Here is Stephen Groves at the Associated Press: As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip […]
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Peggy Noonan: “As for Matt Gaetz being nominated as attorney generalâwell, this is just straight-out trolling, right?”
Here is the former Reagan speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist: The first wave of nominees to the Trump administration announced this week included normal RepublicansâSusie Wiles as chief of staff, Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations, Lee Zeldin at the […]
Election Day was 10 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It looks like there is going to be some division in evangelical MAGA-land over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments. More than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump and the president is “rewarding” them with an attorney general nominee who was […]
Are evangelicals “the cheapest date in politics?”
Some good analysis here from Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy. A taste: This is the broader point: There were two theories about evangelical voters in this election. One theory said that if we abstained or voted third party we were […]
“Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post…but especially for ODNI. She has no qualifications as an intelligence professionalâliterally none.”Â
Tom Nichols is a former professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and is now a writer a The Atlantic. Here is his take on Donald Trump’s appointment of former Democratic representative Tulsi Gabbard as director of national […]
David Blight: “We need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge…as much or more than we stress our racial, ethnic and gendered parts.”
Yale historian David Blight has some wise words for elite institutions of higher education: âWeâ need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge â our histories, our literature, our sciences, our social structures, as […]
Election Day was 9 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
I noticed a couple of things in today’s roundup: *** Jackson Posey, a writer for the Baylor Lariat, encourages his fellow students not to be anxious about the election results. Here is a taste: Donald Trump is soon to be […]
John Thune is “no longer a Trump critic, but he isn’t a loyalist either”
I must admit that I breathed a small sigh of relief when I heard that GOP Senators chose John Thune to lead them. Thune defeated John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida. The latter was Trump’s pick. So […]
Lance Wallnau prophesies better on private jets.
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Matt Gaetz for attorney general?
For Donald Trump it is all about loyalty, and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is a Trump loyalist. Trump said he wanted to use the presidency to go after his enemies. It looks like he really meant it. Gaetz once said […]
Kamala Harris could be the first woman president as early as today
What if Joe Biden resigned today? Here is Carrie Friedman at The Washington Post: We owe a debt of gratitude to President Joe Biden for his lifetime of service â and for his patriotism in stepping aside in July. Still, […]
Trump nominates a Fox News weekend host as Secretary of Defense
Hegseth is not good enough to be a Fox & Friends weekday host, but he IS good enough to be Secretary of Defense. đ Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University where he wrote for the Princeton Tory and averaged […]
Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Donald Trump has appointed Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist preacher turned governor of Arkansas turned presidential candidate turned Christian television talk show host, the ambassador to Israel. Christian Zionist groups are very excited about the appointment. Here is Joel […]
Chris Wallace is leaving CNN
This is too bad. Over the last several months I became a fan of Wallace’s Saturday morning show. Here is The New York Times; Chris Wallace, a veteran TV anchor who left Fox News for CNNÂ three years ago, announced on […]
Song of the day:
Time to break this one out again. My first interpretation of the song is here. My addendum to my first interpretation is here. I also wrote about the song here.
From Poland Spring to “Little Marco” to Secretary of State?
Marco Rubio was once a rising star in the Republican Party. In 2013, his party chose him to deliver the response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. This was the famous Poland Spring moment: He was the Cuban-American […]
Election Day was one week ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Fiona Hamilton of The Times (UK) has talked to some Trump-supporting evangelicals in Georgia. Here is a taste: The convention had been awash with talk of divine intervention and miracles even before Trump told delegates that âIâm not supposed to […]
On Stephen Wolfe’s use of my book “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?”
On at least two occasions that I know about, Stephen Wolfe, the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism, has tweeted passages from my book to advance his vision of a Christian state. You can learn more about that vision […]
Can the Democrats reclaim the populist mantle?
Michael Sean Winters has his doubts. Here is a taste of his piece at the National Catholic Reporter: Democratic donors on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and in Hollywood, and among special interest groups don’t want a party that champions […]
The Author’s Corner with Derek G. Handley
Derek G. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. This interview is based on his new book, Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, 2024). […]