Christ on a Crackpot: A Pair of Dangerous Speeches from the Attorney General and Secretary of State

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Last Friday, both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr were giving speeches before different groups in the middle of the country. Pompeo was speaking in Nashville to the American Association of Christian Counselors. Barr was speaking in South Bend, Indiana, at the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. Yet both approached their subjects from a similar perspective: Continue Reading...

Selling Purim to Progressives Yet Again

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It has been my custom to reproduce this “Selling Purim to Progressives” post occasionally on Purim, with some modifications.  The last time was in 2012.  But when I read yesterday what I wrote then, I realized that little had changed in the last three years.  There was Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with his annual Purim message: Present-day Iran is Persia, its leader is the wicked Haman, they want to destroy us; if the US doesn’t come through, Continue Reading...

Islam Isn’t the Problem? – Pt. II

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Speaking in New York last April, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a dire warning about Muslim extremism.  This aberrant strain of Islam, he said ominously, constitutes a grave threat to international peace and security.  We’d better take note. In an earlier post, I argued that the terrorist menace to the West, specifically that with a Muslim persuasion, is highly exaggerated.  The infrequency with which Americans in particular Continue Reading...