The College Fix reports that the History Department at George Washington University is changing the requirements for graduation.
The department eliminated requirements in U.S., North American and European history, as well as the foreign language requirement. Thus, it is possible that a student can major in history at GWU without taking a survey course on United States history.
BTW, a bacelor’s degree from GWU will cost you something north of a quarter-of-a-million bucks.
A memorial service for Mrs. Hoge will be held this afternoon at 2 pm in Westminster, Maryland. I hope to get back to a more usual pace of blogging over the next week.
Meanwhile, thank you to everyone for your expressions of sympathy and prayers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ — The U.S. House of Representatives passed and sent to the President’s desk the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (H.R. 1150) yesterday.
The bipartisan bill, authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and co-sponsored by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), will give the Administration and the State Department new tools, resources and training to help counter extremism and the growing persecution of religious minorities globally.
The act seems to give the U.S. government ways to take worldwide religious freedom seriously…or not, depending on the way the winds blow:
There’s more.
When ISIS stops walking people out to be butchered, when churches in the middle east stop blowing up, and when carrying a Bible in Saudi Arabia is okay, then I’ll be encouraged.
UPDATE:
12/14/2016 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Andrew Brunson, a Christian leader of a Protestant church in Izmir, Turkey, was imprisoned by Turkish officials on Friday after 63 days of detention. While details remain scarce, ICC sources say that Andrew has now been transferred from the Harmandali Detention Center to the Sakran 3 Nolu T Tipi Prison near Izmir, despite quiet efforts by the US State Department and Members of Congress to negotiate his release over the past several weeks.
The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin is not having a good day at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. That court has upheld Judge Hazel’s sua sponte dismissal of the Kimberlin v. McConnell, et al. LOLsuit. That’s the suit TDPK filed seeking to have the judiciary intervene in the Senate’s handling of the Merrick Garland nomination to the Supreme Court.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I’ve mentioned that VelvetRevolution.US is running another promotion centered on a reward for information concerning voting machine hacking again this year. One new twist is asking for donations to fund the reward.
Hmmmmm.
Every now and then they pick a new Pope, and the media reacts oddly surprised when the new Pontiff says things which are Catholic. The new Pope seems to have broken that mold, by doing and saying things which are not actually so Catholic at all. But this post isn’t about them, but the stars of a reality show.
The Mainstream Media and militant LGBT activists are unleashing their fury over reports the Gaines family attends Antioch Community Church, a non-denominational megachurch.
“Chip and Joanna Gaines’s Pastor Preaches ‘Homosexuality is a Sin'” – blared a headline on Cosmopolitan.
“Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Church is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage,” screamed a Buzzfeed headline. “Their pastor considers homosexuality to be a ‘sin’ caused by abuse – whether the Fixer Upper couple agrees is unclear.”
What the shiplap, America?! <–That’s a running joke about the show. — Dave
“Their pastor, Jimmy Seibert, is both staunchly against same-sex marriage and a strong believer that homosexuality is a ‘lifestyle’ choice and a ‘sin’,” Cosmo reported.
This bit of news was more than their feeble journalistic minds could handle.
“Given the diversity of Fixer Upper‘s audience, this is a startling revelation that has left many wondering where Chip and Jo stand,” Cosmo reported.
Click on the picture for an essay in the Washington Post which takes a different direction.
I know that the writers for major media outlets figure Christians are something to be studied by anthropologists. They hope someday they (or we) will be studied by archaeologists.
Still, you’d think that in a world busting at the seams with conflict, the idea that these nice looking folks respect the words of their holy book and pastor would be boring.
Unless the publicity is an attempt to pull them down, like the treatment dished out to the Duggar family, or the Palins, or the Robertson family. You wouldn’t think that’s the plan, wouldya?
Heh.
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