The Democratic Party will return to Chicago in 2024. It will be held from August 19-22. You can get the details from any news website, but we thought we would call your attention to previous Chicago conventions. This will be...
My feeds are filled with MasterClass ads. For $180 a year I can learn cooking from Gordon Ramsey, science from Bill Nye, writing from James Patterson, comedy from Steve Martin, personal branding from Kris Jenner, acting from Samuel L. Jackson,...
In case you still don’t know, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. Here is how Twitter is responding: As of 8:43pm on Tuesday evening, April 20, 2021 the following national politicians...
It doesn’t look like it. Here is a taste of David Leonhardt’s piece at The New York Times: . . . In recent years, however, a growing number of immigration advocates and progressive Democrats have become dissatisfied with this combination....
As I write, Washington D.C. is an armed camp. 25,000 National Guard members are ready to defend the U.S. Capitol during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on January 20. Meanwhile, people are still dying of COVID-19. Incoming President Joe Biden is...
George H.W. Bush:
Court evangelical James Dobson just released his monthly newsletter. It is worth comparing what Dobson said about presidential character in 1998 with what he is saying today about presidential character. Here is 1998 (italics mine): As it turns out, character […]
We have now had two nights of the DNC convention. Let’s check-in on the court evangelicals: I think this must have been taped before the convention, but watch Eric Metaxas and John Smirak mock Kamala Harris’s first name. And then...
When Bill Clinton was going through his impeachment ordeal in the late 1990s, he turned to several spiritual advisers to help him get through it. In September 2019, I wrote a piece at The Washington Post on how Tony Campolo, Gordon...
Today an NBC reporter asked Donald Trump this very question. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPuNw3dJYUY&w=560&h=315] The reporter, Peter Alexander, later said that he was “pitching Trump a softball question.” Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5hJQ2ubohg&w=560&h=315] If my memory serves, there was also a president who...
December 17, 1998:...
Today I was talking to a reporter about impeachment and recalled a statement issued in 1998 by prominent American theologians and ethicists. A really interesting mix of evangelical and non-evangelical moral philosophers signed this statement. I have copied it below....
This morning the leaders of the House of Representatives stood in front of a copy of Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 “Lansdowne portrait” of George Washington and announced, for only the fourth time in United States history, articles of impeachment against the...
With two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump set to be released tomorrow (Tuesday), I thought I would offer some historical context by providing the articles of impeachment for Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson. (Only Clinton and Johnson were impeached. Nixon...
A taste: Like the Old Testament prophet Nathan who confronted King David for committing adultery with Bathsheba, Campolo and MacDonald entered the president’s “court” as pastors — Christian leaders charged with the task of calling out sin and facilitating spiritual...
This is your “Christian” evangelical president. pic.twitter.com/u0478FoSyR — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 5, 2018 Context When the Barack, Michelle, Bill, Hillary, Jimmy, and Rosalyn started reciting it, perhaps he thought the Apostles Creed was some kind of loyalty oath for...
Here is a taste of Peter Rothpletz’s interview with the CNN anchor at The Yale Politic: I think Trump and Trumpism is a manifestation of many different parts of American popular cultural and societal evolution including the increasing importance of celebrity,...
Earlier today we did a post on Franklin Graham’s statement that Donald Trump’s adulterous affair with Stormy Daniels was “nobody’s business.” His views on these things have apparently changed. This 1998 piece is really revealing: From the Wall Street Journal, August 27,...
A recent poll has found that almost fifty percent of evangelicals say a Donald Trump recommendation would make them more likely to vote for a candidate. Meanwhile, fifty-four percent of evangelicals said a Hillary Clinton endorsement would make them less...
Listen to court evangelical James Dobson speaking to a group called Intercessors for America: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/380619614″ params=”color=ff5500&hide_related=true&show_comments=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Bill Clinton also had “many opponents.” James Dobson was one of the most vocal of those opponents. Where was Dobson...
