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Son of Bork
Yesterday I tweeted that Obama’s big challenge is this: “The chief tactical challenge for Obama is this: arguing for a second term without looking like he is arguing for a second chance. #please” My friend Frank Turk responded with a challenge. “@douglaswils well, as someone on-record as not being willing to vote for Romney, you …
No Mandate for Either One
The presidential election, of course, has the capacity to be a disaster on wheels, either way it goes. But let me sketch a quick scenario in which it could be a good thing — either way. One of my assumptions in this thought experiment is that in the gubernatorial races, in the Senate races, and …
Five Aphorisms for the Fourth
The problem with George III was that he was from the House of Hanover. The problem with Obama is he’s from the House of Handover. Christians who absolutize obedience to the “existing authorities” never seem to think that the Constitution is an existing authority. Shooting off fireworks without a real commitment to liberty now is …
Up With People With Calculators
The vote in Wisconsin last night was heartening, on a number of levels. First, I was gratified that the very first thing Scott Walker did was give glory to God for His abundant grace. Cynics can dismiss that sort of thing as campaign boiler plate, but in the Bible, it remains a big deal. It …
Privacy or Anonymity?
There is a vast difference between a Christian desire for privacy and the unbelieving desire for anonymity. But this requires some teasing out, which I can only just begin here. First, let me make a few observations that would indicate that we don’t really know what privacy should mean. Vast regiments of people post things …
Obama as Greek Bank
At least inside my own head, whenever I do forecaster punditry, I feel like I always qualify what I say. Our lives are a mist, we know not what cometh, I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet, etc. But then some years down the road somebody chortles at me in the …
Reading the Tea Party Leaves
And now for a quick little political roundup. And speaking of that, wouldn’t it be nice if we had enough Round Up to spray all over Washington, but I find I have stumbled into the common error of confusing things that sound alike, and I also really need to work on focusing. The turnout for …
The Problem With Their Syncretisms
Suppose a measure is before your state legislature to build a bridge over a river in your town. There are ardent Christians in your town who think this is a good idea, and ardent Christians who want to leave well enough alone. Surrounding these pro and con Christians are the unbelievers who also, not surprisingly, …
Bloodshed and Buggery
So Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell as his foreign policy spokesman, and Grenell is an “out and proud” homosexual. Well, who could have seen that coming? The issue is how these things get mainstreamed. There is a certain kind of conservative who, in Dabney’s immortal phrase, is the shadow that follows radicalism to perdition. It …