I just heard on DC radio here a classic example of just how unresponsive large bureaucracies can be, when there is no good reason for them to behave as they do. In a rare feat the Washington Nationals professional baseball team has won its division (miracle!) and is now in the baseball playoffs. Of course […]
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The Pleasures of Government
12 Oct 2016
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“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered “Fraud!” But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again. Empassioned sports fans don’t like a bad call, and we […]
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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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I think most of us can now certainly agree: even if we give Mr. Trump his claim that he is the most brilliant businessman ever, and his paying low or no taxes is due to his incredible financial acumen, we cannot help but conclude either he is a particularly poor politician or he simply does […]
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The Limits of Politics and Virtue
04 Oct 2016
Both my Bereans colleagues and the many commenters have hit upon a fundamental tension that runs beneath all the talk about whom to vote for this election. Though they might not have realized it they have been raising the very old and very crucial question of whether a nation needs virtuous political leaders to survive […]
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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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Happy Birthday US Constitution
17 Sep 2016
It is Constitution Day once again, but because it fell on Saturday this year, I haven’t seen as much publicity. That does not mean that we ought to overlook it. It has now been 229 years since the new United States met to overhaul its first constitution (the Articles of Confederation) and ended up proposing […]
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Even a stopped clock is right twice per day, and Mr. Trump is right much more than that (from an economic perspective). So despite my angst over his posture on immigration and free trade, let’s give Mr. Trump his due. The Fed’s easy money policy is fraught with significant problems, and the Fed itself is institutionally […]
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Miscellaneous Interesting (and Weird) News
13 Sep 2016
There are all sorts of interesting and disturbing issues and events out there in the news these days, some obscure and others more obvious and with greater implications. Below I simply want to list a few I have been reading about in recent days, and then later perhaps write some longer blogs on some of […]
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Power and Its Expressions
06 Sep 2016
We have been here in Washington, DC for about two weeks now and after two prior stays, one in 2013 and another in 1964 (!), I have a few observations about just how big, powerful and even “Messianic” government has become at the federal level, based on what I have seen physically in terms of […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
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