Wyatt Ciesielka

Eighty years ago, President Herbert Hoover famously promised, "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" if elected.  On the 80th anniversary of that promise, what is our ability to fulfill that pledge for the average American?

It is too easy to be overwhelmed by the statistics and not consider the agony.  It is too easy to dismiss the headlines as something happening "far away."  But today, men, women and children just like you are suffering and dying in Zimbabwe in a hopeless, hellish nightmare. 

December 2 is the anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation as "Holy Roman Emperor."  Was Napoleon just a great conqueror?  Or, was he part of a 2,500-year-old story that weaves its way through Bible history and Bible prophecy and has yet to reach its climactic end? 

Napoleon was crowned at Notre Dame Cathedral on December 2, 1804. His coronation was blessed by Pope Pius VII, who had agreed to take part in the ceremony in exchange for regaining several papal territories, and for the opportunity of converting French citizens back to the Catholic Church.

Your Bible and the Catholic church do not often agree.  However, on the issues of human harvesting and human embryonic cloning, the rest of us should be just as appalled as are many Catholic leaders.

Iceland is a fantastic, mysterious country located on the fringes of the habitable world where geothermal steam wisps slip through rock and ice fissures to escape into the cold blue sky.  Iceland is one of the most advanced and educated nations on the planet and was fast becoming a world-class financial power – until its economy collapsed.  What are the lessons for us?