So begins Cat Stevens song from the ‘70s Oh very young, what will you leave us this time, You’re only dancin’ on this earth for a short while, And though your dreams may toss and turn you now, They will vanish away like your dads best jeans, Denim blue, faded up to the sky, And […]

The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. On June 5, a petition was started to cancel 2020, which gathered several million signatures before being sent to the heavenly courts. Bereans at the Gate has obtained the […]

President Trump has pledged to use military force if governors and mayors are unable to pacify cities across the country. As more stores, government buildings, and monuments are burned or razed, troop deployments to Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Los Angeles, or New York are still possible. President Trump has the legal power to use the armed […]

As our stock of reasons for rescinding the 2020 experience continues to mount, I wanted to wax historical for a moment, just as the rest of us are continuing to wax hysterical. The whole Floyd saga has set me thinking over the past few days, adding not a few moments of reflection and challenge. Here, […]

I live in a village with three stop lights, one of which blinks when school is out of session. I am a white college professor on a mostly white campus within a white religious tradition. The smoke, shattered glass, and pepper spray now etched into too many urban landscapes are alien, but so is having […]

President Obama flouted executive authority and too often politicized the law. These attitudes spilled into the transition of power, it seems, as federal agents targeted Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor of the Trump Administration. Obama and Flynn had a complicated past, and Flynn paid a heavy price. Retired Gen. Flynn, a Democrat, served […]

In continuing the discussion of the false dichotomy, I still see the inevitable question from media types (both regular and social) asking basically why doesn’t Mr. Trump edict to the red state yahoos that are not taking this seriously. After all, science must be the arbiter of this decision. I think its important to remind […]

Is anybody else frustrated at the false dichotomy that is continually talked about of whether we reopen again and when? When the reality is that we must reopen and the question is how? Even in a shut down, which does have remarkably lower economic activity, we still eat, we still consume resources, and those resources […]

The debt buildup continues to melt up, with another $483B in “stimulus” heading somewhere, after the previous $2T. And there will be more–count on it. And that doesn’t include the Fed’s monetary “whatever it takes” policy of buying bonds and other assets, to include state and local government debt. Fed assets are up over $2.5T […]

Americans of all stripes and sides assert their rights. Religious Americans are no different. In some ways, this is glorious. We should be jealous of our rights. After all, we believe they are OUR rights. The Declaration claims government exists to secure those rights–not “grant” them or “recognize” them, but to secure them. Advocating for […]