to figure out the cost for that visit and fill in a lot of paperwork for that visit, compared to a private office. … Nice not to have to worry about making money. Nice not to have to worry about the overhead.”
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, especially those close to universities and medical schools, also rely on students as volunteers. Chris Catadal, now , was a -year-old college student waiting tables in Oregon when Dr. Bob Sayson came in for some shrimp fettucine and white wine. Sayson told Catadel about a Christian medical clinic he had founded in a dilapidated AMONG THE POOR: and graffitied building in Now Patrick and his Mary Scott, left, one of Portland’s transient family live in the listens as Amber neighborhoods. Since the neighborhood, where they Hitchcock, right, offers free legal advice at clinic offered on-the-job bought a house a short walk the Orange Mound training for volunteers and from the clinic. He plays Community Center. Catadal was trying to get basketball with neighborinto nursing school, he hood kids, who also come decided to follow up. to his house for homework help, Catadal soon was embedded in a dinner, and Bible study. Patrick says real-life crash course in medical living in the neighborhood allows him terminology. He had to sharpen his to provide better medical care. Spanish and listen when patients The Greenville (S.C.) Free Medical “poured out their heart and soul”: It Clinic has about doctors, including was uncomfortable, but “a good kind of specialists and dentists, who volunteer uncomfortable.” With that volunteer quarterly, allowing the clinic to see experience serving as a door opener to , patients a year—treating colds to professional school, Catadal today is a cataracts. Dr. Pam Snape, the clinic’s registered nurse at Portland Veteran volunteer medical director, started Affairs Medical Center. He says volunteering when the clinic opened a volunteering opened his eyes to great quarter-century ago. She was the only needs and prepared him to be the woman in her medical school class in hands and feet of Jesus for veterans , and felt fortunate to be a doctor suffering from post-traumatic stress and have the chance to give back. She disorder and depression. remembers growing up in a lowerCollege students who want to go to income family and watching her dental school are a dependable source mother struggle to pay for medical of volunteers at the Seattle Union care: “We didn’t go as often as we Gospel Mission Dental Clinic should because we didn’t have the
(SUGMDC). Fifteen to students per month volunteer at the clinic in the basement of the Gospel Mission, receiving in return training, experience, and a leg up in the dental school admissions process. The University of Washington accepts students a year into its dental school, drawing from a pool of ,-, applicants. One year volunteers from SUGMDC got in. Last year six did. The Gospel Mission dental clinic is not fancy. It has three mismatched dental chairs: Dentists use two for doing extractions and fillings, and a hygienist doing cleanings uses one. The clinic has an X-ray room, a sterilizing room, and a break room. Juanita Banks has been the clinic’s only paid staff member since she started working there in . She says it has always been difficult to get dentists to volunteer, but recruiting the first one was the hardest. Some were nervous about volunteering at a mission clinic until they saw that the clinic was professionally run with up-to-date equipment. Seventeen years later, finding enough volunteers is still a month-tomonth challenge. Banks keeps track of the schedule on a big desk calendar, using yellow to designate when a doctor will be at the clinic and orange to signify the presence of a hygienist. Some nursing programs require students to volunteer in free clinics as part of their training. Nurse practitioner Martha Brinkso began volunteering at Charlotte Community Health Center when she was in graduate school. As an experienced ICU nurse, she feared that volunteering at a free clinic “might be boring, but I was wrong.” Now she works at the clinic full-time, her salary paid for by contributions: “I have never worked such long hours in any job I have had,” she said. “But it’s the most satisfying type of work.” Doctors or nurses who feel called to serve the poor, and have a sense of what that means, are much more likely to practice medicine in underserved areas, says Steve Noblett of the Christian Community Health Fellowship: “If a Christian student does a rotation in a solid, well-run Christian clinic, that student stands a very high chance of eventually caring for the poor, either domestically or abroad.” A
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SPOTLIGHT ON SEATTLE
A diverse mix of clinics provides care to a diverse city + by KIRA CLARK
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to nationalities whose members speak over dialects ranging from Taishanese to Swahili. But some diversity is troublesome: Seattle is a global medical center, yet neighborhoods in Rainier Valley, five miles from the -story Columbia Tower downtown, share the same health status as communities in Africa. For the one out of Seattle residents who is uninsured, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs—see “Calling the Shots,” Sept. ) and charity clinics provide a mix of coverage. Let’s take quick looks at three: Country Doctor Community Health Center, Swedish Community Specialty Clinic, and Puget Sound Christian Clinic.
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from Country Doctor—in a neighborhood of small one-story houses, some with fresh paint and others with grass growing through chain-link fences—to Swedish Community Specialty Clinic takes minutes and goes from graffiti to glam. Patients ride a silver elevator to the upper-level, ,-squarefoot clinic, where local specialists offer free specialty care, including cardiology and general surgery to uninsured people referred by Project Access Northwest (PANW). Director Tom Gibbon says some patients walk into the waiting area, which looks like a page from a design magazine, and walk out thinking they are in the wrong place. Patients wait in soft leather chairs.
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D, an FQHC, sees Medicaid/Medicare patients and also the uninsured who pay on a sliding scale. A potted vine hanging from the ceiling, and a nurse wearing a floor-length denim skirt, are part of its funky vibe: One June morning, a young hipster couple in skinny jeans and gauge earrings, a Hispanic mother cradling a newborn, and a bald, wrinkled woman in bottle-rimmed glasses wait to be seen. A gentleman in his s, sporting a gray top hat and an orange tie-dyed shirt, seems at home. The clinic’s informality puts its immigrant and student population at ease, and the patients keep coming: Each year Country Doctor logs about , patient visits, relying on a paid staff and medical trainees. Country Doctor could become even busier under Obamacare as more people qualify for Medicaid. Even now patients wait for appointments, something they complain about on websites like Yelp. One night a month Country PATIENTS KEEP COMING: Country Doctor Doctor holds a free clinic for executive director and co-founder Linda McVeigh; Dr. Rich Kovar with a patient at PSCC (right). street kids: They won’t come
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Exam rooms have views of Seattle that rival those from the Space Needle. Gibbon says the fancy decor is about dignity: He wants the free clinic to feel as nice as any regular clinic at Swedish Hospital, and notes that doctors are more likely to volunteer in a good-looking place. The personnel are as striking as the decor, according to patient Darlene Alcaylea, who received a hip replacement at the clinic: “It was really hard for me to ask for charity. ... Everybody there, they were like angels. ... You can tell when someone is phony or from the heart. To me they are heroes.”
