Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichรฉs, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today heโd most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an โArms are for Huggingโ sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
Mark SteynMuch of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.
Mark SteynGeneral Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.
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