The progressive left is fighting a pre-emptive war against Howard Schultz’s potential presidential candidacy. Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, made the media rounds on Sunday and Monday, declaring, oddly, he is strongly considering an independent run. The left is worried that Schultz, as a lifelong Democrat, will drain votes from their own progressive nominee, […]
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Schultz’s 3rd Party Folly?
29 Jan 2019
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 12
21 Jan 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. I have to start out this week by recommending a piece of classical music: Samson and Delilah Act 2 by Saint-Saens. Even if opera isn’t […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 10
08 Jan 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. Ah, 2019…..feels a lot like 2018 to be honest, but it’s good to back. I don’t have much to say for an introduction […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 8
17 Dec 2018
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, as one of the questioners in today’s mailbag put it: The flow of events in the Commonwealth continues to create cause for pondering. […]
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George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) died this weekend. The scion of a prominent political family—his father, Prescott, was a U.S. Senator from Connecticut—President Bush built the family into a political dynasty. Bush served as an aviator in the United States Navy, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives, Ambassador to the United […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 4
19 Nov 2018
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. Before we get going, I should make mention of Dr. Smith’s recently published “Zounds!” article, seeing as it evoked violent full-body convulsions from […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 3
12 Nov 2018
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. My guess is that everyone is a little angsty after the midterms, seeing as no one really got the result they wanted. But, […]
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Post-Election Blues?
11 Nov 2018
This is my first post since last year. I hope to contribute once again in weeks and months ahead. It’s a few days after the “Blue Wave” and I am compelled to say it wasn’t a wave as much as a regular tidal change. While some may be quite discouraged, I don’t see much potential […]
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Election Results: Some Perspective
07 Nov 2018
If you had asked me two years ago, upon Trump’s election to the presidency, I’d have predicted the GOP would get blasted in the midterm elections of 2018. Of course, this has to be put in some context. As I noted in a recent post, we would expect the GOP, in a normal midterm cycle, […]
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Mid-Term Elections 2018: Part 2
05 Nov 2018
Tuesday marks the end of the 2018 midterm election cycle. Political scientists hesitate to say things like, “Donald Trump is on the ballot” when he is actually, you know, not on the ballot. We tend to see congressional elections as local affairs, driven more by statewide dynamics than the occupant of the White House. At […]
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