The nightmare is almost over, and then it will really begin. Absent a miracle, either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be our President. We’ve wrestled with our choices, and most of us will hold our nose tightly and do something, albeit some think doing nothing is a principled response. We’ve debated, discussed, commiserated and […]
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What is Comey Doing?
04 Nov 2016
James Comey’s decision to reopen the investigation against Sec. Hillary Clinton has caused an immense amount of conjecture. His initial, rather confusing, statements about Sec. Clinton after the first investigation that she had been wreckless, dishonest, and at the very least violated policy related to the handling of classified documents ended with a recommendation that […]
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Candidates: Step Down; Voters: Step Up
31 Oct 2016
Republicans from George Pataki to sitting members of Congress to theologian Wayne Grudem have called for Donald Trump to step down as GOP presidential candidate in recent weeks. Now, the tables have turned. The recent announcement by FBI director, Jim Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email improprieties has led to calls for […]
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Political Virtue: It’s Time to Begin a Movement
24 Oct 2016
No matter who you plan to vote for I am seeing some things that really disturb me. One recent development is the new Wikileaks (not Wikipedia) trove of John Podesta showing communications between Democratic operatives and poll agencies in which the Democrats requested ways to manipulate polls by oversampling certain groups and under-sampling others. A […]
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What Not to Do on November 8
18 Oct 2016
Another post on the election would almost seem to be cruel. Aren’t we all exhausted by the rhetoric over the past two (yes, two) years? But there is something we still need to bear in mind as we go to the polls. I was reminded of this by an article today by Yuval Levin (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/441149/protest-vote-congress-yuval-levin) […]
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The Real Battle
11 Oct 2016
The revelation about Donald Trump’s vulgar and pretty ugly statements about women has certainly generated heated discussion. I am not here to either defend his statements or to persuade anyone to vote for him. I will merely state the obvious: Christian voters find themselves in quite a quandary. On the one hand, I am convinced […]
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This moment has been a long time coming. On Saturday, October 8, 2016, Evangelicals arrived at a crossroads. How did Evangelicals arrive here? They put their hope in the political process. They believed the Supreme Court controlled the culture. They wedded themselves to a political party that took them for granted. They developed a psychological […]
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As a fragrant breeze, Elaine Quijano’s question wafted across what had been a pungent VP debate stage. You have both been open about the role that faith has played in your lives. Can you discuss in detail a time when you struggled to balance your personal faith and a public policy position? Tim Kaine answered […]
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Are We Missing the Substance?
04 Oct 2016
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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To Vote, or Not to Vote
02 Oct 2016
Evangelicals Disagree President Franklin D. Roosevelt is reported to have said, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” I agree. I also agree that the upcoming presidential election presents one of the most […]
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