What Would Jesus Cut From Federal Budget?

It’s amazing what you can find in the Bible when you actually read it. In the third chapter of Joel, we find these words: “Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.” But then, about a century later, we read these words from...

Military Spending Tops $1 Trillion Mark

Worldwide military expenditures surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the first time in 2004, according to a report from a respected Swedish research organization. Spending totaled $1,035 billion. The report noted that in “real terms” this amount was only 6...