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’ Good Samaritan Health Center sits on a hill in a modern, . million white building that’s wildly different from the rundown tire shops and soul food joints surrounding it. The road leading here is narrow and lined with weeds and construction cones. Inside, full-time staff physician David Derrer moves through one of his typical days, with scheduled appointments before noon. “I’ll probably work through lunch,” he says, while making notes on a patient’s file. He steps into a room and greets Kirk, a young African-American man who recently lost his job and home. Kirk lives at a local homeless shelter until things get better. With high blood pressure, he can’t get work as a truck driver. “Are you still smoking?” Derrer asks. Kirk nods: “You got any meds for that? You know, to quit?” Derrer looks at him: “Are you ready to quit?” Kirk chuckles and looks down, shaking his head. Derrer pats his arm. “I’ll give you medicine when you’re ready.” Then he prays with him: for the blood pressure, for the need to quit smoking, and for work. Sharon, a middle-aged AfricanAmerican woman, is one of the patients who has changed. She carries
a quart-sized plastic juice bottle full of water wherever she goes, but she didn’t used to. Six years ago she first came to the clinic with unmanaged diabetes. She had been caring for her daughter with cerebral palsy, leaving no time to take care of herself. Without insurance, she had no way to pay for her regular medical care. Doctors at Good Samaritan taught her the importance of exercise, nutrition, and drinking plenty of water. Sharon now exercises more and eats better. Since her daughter’s recent death, she has let some of her new habits go, but she plans to go back to them. During her daughter’s final days, Sharon says she found comfort and help from her doctors at Good Samaritan. She still seems surprised that one doctor took her hands and prayed with her: “How many doctors you know take a personal stand with you?”
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behavior: That’s a crucial challenge for clinics serving poor and uninsured patients. Many are overweight and suffer from chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease brought on by stress and bad habits—smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, and poor diets. These patients frequent hospital emergency rooms, which aren’t designed to treat chronic disease.
Charity clinics have increasingly stepped into that gap. Shepherds Clinic in Baltimore offers relationshipemphasizing wellness programs, focusing on long-term rather than short-term change. Shepherds, which HELPING THEMSELVES: A patient visits Shelter Health Services in Charlotte, N.C.
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sits on a knoll surrounded by bright pink rose bushes, has walls painted in variations of yellow, blue, and green. Jessica, the brown-haired receptionist, greets patients as they walk in, calling some of them by name as they approach the desk. Located in a rough section of Baltimore, Shepherds serves “a
stressed-out population.” The surrounding neighborhood has record high rates of homicide and hypertension, statistics that form a powerful contrast with Shepherds’ bulletin boards that advertise the clinic gardening club, yoga classes, and healthy eating and cooking workshops.
The clinic’s working poor patients don’t have insurance. They make too much money for Medicaid, so if they didn’t come to Shepherds, they’d be using the local emergency room. Executive director Jack VandenHengel says the clinic’s patients are focused on paying rent, avoiding eviction, and keeping utilities on: “People come here
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patients repeatedly before they ever see a doctor. The program kicks out patients who miss more than two appointments: “We want them to make us part of their team. To help them, they have to play by the rules.” Some patient populations are more difficult to reach and teach. Shelter Health Services, a clinic on the grounds of a Charlotte women’s shelter, deals with many homeless women. One patient, Theresa, came to Shelter Health Services to get a glucose meter to help her manage her diabetes. Lisa Bishop, clinic manager and R.N., warns Theresa that her diabetes demands careful behavior such as not walking around barefoot and having a doctor clip her toenails to prevent infection. “Did they go over dietary guidelines with you?” Bishop asks. Theresa shakes her head no, so Bishop proceeds to tell her the foods she needs to avoid. Most people think of cookies and desserts, she says, but watch the potatoes, corn, and bread. Bishop then grabs a meter out of her desk and scoots her chair over until she is inches from Theresa. She counts out test strips, places them in a small black bottle, and says, “This will last you for days. Let me show you how to use it.” As Theresa watches, Bishop clicks a small needle into the device and demonstrates the process step by step. Then she hands the device to Theresa: “Now you try it.” Theresa holds it tentatively between her fingers. She has a hard time getting the needle to click. “It’s OK,” Bishop says. “It takes practice.” Theresa whispers, “I used to watch my mom do this when I was growing up.” About a third of the people staying at the women’s shelter suffer from a chronic disease. Brochures in the diagnostic room cover the most common: diabetes, high blood pressure, HIVAIDS, and TB. Since the clinic works with such a transient group of patients, staff members focus on education, jumping on teachable moments. “Repetition is the key,” Bishop says. The clinic hosts biweekly educational workshops and makes sure they are interactive and use familiar terms. “At the end, we offer HIV testing and get the results in minutes,” Bishop explained. At the clinic’s open forums, women sometimes ask questions like,
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Susan Hildebrant is deep in conversation with a man who wandered into Zarephath Health Clinic in Zarephath, N.J. He didn’t have an actual appointment: He just needed to talk. Hildebrant says part of her job involves talking to people who don’t have friends, family, or other support networks. Sometimes those random conversations open up opportunities to discuss spiritual things. The clinic serves mostly low-income Hispanic families, but it also sees students and anyone unemployed and without insurance. Sometimes patients see the doctor. Sometimes they see both counselor and doctor. Hildebrant explains to patients basic stuff: why it is important to eat healthier food, how to budget, and what to cook. She says her patients see fast food as a better meal than banana and peanut butter, which costs about the same but is healthier. Hildebrant says many Hispanic diabetics find it hard to limit their intake of rice, a cultural staple. The process of behavioral change can be painfully slow. It requires cultural understanding. Wayne Aoki, mental health director at Los Angeles Christian Health Center, says the responsibility for change belongs to patients, not doctors. Attempts to badger patients into compliance never work: “In some ways it’s like you are laying out a cost-benefit analysis for your patients.”
