The New York Times reports today that the federal government is in conflict with a school district in Palatine, IL over the district’s treatment of a transgendered student: “Federal Education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did […]
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Transgender Locker Rooms: Truth & Politics
03 Nov 2015
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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade was once a staple of male youth. The poem is both an anthem to the glory of military sacrifice and an ode to the brutality of battle. It is […]
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Boehner Resigns: Expect Nothing to Change
25 Sep 2015
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) will resign from both his Speakership and the U.S. House effective at the end of October. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced the resignation at the Values Voter Summit in D.C. and was greeted with a standing ovation as he did so. Expect similar reactions along the right side […]
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Secret Service Codenames?
17 Sep 2015
For some silly reason, CNN’s Jake Tapper decided to ask the candidates what their Secret Service codename would be if they won the presidency. Rarely funny, and generally painful, their answers didn’t exactly jump off the page. Here are my offerings: Carson–Scissorhands or Scalpel Trump–Bombast Christie–StayPuft Paul–EyePatch Fiorina–Stiletto Rubio–Hobbs Jeb–Eggo Huckabee–Gantry Kasich–Marbles Cruz–Pyro Walker–Cheesehead
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Seventeen Republicans have thrown their tam o’ shanters into the presidential ring and as we just passed Labor Day, the race is still in flux. Expect it to stay that way at least until January, and even then, there will be movement and surprises. The figure above is a rough sketch of average polling […]
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Donald Trump sits now where he is most comfortable–at the center of reality. Like sunflowers craning toward the daylight, it seems our body politic is bent toward the billionaire carnival-barker turned politician. This “Trumpotropism” is unsettling to our political class, especially of the genus Republican. The disquiet is deafening. There is good reason for concern. Trump […]
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The “Debate” & What it Means
08 Aug 2015
I finally watched the Fox presidential debate. Let me admit a few things up front.* Debates are excruciating. Anyone who cares deeply about our nation, and grasps at all the complexity buried in most of our important issues, can only recoil at a format that allows 60 seconds for answers and 30 seconds for follow-ups. […]
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The Fox News Debate Debacle
03 Aug 2015
For some reason, the Republican Party has decided to let Fox News determine the parameters of its first presidential debate. This being Fox, I assumed the network might swap the candidates with leggy blondes squatting behind transparent desks. At least that choice, as opposed to the ones already made, would reveal the entire exercise as […]
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“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matthew 5:14 Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) made it official. He is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Throwing his hat into an ever-expanding ring on Tuesday, Kasich, like everyone else, is a jumble of strengths and weaknesses, though for […]
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Cedarville University in The Atlantic
15 Jul 2015
Cedarville University has not starved for attention in recent years. That trend continued yesterday when The Atlantic published David R. Wheeler’s “Gay Marriage and the Future of Evangelical Colleges.” Though Wheeler references a variety of colleges, Cedarville was the most prominently featured. As I noted in a recent post on the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, […]
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