The 2016 election included the strongest third-party campaign since Ross Perot in 1992 and it looks like the two major parties have not gotten any more popular in the intervening three years. A new poll shows that just under 40…
A lot of well-meaning Christians like to point out how Americans make Idols out of many things. At times, it can seem to be a bit much to say that television, food, work, our cars, or anything and everything has…
In the summer of 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump participated in a meeting with a group of so-called evangelical leaders and prosperity gospel con-artists — a group of charlatans I now refer to as the Fellowship of the Pharisees — to…
Candidates for political office have long sought to find and use phrases and themes to rally support. “A chicken in every pot,” “compassionate conservatism,” “change we need,” and “I’m with her,” have all been employed in past presidential races. That…
A couple of aphorisms come to mind when looking at the Ukraine whistleblower scandal. At its core, the scandal is about unintended consequences and deception weaving a tangled web. While there have been many unintended consequences of President Trump’s request…
In his Washington Post opinion piece yesterday, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) threw down the gauntlet to his fellow Republicans and challenged them to “risk [their] careers in favor of [their] principles” concerning Donald Trump’s unworthiness to be re-elected in…
When Ben Sasse rode the TEA Party wave to victory by defeating Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment to win the Nebraska Republican Party primary for the US Senate in 2014, it was viewed by many as another notch in…