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impoverished people, healthcare isn’t a priority. They aren’t in the habit of making and keeping appointments. That can be a problem when specialists agree to see a patient for free. No-shows waste specialists’ time, making the doctors less likely to offer charity care in the future. Project Access NW, a program that matches needy patients with specialists in Seattle and its environs, helps people become good patients. “Teaching responsibility is integral to our success,” executive director Sallie Neillie says. Among Medicaid patients, the missed appointment rate is over percent—but at Project Access it is percent, because mentors counsel
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at their wit’s end. Their world is falling apart. … They need a primary care physician who will pay attention to them over time.” The clinic’s staff confronts a fatalistic mentality that asks, “Why would you do anything different if you’re just going to be dead?” That’s where classes about cooking healthy foods, gardening, and exercising fit in: They encourage patients to take off bad habits and put on better ones. Even with all the offerings, the clinic staff can’t force patients to take advantage of the free resources. It often takes months before a patient ventures beyond the examining room to see what else the clinic offers.
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Shelter Health Services rely on teachable moments, but others feature a calendar of classes. Charlotte Community Health Clinic (CCHC) has an education room furnished with black chairs facing a whiteboard and television at the front of the room. CCHC offers classes including exercise for people with arthritis, introduction to diabetes, and how to read nutrition labels.
Patients with chronic diseases come to the clinic every three months for disease management and lab work—services that emergency rooms can’t provide. Angela Williams, , a heavyset woman dressed in a sparkly purple halter top and black leggings, walks across the grassy area behind CCHC. Peering into the seven raised garden beds, she searches for signs of buds, but the young plants aren’t producing blueberries or peppers yet. Williams first came to the clinic five years ago because she had a cold. She was grieving her mother’s death and handling her grief by eating. Nurses at the clinic told her she was at risk of developing diabetes and high
blood pressure because of her weight. It took years for Williams to change her behavior: “It’s very hard. … If it weren’t for this program, I could be dead.” She finally went to the diabetes class, the hypertension class, the diet class, and the exercise class: “Whatever they had, I would take an early lunch and go!” She lost pounds over the past year and credits the clinic. She learned from a nutritionist the size of a proper portion—and holds up an open hand to demonstrate. As Williams learned about nutrition, her family benefited:
“My family knows we are going to have salad three times a week. We have turkey and baked chicken. If we have fried, it will be once a month.” Jill Lipson, a patient education coordinator, set up the clinic’s well-organized calendar of events, including supermarket tours—Spanishspeaking patients tour Compare Foods, and English-speaking patients tour Food Lion. Some of the education programs are limited to specific patients who need special attention, Lipson says: “We have to do it hands-on to really get it.”
BODY AND SOUL: A farmers market at Church Health Center Wellness.
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woo patients through cooking classes. Alene H. is one of a dozen people gathered inside a large class-style kitchen at Church Health Center Wellness in Memphis. Today they’re learning how to make stuffed vinaigrette chicken and a cucumber salad. Alene has attended every cooking class offered over the past year: “I’ve learned to like things I didn’t think I would like.” Squash and artichokes for example: “Now I bake a lot of food instead of frying. Catfish, chicken … you know. I bake it now.” She moves the food around in the skillet. “I use less salt. Sometimes you don’t have to use salt at all.” Linda Stewart, , has lost pounds since coming to the cooking classes. She’s lowered her AC level, which measures blood sugar, from to : “I’ve learned how to cook with in-season vegetables.” She bakes instead of frying and uses more herbs. Many of the women come to the classes for fellowship. Helen, , isn’t as concerned with rapid weight loss as she is with keeping up with her friends. She walks regularly and wants to lower her blood pressure, but for now she’s here for conversation. Julia Brown, , agrees: “The members here drag me to every class,” she says, laughing. She started coming to the Wellness Center after suffering from congestive heart failure. Her doctor said if she didn’t get her heart rate up, she wouldn’t see her daughter graduate from high school. Now, she comes to cooking classes, workout classes, and the gym upstairs where she says friendly trainers work with her to reach goals. So far she’s lost pounds: “I look forward to getting up. I feel healthier.” Barbara Golden, , suffered two heart attacks that initially left her paralyzed from the waist down. You can’t tell that by looking at her now: Thanks to years of therapy at the Wellness Center, she’s learning to cook. She takes recipes home to pass on to her grandson, breaking generational habits in the process. A
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Takesha Leonard sits behind a desk at Jericho Road Family Practice on Genesee Street in Buffalo, N.Y. It’s a clinic with a mission “to demonstrate Jesus’ unconditional love to the whole person.” She wears a stethoscope around her neck, and a long skirt. She also wears very high heels: gray with white letters on them, and has an extra pair of heels, red, shoved under the desk. The -foot--inch Leonard grew up in the Bronx and came to Jericho Road two years ago, where she serves AfricanAmericans, Latinos, Vietnamese, Iraqis, and others. A sign on the front door lists office hours in languages. The Family Practice delivers babies and offers sick care, saving Buffalo residents from going to the ER every time they are sick. The staff also works to prevent chronic diseases like high blood pressure
and diabetes. Leonard convinced Jimmy, an Iraqi client with a convenience store across the street, to sell fruits, vegetables, and grilled food instead of the greasy food that was helping to create more patients. At first only about eight clients came to the practice daily, but then the employees “went door-knockin’.” They learned that neighbors couldn’t afford food, much less brand-name medication. Now Family Practice sees - patients daily. The greatest thing about the work, for Leonard, has been including spiritual help in the practice. She created a form for patients to fill out asking them to comment on their personal health— and she left a box at the BREAKING bottom asking about their DOWN THE spiritual well-being. She WALLS: Patients wasn’t prepared for the arrive at response she received to Jericho the “spiritual” box. Road Family Patients began to flood Practice.
