ESPN laid off more than 100 staffers yesterday, ranging from SportsCenter anchors to frontline reporters. Here is a running list of those who lost their jobs. The internet, to put it mildly, was interested. #ESPN was trending on Twitter yesterday. SI.Com ran two stories on the layoffs, including a behind-the-scenes view of what happened and […]
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ESPN and Politics
27 Apr 2017
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Mutually Assured Idiocy–March 31, 2017
03 Apr 2017
Welcome back to our VLOG. On this week’s episode, here is what you will find. 0:33 Mike Pence “Scandal” 6:26 California Prosecution of Undercover Recordings 11:53 Health Care Update 16:02 Gorsuch, Filibuster, The Nuclear Option We hope you enjoy!
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Bereans in Chapel!
24 Mar 2017
This past week, we were asked to serve on a panel during Cedarville’s chapel hour. Dr. White, our president, facilitated the discussion. Topics included: An evaluation of the Trump presidency so far Health Care Immigration News in the era of Fake News Here is link to the audio file. You can download or stream it.
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Mutually Assured Idiocy–Bereans VLOG #2
03 Mar 2017
Here is our newest video blog, filmed on March 3, 2017. Dr. Mach joins us in this iteration. And, yes, the Gilded Age was referenced.
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Mutually Assured Idiocy–Bereans@TheGate VLOG #1
03 Mar 2017
Remarkably, we have decided to suffer the slings and arrows of our oppressors and offer the world what it has never demanded. Here is our inaugural video blog we have appropriately titled Mutually Assured Idiocy. “Enjoy.” (This was recorded last week, but some knave was too busy to “edit” and upload the file until today. […]
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Is Trump Now the GOP?
01 Mar 2017
What, now, is the Republican Party? Last night, in his most conventional moment to date, President Trump challenged the soul of the GOP. Based on applause, is it now safe to say the Republican Party stands for protectionism, a $1 trillion infrastructure project, paid family and medical leave, and governmental restrictions on drug prices and […]
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Trump Comes Through for Evangelicals
31 Jan 2017
The most important moment of the 2016 presidential campaign happened on February 13, 2016. There were no primaries or caucuses and no one entered or dropped out of the race. Instead, on that day, the world learned of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on a ranch in Texas. What was an important election against a historic […]
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Solitary Ruminations on Trump’s Inaugural
24 Jan 2017
I decided to forego a few cases in my constitutional law course so that we might watch history. Twitter played a live feed of the festivities and I got to class just before Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath of office. Squeezed between two students in the back row, I tried to see Pres. Trump’s […]
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Trump, Truth, and the Fall of the Elites
11 Jan 2017
Reports surfaced last night that set the social media world on fire. Apparently, President Obama and President-Elect Trump were briefed on information obtained by a former British intelligence agent who put together a file of opposition research. The file and the information is not classified, nor is it the product of our intelligence agencies. The […]
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Arrival is the Best Film I’ve Seen This Year
26 Dec 2016
Director Dennis Villeneuve has crafted a masterpiece, a science fiction film that turns its gaze from the stars and into the corners of the human condition. Arrival deserves to stand alongside the best of the genre, likeĀ 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Interstellar, Contact, and Blade Runner. As I’ve written before, science fiction is at its […]