The Obama effect on cookie sales Obama’s favorite cookie when he was in Iowa is suddenly a big hit: Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75…

Well, at least the part of the economy that sells tchotchkes adorned with his image: In most election years, the candidate T-shirt and button market pretty much disappears after the ballots are counted. Not this time. Our next president has become a living, breathing stimulus package for a modest-size group of entrepreneurs who are slapping…

Well, it’s about time! Why the heck did it take them this long to understand that God isn’t a respecter of persons and that we’re all created in the image of God and therefore all have equal worth and value: A fundamentalist Christian University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial…

What is it with German theologians? A Muslim convert hired as a professor of Islamic theology to counter the teaching of extremist Muslims has determined that the Prophet Muhammad probably didn’t exist: When Prof. Kalisch took up his theology chair four years ago, he was seen as proof that modern Western scholarship and Islamic ways…

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