her with their spiritual concerns, and often with the simple request: “Pray for me.” She had no plan for processing people’s spiritual needs. (Yvette, the secretary in the next room, said, “I told you not to make that form!”) Patients started coming for counseling instead of medical problems. Jericho Road CEO Dr. Glick isn’t going to pay her for being a spiritual adviser, but Leonard still endeavors to help the people spiritually. The worst part about it all is the feeling of helplessness and hopelessness: “I wish I coulda done more.” The day I visited, Leonard took a call about a woman living in a shelter with her nine children, who had been bitten by rats. Leonard expects them to come in later this afternoon, although she really doesn’t have time to see them: “You cry, but you have to help them so you can go home and sleep at night.” In the waiting room, the carpet is stained and the white top of the plastic play desk is scribbled all over with crayon. A pregnant mother comes in with two small children, a girl and a boy. She leans against the counter and commands, “Go play.” The girl has stringy blonde hair, wears a ruffled skirt with pink polka dots. She announces that her name is “Ladybug” and also Gabby, then waves three fingers, indicating
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her age, then says, “Mommy, my heart is breakin’.” Wyatt, the boy, moans constantly. He obeys his mother and begins to scoot across the floor on a plastic bike, which he rides backward. “Come over here, I’ll give you a book,” says the secretary from behind the desk. A slim black girl comes in, hair shorn, T-shirt torn (in a manner that indicates artistry rather than poverty). She wears an African wrap around the waist. She draws out an iPhone. She examines her fingernails. A Korean woman in the row of chairs on the left has a toddler boy on her lap. She looks at the point of tears. A slow-moving woman emerges from the hallway containing the exam rooms, and heads toward the bathroom in the waiting room. Finding it occupied, she sighs and takes out a wrinkled tissue. While Wyatt learns to propel himself backward—the strings of his white hair fly up like spaghetti— no one watches. Then the pregnant mom slings Wyatt over her shoulder and tickles his stomach. She hangs him upside down from her lap and his hair falls like Einstein’s and his face looks like a little sun. He laughs. Gabby stares at the black girl from a proximity too near for politeness. But the black girl just falls asleep against the wall. The Korean toddler begins to cry. His mother kisses and kisses and kisses him. In the hallway Takesha Leonard travels between exam rooms, still wearing her high heels.
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What children live by WORLD follows up with mother who, for the sake of her children, made it her mission to get off and stay off welfare by marvin olasky
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Debate about welfare reform usually proceeds high up the ladder of abstraction. Suite-level pundits hurl theoretical thunderbolts and wave statistics. One talented journalist, Katherine Boo, took a different approach when welfare reform became a national reality in 1996. That year in The Washington Post she profiled Elizabeth “Cookie” Jones, a longtime welfare on the right recipient. Boo reported on path: Jones.
her again in 1997, profiled her once more in 2001, and mentioned her in a 2006 NPR interview. Boo met Jones in a D.C. public-housing project because a friend of Jones also on welfare suggested that Jones, 27 and the mother of three elementary-school children by three different men, was making a mistake by going to work. The reason: “Her kids are raising themselves”—and that would ruin them in the long run. Jones agreed to
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WORKING IT OUT: Jones (above) at the police station where she works; Boo (left).
that Elizabeth Jones would have been better off had she stayed on welfare.” Boo responded, “In the long run, I think the struggle may be worth it,” but Jones’ “lack of time is going to have consequences.” Five years later, on NPR, Boo said “the positive benefits that a mother is going to get from work—self-esteem and exposures to mainstream culture, the benefits of higher education—those are real benefits. But family life in the short-term, I think, isn’t very pretty.” Jones’ attempt to escape welfare clearly was stressful, as all transitions to upward mobility, whether individual or national, are stressful. Immigrants to America had it tough. British workers going through industrialization
had it tough. Now, workers in China and India suffer. But Jones, like many others throughout the world, refused to give up. She also disappeared from the press for the next few years, as pundits abstractly discussed the long-term effects of welfare without drilling down into the effect on individual lives. At WORLD we try to operate at ground level, so we tracked down Elizabeth Jones. We learned that she persevered in police work: In January she will have years of service. In she helped to bring to justice a woman eventually sentenced to years in prison for physically abusing her foster son. In Jones helped to bring to justice two D.C. men who were eventually sentenced to more than years in prison for their roles in a fatal shooting. She now works in the Metropolitan Police Department Youth Division, and when WORLD caught up to her was going in to work overtime on her day off. Looking back over the years and thinking about her original decision to go from welfare to work, Jones said, “I knew I had to do something. It’s always been hard—from day one.” For example, because she had come off welfare,
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spend time with Boo so that legislators would come to understand “the stomach-turning choices implicit in that bumper sticker of a phrase “welfare-to-work.” Boo in and documented how Jones found a job but then “faced a choice: Ice the job, reclaim the welfare check, walk the kids home from school. Or keep the job and risk the kids.” Boo wrote that Jones’ mother “had her first child at and went on welfare. Jones had her first at and went on welfare”—but Jones vowed to break that pattern, “or I’ll die trying.” Jones, in short, was a purposedriven heroine facing huge obstacles, including the bad public schools in her poor part of the district. Boo’s implied question: Would Jones’ children die as their mom tried to break that generational pattern? Boo described the children muttering, “scary,” as they walked past old vodka bottles, up a stinkweed path, past one long block “where a man will days later be found murdered in his car.” Jones believed the risk was worthwhile because her children would learn that work, not welfare, is natural. My favorite short story, “What Men Live By,” came from the mind and hand of Leo Tolstoy. In it God sends a compassionate angel plummeting to earth because the angel refuses to take the life of a woman with two little babies: The angel asks how they will live without their mother. Boo, a compassionate writer, was asking that same question when she wrote a new profile of Elizabeth Jones for The New Yorker in . By then Jones had become a police officer, even though her children didn’t like it: “They think she’ll get hurt. She fears they’ll get hurt if she gives it up.” By then Boo, in the words of an interviewer, was “close to suggesting
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her insurance coverage for a short time applied only to herself and not her three children—and during that window one of her sons broke an arm, while another broke a leg. (Yes, going off welfare cost her an arm and a leg.) Her first job off welfare left her with less income than her friend who remained on welfare had—but Jones was looking to the future and doing it for her children. In Tolstoy’s “What Men Live By,” the angel eventually witnesses God’s provision for the motherless babies: When he sees them grown into happy and healthy children because of a compassionate neighbor, he is ready to return to heaven. The story I’ve told here is a secular one, but remember her friend’s belief that Jones’ children would suffer from their mother’s absence after school? Let’s look at the results thus far: Her older son is 25 and a 2011 graduate of Muskingum University. Her daughter, 23, has been in the Navy for four years, is married, and has a son. Her younger son, 22, had some college and is now working. (One problem to note: He is an unmarried father.) Several months ago Jones saw her friend who remained on welfare for the sake of the children, but the two did not talk long because “the vibe wasn’t really pleasant.” Jones says one of her friend’s sons was killed on the D.C. streets. Jones said her own move off welfare helped her children “tremendously. They’re not in jail, they’re productive members of society, and they’re responsible. … I remember being on public assistance and I would have to go and re-certify. I never took them. Not that I was hiding it from them, but that’s not the picture that I wanted them to have when they got older—that this is how things are supposed to be.” A —with reporting by WORLD intern J.C. Derrick
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Dying Leafs
Americans aren’t excited about electric vehicles with short battery lives BY DANIEL JAMES DEVINE
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Millions of Americans may be unaware that a picture of their car’s bumper is stored on a searchable computer database somewhere. Police and private companies throughout the United States are using automatic license plate readers to track suspects, find stolen vehicles, or repossess cars. The readers, often mounted on police cars, can scan , plates a minute and tag them with time and location. The Department of Homeland Security has invested million to help local police adopt the technology. One company, Vigilant Solutions, has about million scans in its private database, according to The Wall Street Journal. Journal —D.J.D.
