It’s time to revisit the issue of LGBT rights and legislation to protect individuals from prosecution for refusal to provide some service or good to a homosexual or homosexual couple. As many know by now, both Georgia and North Carolina passed legislation that would either restrict public restroom use to biologically determined individuals or would […]
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A Test for “Conscientious Objectors”
19 Apr 2016
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Happy Tax Day (Late)
19 Apr 2016
Below is a chart comparing categories of income tax between 1913 and 2016, published by Americans for Tax Reform. Note the categories labeled “Top Tax Bracket Threshold” and “Family Standard Deduction,” both adjusted in terms of today’s dollars. Our tax liability now begins at 25 times the amount it began at in 1913. Our deduction […]
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Minimum Wage, Minimum Work, Minimum Dignity
11 Apr 2016
California, predictably, has passed a $15/hour minimum wage. New York is likely to. A few cities have done it already. Bernie Sanders wants a Federal wage of $15, while Hillary Clinton wants a $12 wage. And so the issue is once again on the table, at a time when wages are stagnant and unemployment is […]
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Another college basketball season has come and gone, as has another football season. I didn’t watch the NCAA National Championship game but did see the last couple of exciting minutes. As always, basketball is fun to watch as is football. But I also read an article in the National Review Online that caught my eye, […]
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In the aftermath of the latest terrorist attack in Belgium, it is time to evaluate several things. One is the question of how this attack occurred in the first place. The second concerns the will of European nations to deal with terrorism and especially the source of it. Finally, it is also a fair question […]
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Since President Obama has nominated someone for the Supreme Court vacancy, it is tim we took a look at his judicial philosophy. First, a little about him personally and professionally. Judge Merrick Garland was born in Illinois, raised near Chicago, received his law degree from Harvard, one of the usual cast of schools from which […]
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It seems this blog overlaps one just published by my colleague Jeff Haymond. But I will publish mine anyway, since it nicely supplements his. Donald Trump has been saying quite a bit recently about the disappearance of (especially) manufacturing jobs in the South as well as the “Rust Belt,” blaming those lost jobs on the […]
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The “Foolishness” of the Gospel
06 Mar 2016
I had the opportunity to preach on the text of 1 Corinthians 1: 17-31 today, and was reminded myself (as is good for those who preach, lest we begin to think we are immune) that the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, though it seems foolish to the world, which exalts in its so-called […]
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The Trumpist Phenomenon
06 Mar 2016
I know many pundits, think tanks, politicians, advisors to politicians, strategists, academics and consultants are trying to explain the “Trump phenomenon.” Some have made excellent contributions. But I came across one in the Washington Post of March 5, 2016 which seems to capture the movement well. As an added benefit the article also traces the […]
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Forrest McDonald (1927-2016)
04 Mar 2016
Just as I was thinking about one of my favorite author-scholars today, I discovered he had very recently died. Forrest McDonald, one of the truly great scholars of early American political thought, and long-time professor of history at the University of Alabama, passed away at the age of 89. The first lesson I should learn […]
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