That Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote should be of concern to Republicans, Democrats having won six of the last seven presidential elections with a plurality of the votes cast. But, as David French points out, we really can’t say who would have won
Geologists have found a site in the Permian Basin in Texas that holds some 20 billion barrels of oil. The entire area may hold 75 billion barrels, making it the largest unconventional deposit in the United States, and the second in the world, next only
Westminster Seminary in Escondido, California, has some impressive theologians–Michael Horton, David Van Drunen, and other Calvinists of the sort who appear on White Horse Inn. I know some of these guys, think highly of them, and appreciate how some of them are being influenced by
New presidents get three special intelligence briefings on America’s “deep secrets.” These cover our intelligence resources, current covert operations, and–crucially–how to work the “nuclear football” (the codes and options in that briefcase that accompanies the president at all times in order to launch a nuclear war). These
Democrats are claiming a moral victory–and sometimes an actual rightful victory–by saying that Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote. Actually, no one won a majority. She won a plurality, but not a majority. Clinton had 47.7%. Donald Trump had 47.5%. Some 5
Picking up from yesterday’s post, something else I learned from Jordan Cooper’s presentation on the Two Kingdoms and Creation. He pointed out that just as God established human culture by appointing the vocations of marriage, parenthood, and work in Paradise, the curses after the Fall
An Associated Press story, excerpted and linked after the jump, says that Trump’s election victory “resets” the culture wars. It quotes LGBT and pro-abortion activists lamenting that their causes have experienced a setback. First of all, Trump supports gay rights. He “is fine” with gay
Assisted Suicide laws usually have a provision specifying that a person must be “mentally competent” in order to make the decision to die. But California’s new euthanasia law allows for the assisted suicide of patients who are so mentally ill that they have been institutionalized.
Politico asked a wide range of experts to sketch out what they think would be the best case and the worst case scenarios for a Donald Trump presidency. The answers sometimes tell us more about the experts than about the possibilities of a Trump administration.
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Vocation as the foundation of culture
I learned some things at the Two Kingdoms conference I spoke at, sponsored by Jordan Cooper at Just and Sinner. Jordan commented that our vocations–in the family, the economy, the church, and the state–are no less than the foundations of culture. He studied the first