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I P and are thinking of buying Nissan’s allelectric Leaf car, you might want to think twice. In September, a group of Phoenix-area Leaf owners coordinated a driving test of their models. They found the distance their cars could travel before recharging had decreased as much as percent since the time of purchase. Although a new Leaf can drive more than miles on a single charge (in ideal conditions), a car belonging to one Phoenix driver traveled only . The Phoenix driving test backed up Nissan’s own investigation of seven underperforming Leafs from Arizona. The carmaker concluded the area’s intense summer heat has a degrading effect on the Leaf’s lithium-ion battery modules. Nissan said battery life was further reduced because drivers had put “higher than average” mileage on the cars: about , miles over months. The plummeting battery gauge bars in the Leaf’s dashboard might explain why American enthusiasm for electric vehicles has fallen too. Nissan requires buyers to sign a form explaining that some battery degradation is normal. The company says the Leaf’s batteries should retain percent of their original charge capacity after five years, but some Arizona Leaf owners retained percent capacity after only months. As a “goodwill gesture,” Nissan bought back under Arizona’s lemon law Leafs from two unhappy Phoenix customers, without conceding the batteries were flawed. In the meantime, the company faces a classaction lawsuit from Leaf customers claiming Nissan sold flawed batteries and advertised improper charging methods. Nissan hopes a redesigned battery in its Leaf will boost lagging U.S. sales of the vehicle. The carmaker hoped to sell , Leafs in
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A contentious study questioning GM food integrity needs integrity itself BY DANIEL JAMES DEVINE
University of California, Berkeley, researchers say women with higher levels of the common chemical additive bisphenol A (BPA) in their bodies give birth to boys with slightly overactive thyroids. Their study was the first to measure thyroid function in human newborns and exposure to BPA, used for hardening plastic and lining food cans. Thyroid problems are associated with learning disabilities, but the hormonal affect on the boys in the study was too small to draw conclusions about their health (and the thyroids of baby girls seemed unaffected). The FDA banned BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups in July, and although the agency still considers the chemical safe, it has called for additional research into BPA’s effect on children. —D.J.D.
Obama’s energy Is the energy sector better off after four years under President Barack Obama? The American Energy Alliance, a free-market advocacy group founded in , charts the administration’s record: I Since , regulatory costs in the energy sector increased nearly percent, from . trillion to . trillion. I Gasoline prices doubled from . per gallon in January to . this August. (Gasoline prices had dropped sharply before January . They had been in the to range.) I From to , total energy subsidies doubled, from . billion to . billion. I Wind energy subsidies increased percent, to billion. I Total federal land leased for drilling shrank from million acres to million. —D.J.D.
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few rodents (), and noted that the rats consuming the most modified corn or Roundup didn’t develop the most health problems in the study. They said the lead author, Gilles-Eric Séralini, was a well-known opponent of GM food, and wasn’t releasing all his study data. Further, other similar long-term studies found no health problems. A preliminary review by the EU’s European Food Safety Authority concluded that the French study had “inadequate design, analysis and reporting” and consequently was “of insufficient scientific quality for safety assessments.” Even journalists were irritated, because Séralini and his colleagues took the unusual step of offering advance copies of their study only to reporters who agreed to wait until after the publication date to get comments from other scientists. That attempt at spinning early media reports by stifling any third-party perspective is no way to treat the public: If the link between GM food and disease is real and not a figment, let the science speak for itself.
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A - of rats, genetically modified (GM) corn, and the controversial weedkiller Roundup flung doubts in September on the safety of GM farming. Most doubts returned like a boomerang: Critics pointed to flaws in the French study, and some journalists condemned the authors’ attempt to control media reports. The study involved rats, divided into groups and fed either normal corn or a GM breed of corn produced by agricultural giant Monsanto. Some rats also received corn or water tainted with Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. During two years, up to percent of female and percent of male rats fed GM corn died prematurely, from tumors or other problems. Among rats with normal diets, only percent of females and percent of males died prematurely. Opponents of GM foods hailed the study, while Russia suspended imports of the corn breed pending a review. Other scientists hoisted red flags. They said the control group had too
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Cheer fear
An anti-religion group claims high-school football and Bible verses are an unconstitutional mix BY MARK BERGIN
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a letter to Kountze school district officials advising them to pay no heed to the FFRF’s complaint and comparing the cheerleaders’ banner to a student “making the sign of the cross before taking a test” or football players “kneeling to pray for an injured teammate.” Since the school district is not joining in or controlling the message, “the banners are the religious speech of individual students, which enjoys protection under the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.”
