Dennis Prager has a very interesting article today in the National Review Online, entitled “Clinton Won on Nonsense, Trump Won on Substance” (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440665/donald-trump-won-debate-so-hillary-clinton-tried-changing-subject). Once again, I am not commending this article because I love Donald Trump, or even because I will definitely vote for him (I have one month left to decide, as do you). […]
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Are We Missing the Substance?
04 Oct 2016
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Miscellaneous Interesting (and Weird) News
13 Sep 2016
There are all sorts of interesting and disturbing issues and events out there in the news these days, some obscure and others more obvious and with greater implications. Below I simply want to list a few I have been reading about in recent days, and then later perhaps write some longer blogs on some of […]
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It has been pointed out by historians and journalists that political campaigns have always been a little bit or a lot vicious, with a good deal of “over the top” rhetoric. Witness the Adams-Jefferson campaign of 1800. It was pretty overheated on both sides. But I see something different at work now among liberals, or, […]
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The Misdirection of Life
08 Sep 2016
In 2004 the band Straylight Run produced a song called “Existentialism On Prom Night” about a young couple that made the most of evening. “Sing me something soft, sad and delicate, or loud and out of key,” they wrote, “Sing me anything, we’re glad for what we’ve got, done with what we’ve lost, our whole […]
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Power and Its Expressions
06 Sep 2016
We have been here in Washington, DC for about two weeks now and after two prior stays, one in 2013 and another in 1964 (!), I have a few observations about just how big, powerful and even “Messianic” government has become at the federal level, based on what I have seen physically in terms of […]
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The Majority Wins: But What?
06 Aug 2016
Well, the rage now is politics, electoral politics. My colleague Mark Smith has been busy the past few days addressing Wayne Grudem’s qualified support of Donald Trump for president. I am not going there for now. I wanted to say something about the bigger picture of how and why we got to where we are […]
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I think what I am doing in this blog is a bit out of the ordinary. And I offer it with an attitude of trepidation. But nevertheless, I have included in this blog a link to the first chapter of what I envision as an entire book on Christian Worldview. The tentative title is The […]
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Charles Murray has shown a division in the United States between the ordinary citizen and the “rich and/or famous” people (Murray, Coming Apart). The latter increasingly isolate themselves, physically and in other ways, from the rest of us. They also tend to live more extravagant lives, to the point sometimes of trampling on the “little […]
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Our Only Hope in Life and Death
10 Jul 2016
I don’t know how many of you lived in the mid- to late 1960s, during the summers of rioting in large (and sometimes small) cities in America, but this week I have had the same feeling I had then, at age 10-12. It seemed as if our very civilization was threatened, even if it wasn’t. […]
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America weeps. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Five Dallas police officers. The first two men were killed by law enforcement officers, the last five killed trying to secure a protest based on the first two deaths. America searches for solutions. Struggling with words to grapple with such a time as this, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said, “We […]