Mid-term elections are typically rough for the President’s party. Below are some figures that simply lay out results in mid-terms between 1946 and 2014. The first figure looks at results in the U.S. House. Some things jump out quickly. There is a significant amount of variability, but nearly all of it is in negative territory. […]
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Hat Tip to David French over at National Review. But its worth listing here too. You probably have heard that Mrs. Clinton says Democrats shouldn’t be civil to Republicans, since they (R’s) are trying to destroy everything that D’s believe in. Eric Holder, in a campaign rally, suggested Mrs. Obama’s famous call, “they go low, […]
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Kavanaugh Part 3: Bereans VLOG (10/8/2018)
09 Oct 2018
Greetings! We have what we think is a final vlog on Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination. Today we discuss the cultural implications of the nomination and a few other tidbits. As always, leave questions below and see the actual video in the site plug-in.
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Jeff Flake, Republican Senator from Arizona, was once again the man of the moment, as he has often been during the past two years. One of the most persistent Trump critics in the upper chamber, Flake has become a celebrity of sorts, and sometimes a media darling. All that vanished last week when he became […]
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Bill Cosby as a Lesson for Our Political Moment
26 Sep 2018
I grew up in prime Bill Cosby years. When I was quite young, I watched Fat Albert, the cartoon where Cosby gave a voice to a memorable cast of characters. “Hey, Hey, Hey” was a constant catchphrase for me and my friends. Later, I watched The Cosby Show, one of the most beloved and influential […]
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As suggested in last week’s post, acrimony and ugliness continue to be the norm as the week progressed, unfortunately to include some comments in this blog. Predictably, those with preconceived biases in favor of or against Mr. Kavanaugh generally weighed in with moral cases that buttressed their positions. For those generally in favor of Mr. […]
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Who is in Charge of the White House?
05 Sep 2018
The White House has been rocked by two accounts this week, both of which make an uncomfortable allegation: President Trump is not really in charge of the White House. Bob Woodward’s explosive new book, Fear, portrays an executive in a perpetual state of turmoil with senior staffers routinely thwarting the President’s desires through either inaction, […]
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Living the Truth in Politics: Part 2
29 Aug 2018
***This is a three-part series on Living the Truth in Politics. Part 1 sets the stage of how truth is treated in the political realm. Part 2 looks at how the Bible treats truth, especially for the Child of God. Part 3 examines the obvious conflict and attempts to answer a question: how does the […]
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John McCain: The Maverick’s Last Flight
26 Aug 2018
U.S. Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) death has rightly reverberated across the United States. We are blessed with few actual larger-than-life figures, even in our celebrity-obsessed age. McCain was one of them and he will be missed. This is not an obituary, for many excellent ones are already available–The Washington Post’s by Karen Tumulty is particularly well […]
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Living the Truth in Politics: Part 1
25 Aug 2018
***This is a three-part series on Living the Truth in Politics. Part 1 sets the stage of how truth is treated in the political realm. Part 2 looks at how the Bible treats truth, especially for the Child of God. Part 3 examines the obvious conflict and attempts to answer a question: how does the […]
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