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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has released the most damning evidence to date that former seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing substances and techniques en route to his unprecedented cycling achievements. The evidence includes statements from of Armstrong’s former teammates indicating that he not only engaged in banned activity but was the ringleader of a sustained and sophisticated doping program. Even longtime teammate and friend George Hincapie, whom Armstrong considers “like a brother,” has now provided sworn testimony that Armstrong used banned substances and supplied them to teammates. Armstrong, through his attorney, continues to deny all charges against him and accuses the USADA of a witch hunt. In September, the USADA stripped Armstrong of all his cycling titles dating back to and banned him from the sport for life. The agency has repeatedly entreated Armstrong and other cyclists simply to admit past indiscretions and join efforts to clean up what is arguably the dirtiest sport in the world. Many of Armstrong’s former teammates and competitors have now accepted that responsibility, leaving the once-heralded sports superstar nearly alone in his insistence of innocence. —M.B.
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C Kountze High School in Southeast Texas are used to firing up a crowd. But they never would have guessed that painting a few Bible verses on rally banners would ignite onlookers nationwide. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint with school district administrators in late September, warning that the posters violated the U.S. Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Fearing legal action, school district superintendent Kevin Weldin promptly banned the use of Bible verses in sideline cheers. But the cheerleaders brought legal action of their own, winning a temporary restraining order against the ban as a judge deliberates over a final ruling in the matter. School districts around the country are watching closely to see whether student initiated religious speech is unlawful when present at a school sanctioned event.
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people. The likelihood that they will agree exactly is exceedingly remote, so they DEFYING LOGIC? almost never do. Hiring in New York. Another key factor is the very different margin of error of the surveys. The survey saying the United States created , new jobs—the household survey—has a margin of error of ,. The survey of employers is larger and more accurate. The margin of error in that survey is about ,, and the adjustments in recent months have been upward. The bottom line: We might discover in the months ahead that adjustments will wipe out most of the difference between these numbers. Other factors play minor but statistically significant roles. Every December the BLS uses Census Bureau data to make population adjustments to its data set. That could mean—for example—in a year when Hispanic growth is strong, they could be slightly undercounted in monthly surveys until the annual adjustment is made. And if Hispanics have a higher-than-average unemployment rate (and they do), undercounting them could depress the unemployment rate, especially late in the year.
So could administration technocrats create a conspiracy of tweaks to give Obama good news just a month before the election? That’s highly unlikely. Conservatives understand that large bureaucracies are difficult to manage. That makes them just as difficult to manipulate. But these dramatic discrepancies point to a need for an update in methodologies that have been around for too long. People who follow these numbers closely agree with Robert Oak, the blogger behind “The Populist Economist.” He said, “The BLS doesn’t cook their books and this isn’t an October surprise. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get our juices going over [the] poor monthly labor force statistics.” He said the Department of Labor needs “much better raw data collection methods,” including larger survey sizes and better correlation to other labor data sources, such as W-2s and IRS tax data. The real problem, Oak said, is not conspiracy but complacency: “Data collection needs to be brought into the modern era.”
Romney bounce The day after the Oct. presidential debate, in which Romney performed well, the major stock markets rose. Analysts, including Bob Pisani of financial channel CNBC, said the rise came because of a “long-held belief that a Romney win might be better for stocks.” Those reading stock market tea leaves also pointed to the fact that healthcare stocks, which have risen with Obama’s rise in the polls, moved counter to the overall market and fell on the day after the debate. Conventional wisdom is that Obamacare will keep money flowing into healthcare. The markets have decided Romney’s promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare likely means more competition among healthcare companies.
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W L D announced on Oct. that unemployment had fallen to . percent, bringing it below percent for the first time in months, some Republicans suggested the administration manipulated the numbers to favor Obama’s reelection effort. Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch led the charge with a tweet: “Unbelievable jobs numbers … these Chicago guys will do anything … can’t debate so change numbers.” Welch later admitted he had no evidence of manipulation but maintained the government’s numbers “defy logic.” At first glance, they do. The report said the economy added , new jobs in September, but it also said , more people had jobs. How can that be? The answer is complicated though hardly satisfying, for it highlights major flaws in the way the government gathers data. First, it’s important to know that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) monthly report comes from two surveys, not one: of households and of employers. These surveys measure different things with significantly different methodologies. The payroll survey is like counting the seats on a bus, while the household survey counts the
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sense of historical nuance. Did this not go beyond appropriate criticism (which is due to all fallen humans), Strachan asked, to inciting contempt and even “hate” toward our Christian forbears? Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile of the First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman responded to Strachan at The Gospel Coalition website by asking how Christians can nuance such a sinful institution as slavery: “It wasn’t a nuanced practice. It was bestial and it reduced human beings to beasts of burden.” Propaganda also responded to criticisms of “Precious Puritans” in an interview with pastor and blogger Joe Thorn. To explain the song’s real message, he pointed to its final lyrics, which warn against undue devotion to any popular person, including Propaganda himself. Even people whom God uses powerfully still have serious flaws. The song concludes by noting that “God really does use crooked sticks to make straight lines.”
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T American Puritans recently met contemporary rap music because of “Precious Puritans,” a new song by Christian rapper Propaganda. In this song, Propaganda laments the Reformed evangelical community’s reverence for the Puritans, reminding listeners of the Puritans’ complicity in the colonial slave trade. “You know they were the chaplains on slaves ships, right?” the lyrics say. “Would you quote Columbus to Cherokees? Would you quote Cortez to Aztecs? … It just sings of your blind privilege wouldn’t you agree? Your precious puritans.” The song has generated vigorous disagreement in the Christian blogosphere. Boyce College professor (and rapper) Owen Strachan issued one of the most pointed criticisms of Propaganda. While acknowledging serious problems of racism in the evangelical tradition, Strachan argued that Propaganda was unfairly indicting all the Puritans, with no
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the nation’s first law banning therapy intended to discourage homosexual desires in minors. The law, promoted by gay advocacy groups and sponsored by state Sen. Ted Lieu, lets authorities fine or revoke the licenses of counselors who use what Brown contends are “non-scientific ‘therapies’ that have driven young people to depression and suicide.” Lieu calls the banned practice “psychological child abuse.” He contends that counseling against homosexuality damages children and the state’s compelling interest to stop the practice trumps objections that the law violates constitutional rights. Lieu compares the measure to the state limiting parents’ rights to allow their children to smoke or consume alcohol. Christian and family-rights groups oppose the measure as a violation of free speech, religious liberty, and the rights of families. Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which has filed suit over the ban, says the law is “outrageously unconstitutional,” noting it “makes no exceptions for young victims of sexual abuse who are plagued with unwanted samesex attraction, nor does it respect the consciences of mental health professionals who work in a church.” The Christian legal group Liberty Counsel has also sued the state on behalf of two anonymous California teenagers currently in counseling to help them overcome “unwanted same-sex sexual attractions.” Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, argues that the law places the state between counselors and their clients, forcing counselors “to overrule the will of their clients who choose to prioritize their religious or moral values” above homosexual attraction. —T.S.K.
