Forthycause's List: Magazine

• it is crucial to take stock from time to time in order to discern whether it is still necessary to keep up a genuinely Protestant protest against the encroachment of Roman Catholic theology even within evangelicalism.

• ince then Rep. Chris Smith,R-N.J., and other lawmakers have threetimes during hearings asked StateDepartment officials whetherAmericans were in that building. Threetimes those officials have hedged.

  • hedge
    
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• It’s an observation that takes no prisoners. Neitherconservatives nor liberals can take total comfort whilethey wrestle with the implicit accusations so deftlylobbed in both directions.
• After all, which reputation would you ratherchoose to live with: that of someone whose ideas aresound but who is always crotchety, or someone who isgenerally loved by all but whose ideas and values can’tstand the test of time?

  • crotch·et·y
    Irritable.
• thing Russia is not, andVladimir Putin evidentlyyearns not to emulate it (andso promote progress in his owncountry) but to steal its goldeneggs and probably kill the goose in theprocess. If

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