My One Chance at an Overnight in the White House
Ben Sasse wins the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Nebraska — handily! Sasse blunted a mini-surge from wealthy bank executive Sid Dinsdale, who appeared to emerge as a threat during the final...
View ArticleWho Needs Sanctification if Everyone (except the politicians) is Innocent?
In The Prospect this morning (my effort to sample British magazines) I ran across and op-ed about Detroit’s bankruptcy. Lynn Paramore invoked the notion of faultlessness to understand who’s at fault...
View ArticleIs It the Offense of 2k, or Just Nebraska?
Ben Sasse won handily in the Nebraska senate election yesterday and thus keeps alive any hopes I have of spending a night in the White House (should he ever decide to run for president). Finding anyone...
View ArticleMr. Sorkin Goes to Washington
Ben Sasse gave his first speech as a Senator last week and it echoed themes from Newsroom and West Wing about putting the country ahead of partisan politics. If Sorkin is hopeful about the presidency...
View ArticleWhen the Skinny Lady Sings “Silent Night” You Live In A Christian Nation
Even before I watched Senator Ben Sasse’s video about the murders in San Bernadino, I had a sense that what binds Americans together is not freedom (as Sasse argues) but Christianity. How’s that? Well,...
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More Burke, Less Locke
Ben Sasse addressed CPAC yesterday and Scott Clark has the video under the heading, “The Government Exists to Secure Natural Rights.” I immediately wondered if this commits the federal government to...
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The Original Evangelicals aren’t Evangelical?!?
Just noticed this in John Fea’s odds making for the evangelical vote this November: Some evangelicals continue to oppose Trump and have not made it clear what they will do in November. I am thinking...
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Sasse 2020
I am calling the bluff of those who throw around the label “R2K.” Listen to the interview Scott Clark did with Senator Ben Sasse and tell me where he is wrong. Sasse has a smart understanding of the...
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Choose Ye This Day
Donald Trump elicits the inner fundamentalist in all Americans. A recent expression is a drive-by blog post at Commonweal on Senator Ben Sasse: Well, that didn’t take long. Ben Sasse, Nebraska’s...
View ArticleMaybe This is what b, sd Had in Mind (trigger warning for Keller aficionados)
)And for contributors to Sasse 2020.) Rod Dreher re-posted parts of an Aaron Renn post about urban/hipster Protestantism. First, Renn’s categories: Ben Sasse is a conservative exemplar of what I term...
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