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Mailbag ‘Into the last laps’
Sept. I’m an old codger and I have not been so concerned about a November election since World War II. This choice for president places individual freedom and the recovery of our Constitution against government domination of our lives, lost world leadership, and lower living standards for all. Never before have the stakes been higher for our families and for the world. —D L. S, Oconomowoc, Wis.
tional standards. As the vice president of the Nebraska State Board of Education, I would like to point out that Nebraska has not adopted the Common Core curriculum. And to bolster her point about federal coercion, Nebraska’s decision was one reason Washington gave for not awarding Race to the Top funds to our state. —M Q, Omaha, Neb.
‘Wastebaskets in heaven?’ Sept. I appreciate the discussion about how much continuity we will experience between this age and the next, but I doubt there will be wastebaskets in the new heavens and earth. This is not because wastebaskets are intrinsically sinful, but because human resourcefulness will be fully redeemed. Just as apple peels help create new soil, God has marvelous designs for recycling the matter He proclaimed to be “good.”
to science itself to discredit Darwin. The utter lack of evidence in the fossil record along with brilliant work from scientists and thinkers such as Michael Behe and Stephen Meyer show that macro-evolution has never been anything more than a paper vampire. —B B, Bel Air, Md.
‘Shallow Courage’ Sept. Megan Basham’s review of Last Ounce of Courage does not do the movie justice. This moving story portrays the erosion of our religious freedom and presents a very real picture of America today. —J H. H, Myerstown, Pa.
‘Powerful inferences’
‘Beyond the flow charts’
It’s a good thing we have wastebaskets here on earth, because that’s where I’m going to throw this column.
Sept. This column was refreshing yet troubling. I agree that the Lord still heals today and speaks to His children through many means. However, the pitfalls of inferring too much from a scriptural passage are legion, especially if done without humility and godly counsel.
—M R, Bucklin, Kan.
—J E, Crystal Lake, Ill.
Sept. I was grateful for your articles on the overpriced American healthcare system and those courageous souls providing alternatives for the uninsured. Our son, a teacher in the Dominican Republic, has no medical insurance but there, unlike here, he will be able to afford knee surgery. I don’t like Obamacare for many reasons, but at least it’s an effort to provide medical treatment for those who can’t afford it.
—C L, Statesville, N.C.
‘One-way dialogue?’ Sept. Thank you for covering the wavering posture of the National Association of Evangelicals regarding theistic evolution. As the church weakens without spiritual renewal, errant philosophies new and old find opportunity to take root. —R MD, Naperville, Ill.
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The danger of inferring is in taking a verse out of context. Not all inferences are wrong, as Peterson shows from her examples, but trusting in “promises” that He did not intend to be promises is not biblical faith. —N M, Mansfield, Ohio
‘Hollow at the core’ Sept. I agree with the premise of Janie B. Cheaney’s column on educa-
—M M, Pompano Beach, Fla.
‘Simple solution’ Sept. The clinics that James Payne endorses have a fantastic way of providing low-cost healthcare for lower-income families. However, he concludes that the government should give these clinics preferential treatment regarding liability. That would be
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just another form of government interference in the market, which is what produced our current mess. —D V, Austin, Texas
‘Megachurch high’ Sept. Thank you to Thomas Kidd for asking the obvious question about whether something “spiritually significant” was happening at the megachurch services in the study. It put the research in proper perspective. People forget that megachurches often start as small churches where something is happening, and that attracts more and more people. —D H, Peoria, Ariz.
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Sept. I was disappointed by Mindy Belz’s column on the mosque controversy in Murfreesboro. She warns about jihadist tendencies and there is nothing wrong with honest questions. But instead of treating Muslims with suspicious mistrust, let’s follow Christ’s example and welcome the aliens among us with love, respect, and hospitality. —C B, Tulsa, Okla.
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‘Untimely disclosures’ Sept. Regarding the article on Mitt Romney’s connections to a medical waste company that handled the remains of unborn children: Pro-lifers know they have only one choice on Nov. . —S L, Colorado Springs, Colo.
‘The ultimate hybrid’ Sept. Each time my family receives a new issue, I try to read it right away. I even hide it from my parents until I finish it. And thank you for your article on homeschooling co-ops. —R C (13), Laurens, S.C.
‘Fatal decisions’ Sept. Some questions regarding the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is intended to control Medicare costs: Would in-utero testing be mandatory? How many treatments for “defective” unborn children would not be covered? Would abortion be an acceptable treatment? Would there be a cut-off age for treatment? Would assisted suicide be an acceptable treatment? —P N, Holtwood, Pa.
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‘Doubting Thomas’ Sept. Perhaps Jefferson was like some politicians of our day who claim to be Christian but whose words and deeds give us reason to wonder. I believe David Barton is trying to balance the historical record distorted by those who deny that most of our Founding Fathers were mostly orthodox in Christian beliefs and not Deists. —A B, Martinsburg, W.Va.
‘He meant what he said’ Aug. I appreciate your magazine, but to imply that President Obama doesn’t believe in individual effort and ingenuity is just political bias. Our culture often is too individualistic, and it shows up in the church. Can’t you just admit that every now and then Obama may have something good to say?
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Clarification At its convention last month the Democratic Party removed from its platform the statement, “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel,” but on Sept. restored it (“A radical Democratic platform,” Sept. , p. ).
