Our culture’s rejection of experts these days is well founded. Experts over the centuries have told us the Earth is the center of the universe, that it is a good idea to bleed sick people, that creation is billions of years old, and that humans are the primary driver of climate change. But it is…
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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Still Matters
I love the consistent inconsistency of the left. First we are told that the world is already being ravaged by the fallout of human induced global warming. Next we hear that if we don’t drastically reduce CO2 emissions in the next decade or so, “we’ll start feeling the brunt of the effects as soon as…
No Quarter November
Doug Wilson warns us that he’ll be speaking the unvarnished truth throughout November: So it is apparent that I believe that there really is a time for rhetorical qualifications. That time is not this coming November. Allow me to explain. No, no, I insist. During the course of this approaching month of November, my plan…
Bombs A-Weighed
Mark Steyn makes a point almost nobody else is making connecting the suppression of free speech with the rise of civil discord and violence: The absence of a wide degree of vigorous free speech leads to “hate acts”, to violent societies where, in the absence of a culture of dissent, the state thinks nothing of,…
Kill Sin or Sin Will Kill You
Christians are saved by grace. No action of ours, or even a decision, saves us. We are saved because God gives us a new heart with which we are irresistibly drawn to Him. Yet Scripture also makes it clear that we will never make it to heaven if we don’t kill our sin and walk…
Transacting with Riyadh
Islam is a murderous religion. It takes the sword to those who fail to submit to Allah. Andrew McCarthy describes how we see this playing out in the murderous regime ruling Saudi Arabia: What is variously called “radical Islam,” Islamism, “political Islam,” or “Islamic extremism” (and don’t you dare ask what it is that they’re…
The Caravan to Nowhere
If you can get the (almost) open borders Wall Street Journal to support closing the border, you know something big is afoot: The reality is that bowing to this migration blackmail would produce an American political backlash that would damage the cause of legal immigration and a humane refugee policy. Think of Germany’s Angela Merkel…
How Liberals Handed the Midterm Elections to Republicans
The headline over at the Transom this morning is “The Border is the October Surprise.” The October Surprise, of course, is an event one party or candidate waits until the last minute to make public in the hopes of shifting the the election outcome in their direction. The Transom quotes from Sohrab Amari’s article on…
Why I Will Vote for Trump in 2020
In the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, I shared with anyone who would listen why I wasn’t going to vote for Donald Trump. The primary reason for my decision was that I wasn’t sure the country would be better off with Trump as president than it would be with Hillary. I admitted…
Sir Roger Scruton: How to Preserve Freedom in the West
Real news or fake news? Truth or lies? How do we know the difference? Sometimes all we have to do is look to God’s Word, the Bible. Such as in today’s debates over human sexuality, abortion, the historical Adam, the resurrection of Jesus, etc. Other times, more investigation and application of God’s Word is required….