The presidency was not the only important election last night. Republicans kept control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. We no longer will have a divided government. Which means that the Republican administration could, conceivably, get something done. (Although gridlock is not
My custom has long been to stay up until the wee hours watching the election returns. That will be much easier this year, since I’m in Australia. Polls will close starting at about mid-morning, here in Oz time, where it will already be Wednesday. The
So what are your election day predictions? Who will win? By what margin? Will the winner in electoral college votes win the popular vote? Will the election be disputed? Which party will win the House of Representatives and the Senate? What else are you expecting?
During the Cold War, some Americans were worried that Communists were infiltrating the motion picture industry, so as to influence the West with their Marxist propaganda. Today, Communists are taking an easier route. They are just buying the industry. Government-connected Chinese investors have recently bought
I spoke at Jordan Cooper’s “Just & Sinner” conference, the topic of which was the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. This is a teaching that many people are confused about, including some Reformed folks who are trying to adapt it to Calvinism. In my first
Tomorrow is the election. Soon it will all be over. It looks like it is going to be closer than anyone expected, so every vote will be important. Use this space to make your case for the candidate you are supporting. Also for voting for
On Saturday night, here in Australia, fireworks started going off everywhere. It dawned on my daughter the lines “Remember, remember/the Fifth of November.” It was Guy Fawkes day! The old boy is burned in effigy and explosions are set off in commemoration of the Gunpowder
We blogged about the excavation of what is believed to be the tomb of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. When the marble cladding was removed over the place where the body would have been laid, there was a layer of
Most people associate Lutheranism with Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States. Germany indeed is number one (11,787,811), but number two is Ethiopia (7,886,595) and number three is Tanzania (6,531,336). Indonesia is fifth (6,046,321) and India is seven (4,042,543). There are nine countries with more Lutherans
Ivan the Terrible is known for killing his own son and for slaughtering vast numbers of his countrymen, including the Massacre of Novgorod, where up to 60,000 men, women, and children were brutally killed. But his reputation is being rehabilitated in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. You can
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