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Call it courage Whether called to surrender or fight, you must have courage and seek the Lord
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K Z very bad in the Scriptures, but he would be inconspicuous enough in today’s political landscape. The lesser son of Josiah ruled in crisis times (rather like ours), as the pounding of war hooves could be heard at the gates of Jerusalem. Yahweh’s ancient curse on His people’s perfidy has finally overtaken them, notwithstanding Josiah’s reforms. Zedekiah gives a good imitation of a man on a sinking ship, running back and forth from starboard to port as the craft lists to one side and the other. He and his court are worldly men at heart, giving only formalistic heed to the word of the Lord (Jeremiah :). But after the princes throw Jeremiah in prison, Zedekiah goes to him secretly, asks for prayer (cover all the bases), and inquires whether there is any word from the Lord. The beleaguered prophet replies: “There is. You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon” (v. ). The king’s handlers (no evidence he has a mind of his own) protest the prophet’s freedom and demand his re-incarceration. Milquetoast monarch replies: “Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you” (:). Whereupon a brave Ethiopian court eunuch named Ebed-Melech tells the king that just ain’t right, and procures permission to take men and hoist Jeremiah out of the pit with twisted rags. Next, Zedekiah has Jeremiah brought to an outof-the-way entrance to the temple and promises protection from the pack in exchange for the inside track from God (:-). Jeremiah replies: What difference does it make? Whatever I tell you, you won’t do it anyway. Nevertheless, he reiterates the choice he has explained many times before: If you surrender to the Babylonians, as God commands, you won’t die (which, truth be told, is all the king cares about). Zedekiah blubbers that he is afraid of the Jews who have already gone over to the Babylonians, and he is also afraid of his princes who oppose surrender: What’s a monarch to do? Jeremiah (I imagine him at this point idly filing his nails and not bothering to look up at the king) tells Zedekiah that the only possible way out of his bind is to obey God, and that if he does not, the Babylonian army will overrun Jerusalem even if all that remains of it is wounded men (:).
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Moreover, Jeremiah says, all Zedekiah’s wives and children will be taken and the whole city will be burned and it will be his fault (:-). Looking both ways, Zedekiah sends his divine informer off with strict instructions that if any of the princes hear they have talked, Jeremiah is to say he was pleading not to be sent back to house arrest (:). Well now, the deportation of all his wives and children and the burning of Jerusalem is something to seriously consider, muses the king. On the other hand, he has assurances from Jeremiah that if he does things his own way, he will get to speak to Nebuchadnezzar face to face (:), his royal person will die in peace and not by sword (:-), and he will be fussed over by the nation after he dies (:). That’s not a bad deal, all things considered. Like some fertile crescent Neville Chamberlain, Zedekiah vacillates to the end, till the armies are climbing the walls. He slinks out of town by night and is last seen hiking his skirts and plucking his way through the garden (:). The army overtakes him and the prophecies come true, but not as expected: He does get to see Nebuchadnezzar with his own eyes, but just before Zedekiah gets those eyes plucked out. Sequel: Nebuchadnezzar sends his captain of the guard to Jeremiah, instructing Nebuzaradan to take care of the prophet and to do whatever he asks. For even an enemy ruler knows courage when he sees it, and respects it. Sometimes God says: Surrender. Sometimes He says: Stay and fight. The point of the story is courage and seeking the Lord. Self-protection is to no avail. I still remember Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia under the dome of the Capitol, looking me in the eye and saying, “Where are all the great men?” A
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An electric atmosphere Dissatisfying election? Yes, but we have three good reasons not to despair
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The rich should help the poor, and the Bible condemns the wealthy who oppress them instead. WORLD has shown over the past year that GOP positions look stronger to us on social issues like abortion, on economic questions such as encouraging entrepreneurship, and on foreign policy issues such as defending religious liberty rather than playing into the hands of Islamists. But WORLD is independent: We’ve criticized Mitt Romney and pointed out where both parties fall short in encouraging Christian compassion rather than reliance on either government or secular individualism. This is an unsatisfying election for most Christians. Conservatives who like to vote on the basis of a candidate’s religious beliefs see that both major party candidates are far from biblical Christianity—and voting for a third party candidate is essentially voting for President Obama. Moderates who want to atone in the election booth for America’s racist sins have been there, done that—in . Meanwhile, some liberal Christians know the best way to help the poor is to grow the economy, and they know the Obama administration has failed utterly at that. Those who are pro-life don’t like to hold hands with proponents of safe and legal—not even rare—mass killing of the littlest people. But dissatisfaction is far from despair for three reasons—one patriotic, one psychological, one theological. First, I’m writing this on an airplane heading back to the United States after two weeks in countries now independent but still recovering from their years of slavery within the Soviet Union. God has spared us so much, and our problems are still much less severe than those of other countries. On this Satan-stirred planet we’re still the best house in a bad neighborhood. Second, all Christian citizens should vote and be politically involved, but we cannot control the national results. If we’re depressed, we should remember the teachings of Psalm : “I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul.” Third, the owner of Corner Kitchen wrote about the “surreal” atmosphere in his restaurant the night President Obama came: “When the president comes to your place, the atmosphere is pretty electric.” But when God sends His only begotten Son to die for us while we are yet sinners, how could an atmosphere be more electric? A
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A , Corner Kitchen, sits one block from the WORLD offices in Asheville, N.C. Barack Obama ate dinner there in April , and the eatery owner reported the event on a website page he headlined, “A Night to Remember” (with apologies to Walter Lord). Walter Lord wrote a book by that name about the sinking of the Titanic in . One hundred years ago was also the previous high tide for socialism in America, with Eugene Debs getting percent of the vote as the candidate of the honestly named Socialist Party. Now a president who preaches class warfare presides over a governmental structure that Debs would envy. What’s our nation’s problem? Barack Obama says it’s George W. Bush, who steered our ship of state too close to a giant iceberg. But the problem isn’t Bush, or Republicans generally, or business leaders more generally. In one sense it isn’t even Obama and his cohort. Two millennia ago James explained contemporary American politics: “You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.” Our national debt is trillion because millions of us want what we haven’t paid for and millions of others oppose any new taxes, often on the reasonable belief that the beneficiaries of such taxation will be not the needy but the greedy. The result: Icebergs of entitlement are puncturing our ship. Our foreign policy is a shambles as two presidents have had unrealistic expectations about the ability of democracy to penetrate Islamic political theologies that emphasize centralized control. On economics, President Obama was wrong to say, “You didn’t build that,” and certainly wrong to suggest that “government built it,” but Republicans who say, “I built it alone,” are also wrong. The talents we have come from God’s grace. The health we have comes from God’s grace. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. The poor often covet but the rich often become arrogant.
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