Schroeder’s Corner
Put A Fork In Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations – They’re Well Done
It has been no secret for a long time now that Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. So naked is his ambition that as soon as Trump got elected the second time, Newsom inelegantly and unmasterfully tried to position himself as a…
An Agreement To Come To An Agreement
As has become far too typical in the president’s dealing with Iran, it has been announced that something has happened, but we don’t have a clue as to what has actually happened. On X, the host quotes John Ellis quoting Bloomberg proclaiming it…
Be At Peace
Yesterday I analogized myself to the proverbial porch sitting curmudgeon. The world is full of the completely, astonishingly outrageous. Late last week, dean of conservative Calvinist preachers, John Piper, released a podcast entitled…
“Get Off My Lawn”
From the evil to the wrong to the outrageous to the stupid the world seems full of…shall we say, the less than the ideal. So often does news of the latest “you have got to be kidding me” hit me in the face that I am beginning…
Modernity Explained?
The Chronicle of Higher Education carries a piece by Tyler Jagt, a literature and critical writing professor, entitled, “My Student’s Can’t Read.” (I am forced to note that for any such prof I had, the use of a…
The End of Ethics?
On Monday, Jim Geraghty worried about the end of ethics in electoral politics. It needs careful analysis. He begins by looking at lessons learned form Mitt Romney being defeated by Barack Obamas: Republicans learned a hard lesson that year:…
“Do not repay anyone evil for evil”
Yesterday, in reviewing the obvious nature of electoral shenanigan’s in Los Angeles, I warned that we must resist the temptation to be like them. My argument, made in less eloquent terms than the Apostle Paul did in the passage quoted in…
L.A. Lessons – The Hugh Hewitt Show
It was inevitable, I suppose. And yet can one discuss inevitability when it comes to the statistically impossible? Yesterday, The NBC News projection desk declared the two way runoff for Los Angeles Mayor come fall was to be between incumbent…
The Trump Admin’s Boneheaded Move
On Thursday, The Pentagon announced a reorganization of its religious affiliation categories. Fair enough, the system had become unwieldy, religions come and go, adjustments do need to be made from time-to-time. But on Sunday it began to…
The Broken Church – The Hugh Hewitt Show
Church these days loves to remind us that “God is love,” but it is funny how little we hear about when Jesus said, “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.” Too often we like to…