By Douglas Holtz-Eakin & Chad Miller

Large debt burdens are an important personal financial issue. But students and families are borrowing ever-larger amounts for one reason alone: the exploding cost of higher education. However, the administration now seems reluctant to even acknowledge the basic problem.

By Stan Guthrie

As a senior in high school, I was president of the honor society, but I didn’t know what I wanted to “do with my life.” I did know I wanted to go to college — everyone did — and I figured I could figure it all out when I got to the University of Florida campus. This was in 1980.

After I arrived in Gainesville, I tried a little of this and a little of that — first computer science, then business, and, finally, when I went with my gifts, journalism. Somehow I managed to cram four years of study into five.

Books that have caught my eye.

No Ordinary Marriage: Together for God’s Glory

By Tim Savage

“No Ordinary Marriage is an extraordinary book. What makes this work stand out in an overcrowded marketplace of ‘how to’ books is its compelling vision of marriage for the glory of God. I know of few books on marriage that combine elegant writing, sound doctrine, clear illustrations, and practical advice in equal measure. This is a book on marriage made in heaven. No one, or couple, who reads this book will look at marriage in an ordinary way again.”
-Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

By Mark Steyn

The more obvious explanation of the variable first line in the eternally shifting sands of Obama’s biography is that, rather than pretending to have been born in Hawaii, he’s spent much of his life pretending to have been born in Kenya. After all, if your first book is an exploration of racial identity and has the working title “Journeys in Black and White,” being born in Hawaii doesn’t really help.

By Dan Gilgoff

“The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover ‘women’s health services’ including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the university says.

“We will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life,” the statement says.

By Lee Habeeb

She didn’t see it coming. One day, Oprah Winfrey turned around, and her nationally syndicated show was sliding in the ratings, and her audience was fleeing en masse. And it happened soon after a day she thought was one of the best in her life.

Isn’t that how all the giants fall?

Chuck Colson mentioned The Sacrament of Evangelism on one of his last commentaries, recorded the day before he fell ill. Chuck certainly never lacked for this virtue.

Here is my interview with John Blok of Moody Radio Florida about the new statement by Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, “Hispanic Christian Support of The Biblical Definition of Marriage Is a Matter of Faith Not Politics.”

By Mark Cuban

This is what I see when I think about higher education in this country today:

Until the easy money stopped.

Amen and amen. I just hope that before my kids get to college, the bubble will have already burst.

Books that have caught my eye.

Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

By Vern Sheridan Poythress

In Inerrancy and Worldview, Dr. Vern Poythress offers the first worldview-based defense of scriptural inerrancy, showing how worldview differences create or aggravate most perceived difficulties with the Bible. His positive case for biblical inerrancy implicitly critiques the worldview of theologians like Enns, Sparks, Allert, and McGowan. Poythress, who has researched and published in a variety of fields— including science, linguistics, and sociology—deals skillfully with the challenges presented in each of these disciplines. By directly addressing key examples in each field, Poythress shows that many difficulties can be resolved simply by exposing the influence of modern materialism.