Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 87. As a law student, Ginsburg graduated first in her class at Columbia Law, but found it difficult to land a position. Her mentor told a judge friend he would no longer send students to him as clerks if he did […]
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Ginsburg’s Death Eclipses a Remarkable Life
19 Sep 2020
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Clarity on the morality of Democratic policies
27 Aug 2020
It’s easy to get into the almost clinical dissection of various policies and which political party has better values. Partisans of both political parties have attacks on the morality of the other side, as this week’s Republican convention does what the Democrats did earlier. Yet some data help clarify moral questions. For me it’s the […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 27
20 May 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Ready for some behind the scenes? I, as a duly ordained contributor to this blog, get to see which posts are upcoming/in the […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 21
01 Apr 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, last week I said my March Madness bracket was doing pretty well on the whole. Oh how I forgot the ides of […]
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The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
26 Feb 2019
The Senate voted on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act yesterday, Monday, February 25. The Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) failed to receive the required 60 votes needed to overcome a legislative filibuster. Other than democratic senators from Alabama, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the vote followed a strict party line with a […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 14
04 Feb 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. A friend was talking with me the other day, and he brought up the fact that you really never really know what’s going […]
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New York Celebrates Abortion
23 Jan 2019
On the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the New York legislature expanded abortion rights in the state. The action was met with applause. We do not dwell often on abortion here at Bereans@TheGate. That is probably to our detriment. In some ways, the issue feels out of hand since it is now more a […]