As we agreed the Bereans have been letting our readers know whom we would (probably) be voting for this presidential election, and our reasons.  Our opinions certainly won’t sway the election outcome, but  hope we can stimulate some helpful thinking.  This for me is a somewhat tentative exercise, as there is still time before the […]

How did we get here?  This is the question many of us have heard or asked during the last year.  We’re all justifiably distraught that our choices seemingly are Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.  No one wants to vote for the lesser of two evils, especially when it seems like the lesser is still pretty evil.  Further, most Bereans […]

This week, you will be blessed, or cursed, with our voting choices. Each day, one of our writers will embrace the carnage that is 2016. Unlike Mrs. Clinton, we have decided transparency is best. Unlike Mr. Trump, we will pretend to be reasonable. Unlike Mr. Johnson, we promise not to be high while writing. Unlike […]

The Bereans are on the road September 18! Three of us (Smith, Tison, and Wheeler) will be at Grace Covenant Church in Beavercreek, OH at 6:00 pm for a brief talk followed by q&a. If you are in the area, feel free to come. If you bring rotten vegetables, aim at Dr. Tison, he is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It has been pointed out by historians and journalists that political campaigns have always been a little bit or a lot vicious, with a good deal of “over the top” rhetoric.  Witness the Adams-Jefferson campaign of 1800.  It was pretty overheated on both sides.  But I see something different at work now among liberals, or, […]

In 2004 the band Straylight Run produced a song called “Existentialism On Prom Night” about a young couple that made the most of evening. “Sing me something soft, sad and delicate, or loud and out of key,” they wrote, “Sing me anything, we’re glad for what we’ve got, done with what we’ve lost, our whole […]