On Wednesday, Ron DeSantis gave a speech that smelled deeply of the opening salvo in the next presidential campaign.  He did so by declaring Tuesday’s “blue tsunami” an “extinction level event.”  The remark was rhetorically dramatic and way over-the-top, but it was designed to be.  It is a sound bite that will reverberate as long as DeSantis is a candidate – in waiting or in actuality.  Yesterday, Gavin Newsom likewise fired his opening presidential salvo on the other side of the aisle, but he did so not with mere rhetoric; he did so with action.  Action that returns to him the

Day two of this interesting new reality and everyone has an explanation for it.  It always seems to me that if they can explain that fast, they could prevent it, because they had to see it coming.  So I take such takes with a grain of salt – they are grinding their personal axe against what happened.  The landscape is stunning though.  Has the electorate lost its mind?  It seems so in L.A.  If you are Mormon, you have got to be angry.  They were, after all, literally driven out of the country for something legalized on Tuesday.  We just may have put an enemy agent into office.  Personally, I see us in a state where

To my liberal Christian friends – you won.  I concede.  Well done.  Feel free to gloat.  Go ahead, pile on – you deserve to.  If you are so inclined, do your little profane victory dance.  But please, hold the sanctimony.. . .

Take a deep breath, absorb the results.  It happened – can’t change it.  No sense getting worked up about it.  The key question is what to do from here.  In fact that is the only question.  Hand-wringing, pearl-clutching and other forms of panic or worry or anxiety are useless.  What do we do from here?. . .

Election Day – yeah well, it is, but today is also Godzilla Day.  Yes, on this day in 1954 the very first Godzilla movie opened in Japanese theaters and spawned a media empire.  Godzilla has been a destructive monster, a force of nature and a world-saving hero.  He has changed from good guy to bad guy with great frequency – like a pro wrestler. Which, if you think about it is all a good Godzilla movie is – pro wrestling writ large – a story told to hype a big battle between the good guy  (the face in wrestling parlance) and the bad guy (the heel.)  And with that analogy firmly established to have

Jim Jones and The People’s Temple.  Marshall Applewhite and Heavens Gate.  David Koresh and The Branch Davidians.  Three examples of crazy cults – cults so whacko and so devoted that they met ignominious ends in murder/suicide situations.  News broke just this weekend of polling that reveals Trump Derangement Sydrome to be very real.  (HT: Instapundit)  That’s a problem, “What’s more, TDS is an excuse for sufferers to get away with anything they want — including lying, cheating, and stealing to win elections — such as we are witnessing in Alaska.”  But I think today has revealed that the

Undoubtedly, many pulpits this Sunday morning will tell the gathered how to vote – specifically.  I would not be so presumptuous.  The Bible does not really contemplate the sorts of issues that confront the modern voter as democracy was rare at the time and even ancient Rome or Greece were more oligarchy than democracy. Nonetheless, we are told “…whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”  So there is a valid question here – how do we vote “in the name of Jesus?”. . .

Election Day is less than a week away.  Everybody is paying attention, which means the “messaging” is at peak volume and if it is to be believed the stakes of this election are nothing less than the survival of the United States of America.  What utter drivel.. . .