One possibility in the election: Both candidates get 269 electoral votes, resulting in a tie. From Napp Nazworth: In a Thursday blog post, University of Virginia political scientists Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley point out that a tie in the electoral college, 269-269,
The San Francisco Giants did to the St. Louis Cardinals what the Cardinals had been doing to everyone else, coming back from near certain elimination to advance to the World Series. They are playing the Detroit Tigers, a team that has the thanks and admiration
From Methodist minister Chris Brundage at Christian Century: I have a new name for God, at least new to me. The old three-letter word “God” is worn out. Words only last so long before they need to be retired for a season. The word “God”
Democrats are calling attempts, usually led by Republicans, to try to prevent voter fraud as racist attempts to suppress the vote. Democrats complain that voter ID laws and similar proposals are tackling a non-existent problem. But John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky say that the
The presidential campaign will cost some $4 billion. We worry about so much spending and what special interests contribute so much money. But another question, Michael Wolff points out, is who gets all of that money? The answer: Television stations, despite the way this flies
Thanks to everybody who live-blogged the debates with me. As has been said, “that was fun.” The instant back-and-forth in real time made for a lively online conversation. We’ll have to look for other opportunities to do that sort of thing. (Any ideas for that?
Our politics are polarizing, to the point that, at least in Washington, D. C., little kids are getting into fights on the playground over politics. Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak quotes a letter to parents sent by a school and cites her own 5-year-old’s political
Do you remember how liberalism used to be idealistic and ambitious, taking on big problems with boldness and confidence? Liberal presidents were always proposing vast new programs to solve our social ills: the New Frontier, the Great Society, the War on Poverty. Now, points out
I’m on the road, but I hope to get back to my hotel room in order to comment on the debate. If I’m not here, you go on without me. (Just add your “comments,” refreshing the page periodically to follow what other people are saying.)
A paragraph from a piece by Peter Berger, via Anthony Sacramone: The Lutheran understanding of the Eucharist implies a view of creation itself being a sacrament. All of nature, the world as perceived in ordinary experience and in empirical science, is sacramental—in the words of
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