Plus: ‘Not Permitted in the Public Square’: How 1 Australian Christian Was Forced to Resign
November 19 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats are still breathing sighs of relief that they didn’t do far worse in the midterm elections. What happened to Republicans? Victor Davis Hanson has thoughts. More counties in Illinois vote to form their own, less liberal state, Kevin Bessler reports. Plus: the head of an Australian football team is persecuted for being Christian; what goes unaddressed in the debate over the climate; and former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s take on the “election denier” label. Eighty years ago today, the Soviet Red Army under Gen. Georgy Zhukov launches a counteroffensive that will turn the tide against Nazi Germany in the Battle of Stalingrad.
In 2010, President Obama lost 63 House seats. Is President Biden, therefore, more charismatic or more energetic than Obama? Was his agenda more successful and popular?
The source of public controversy was that Andrew Thorburn’s church articulated a biblical understanding of sexuality and a proper Christian response to the tragedy of abortion.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the wide availability of fossil fuels almost exclusively resulted in the steep rise in the standard of living over the 20th century and into the 21st.