The election cost $5.8 billion and years of furor and trauma, only to leave us with what we had already: President Obama, a Democratic Senate, and a Republican House of Representatives. Does that mean we’ll have another four years of the status quo, that the
As we discussed, Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. Also Maryland and Maine have legalized gay marriage, the first time that step has been taken by popular referendum. But Massachusetts, to its credit, is voting down a measure that would legalize physician-assisted suicide. In Massachusetts,
A British commission is refusing to allow a Plymouth Brethren church to be registered as a charity because it practices closed communion: A government agency that oversees charities in the United Kingdom has decided that a local Christian congregation cannot be registered because it does
What have we learned from the election? Here are a few points I’ve learned: 1. The polls are accurate. (The average of the state-by-state polls put out by RealClearPolitics the day before the election were pretty much right on the money.) 2. It’s NOT “the
Colorado and Washington state voted in a referendum to legalize marijuana. Not just medical marijuana, recreational marijuana. (Oregon defeated a similar measure.) The problem is, the sale and possession of marijuana are still illegal according to federal law. The states are trying to figure out
As you may have heard, a movie about Noah is in the works starring Russell Crowe. But don’t get too excited. Christian screenwriter Brian Godawa has seen the script. The flood is being played as an environmentalist disaster, and Noah, in effect, is its Al
President Obama has been re-elected. The Democrats kept the Senate, and the Republicans kept the House. So our government will basically be what it has been for another four years. Obamacare will proceed as planned. Discuss.
Some people are objecting to the notion that we have a “Judeo-Christian” civilization, arguing instead that what we have is an “Islamo-Christian” civilization. See Does It Make Sense to Speak of Judeo-Christian Civilization? » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog. The reason we can
Disney has bought Lucasfilm and is promising a reboot of the Star Wars series, with Episode 7 promised for 2015. Given that the Star Wars episodes have been more or less disappointing since the original trilogy and that the imaginary universe has been given a
Let’s live-blog the election coverage. The networks have vowed not to call the election until at least 11:00 ET–that is, after all of the polling places have closed on the West coast–but results from key battleground states will be coming in as early as 7:00
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