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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In Defense of Evangelicals Who Support Trump
It is usually easier for an outsider to defend a person or a group that is attacked than for the person or group.
Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson?
When a British interviewer tried to shut him up, I knew he had something interesting to say.
The Memo and the Truth
Partisans tend to read, watch and listen only, or mostly, to information and opinions that reinforce their beliefs. If information surfaces that counters those beliefs, it is usually disparaged, excused or ignored. That’s human nature.
Are Liberals Rooting Against America?
The unseemly sight of nearly the entire Democratic congressional delegation sitting on their hands and clinging to their chairs throughout Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech is further evidence that they want America to fail on Trump’s watch.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Veterans, Bars and Even a Bowling Alley Boycott Super Bowl
A growing number of Americans decided they had better things to do with their time on Super Bowl Sunday than support a professional football league that doesn’t have the decency to honor the national anthem.
GOP Memo Raises Serious Questions About FBI, Justice Department
Clearly, the FISA memo released is but a portion of a much larger story.
Moral Cowardice in the Senate
“Until birth, you guys. Until BIRTH. Where’s the ‘science’ supporting that??” That’s how one young commentator responded to an NBC news “health” piece highlighting the tweets of an abortion provider at the University of California San Francisco.
Memos, Trump, and Trust
Perhaps we should not be surprised by the hysteria over the release of Congressman Devin Nunes’ memo. After all, “memogate” has filled Washington with hysteria for weeks.
If Only Trump Were a Dictator
I keep hearing the president’s detractors refer to him as Hitler, Stalin and the Devil. That would suggest that he is not only evil incarnate but that he literally has the blood and tormented souls of millions of people on his hands. So far as I can tell, the only thing he’s likely to have on his hands is a bit of McDonald’s special sauce.
A ‘Wall of Shame’ on the Mexican Border
In the desert outside San Diego, tactical teams assigned to U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been testing eight prototypes for the “great, great wall on our southern border” that Donald Trump has been calling for since the day he began his campaign for president. The panels are 30 feet high and 30 feet long, and cost an average of $450,000 each. They are made of solid concrete or a steel-and-concrete combination. According to Fox News, teams have spent three weeks trying to breach and scale the giant wall sections, “using jackhammers, saws, torches and other tools and climbing devices.” So far they have proved virtually impassable.
America Needs More Gentlemen
The age of social media has worked against the ideas of decorum, dignity and self-control.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Why Good Economic News Is Bad
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes was worried, but not about the unpleasantness that had begun the previous year and would linger long enough to become known as the Great Depression. What troubled the British economist was that humanity “is solving its economic problem.”
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Freedom Gets Its Ambassador in Brownback
Thursday afternoon, I was honored to attend the swearing in of my friend Sam Brownback as the next Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom.
College Defends Art Professor Who Desecrated American Flag
When Marine veteran Jess Karcher first saw the desecrated American flag at Broward College, he was confused. Then, he became angry.
Trump, Oprah and the Art of Deflection
Will American politics return to normalcy in 2021 or 2025? I’m not betting on it.
Rot, or Revival?
The rot is everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. In the Republicans. In the Democrats. In sports. In Hollywood. In business. In our churches. America is awash in the sewage of sexual harassment and abuse, drowning us in heartbreak and humiliation.
Hate and Humility in the Social Media
I was a late adopter of Facebook. I had a nagging fear that no one would befriend me, and that my Facebook experience would become a monologue. Of course that was irrational. I currently have 257 friends, representing my connections during the various decades of my life. I have worked diligently to post interesting and intriguing perspectives. Some of my friends have graciously suggested that I have been successful.
Nunes Memo Released
The Nunes memo has been released. We are examining it now. Byron York and several conservative outlets are reporting these key points:...
The FBI Can’t Be Trusted
It seems that the two most irrelevant things I keep hearing these days is that Robert Mueller is a lifelong Republican and that most FBI agents are honest and patriotic. To which my short answer is: So what?
Friday, February 2, 2018
Trump’s New Immigration Proposal Is Quintessentially Presidential
President Trump once boasted that his base was so loyal that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Now he’s putting that claim to the test with his immigration proposal.