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Not Exactly Something Normal
Christianity is a weird religion. Other religions have a version of the "Golden Rule." Other religions have a watery creation. Other religions have sacrifice. Other religions have mercy. Other religions have a lot of what Christianity has. But they are all so much more the same, and Christianity itself is so divergent it is not exactly ...Read more
You Do Not Have to Cling to the World. You Can Cling to Christ.
The world is headed into Holy Week, the holiest of times for the world's more than 2 billion Christians. Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem as a king on Palm Sunday; was tortured, crucified, killed and buried on Friday; and rose again on Easter Sunday. It is one of the defining weeks in human history. As we head there, ...Read more
TikTok Delenda Est
TikTok is an app for sharing short videos that keep people entertained. It is how more and more Gen Z kids get their news and information. It is also a massive Chinese surveillance application. Though TikTok claims to be headquartered in Singapore, its parent company ByteDance is a Chinese company ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist...Read more
The Evils of Two Lessers
The Democrats and Republicans have, together, decided to subject the American public to a rerun of the 2020 presidential election. This may be an exceedingly low turnout election, as most Americans, outside the bases of the two parties, have no desire to vote for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Some Americans, when forced to choose between ...Read more
Mitch McConnell Does Not Care
Unlike a lot of conservatives gleefully cheering on Mitch McConnell's announcement that he will step down as Senate Republican Leader in November, after the election, I actually paid the price for vocally opposing McConnell. In 2014, I used my platform at RedState to back Matt Bevin's race against McConnell. I was one year into my contract at ...Read more
A World Order, If You Can Keep It
With the exception of Pearl Harbor, the Western Hemisphere escaped World War II mostly unscathed. It also led, to paraphrase Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto's alleged quote, a sleeping giant to wake up in the form of the United States. With Europe and Asia in rubble, the threat of the Soviets replacing the Nazis, and China falling to the ...Read more
This Gridlock Is a Feature, Not a Bug
There are many things many people want Congress to do. I would like a law that allows private citizens to execute any slowpoke in the fast lane on the interstate, right then and there as they hold up everyone behind them. Our constitutional system would make that difficult, and it would never pass Congress for many reasons, one of which is ...Read more
When Losing Becomes Profitable
The Republican National Committee has been meeting in Las Vegas. Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk arranged counter-programming in Vegas with a handful of hyper-online alt-right activists and fringe celebrities floating Taylor Swift conspiracy theories and demanding accountability for Ronna McDaniel, the RNC Chairwoman, and the RNC as a whole ...Read more
The Trick That Dropped Atlanta Crime
You have undoubtedly heard that crime is down in a lot of places. One trick often employed in places like San Francisco is not to report crimes. Shoplifting is no longer pursued, and employees of businesses can be fired for preventing shoplifting. So property theft crimes drop not because theft is no longer happening but because it is no ...Read more
Weakness Provokes Bullies
North and South Yemen no longer exist. During the Cold War, North Yemen had ties to the West, and South Yemen had Marxist leadership, branding itself as totalitarian regimes often do, the "People's Democratic Republic of Yemen." With the collapse of the Soviet Union and communist subsidy, North Yemen finally sought merger with South Yemen in ...Read more
The Reality of Small Margins
I support limited government because I am a Christian. I believe we are all sinners. I want as few in charge of me as possible. In Congress, conservatives are agitating against a $1.7 trillion spending package negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson is unquestionably a conservative, but the Speaker of the House of Representatives has ...Read more
Joe Biden Preps Trump Endorsement
On Jan. 6, 2024, President Joe Biden intends to address the nation in a campaign kickoff. He will make his focus the "threat to democracy" that is former President Donald Trump. His speech, less than 10 days before the Iowa Caucuses, should be seen for what it is: an endorsement of Trump as his Republican opponent.
Each time the Democrats ...Read more