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A Wise Nation Should Cultivate A Political Spirit That Allows Opponents To Cooperate Without Fearing An Automatic Execution From Their Core Supporters. Who Knew That The Real Rogues In American Politics Would Be The Ones Who Dare To Get Along?

The Past Always Seems Somehow More Golden, More Serious, Than The Present. We Tend To Forget The Partisanship Of Yesteryear, Preferring To Re-imagine Our History As A Sure And Steady March Toward Greatness.

The Problem For Those Who Assert Biblical Authority In Support Of Traditional Definitions Of Marriage Is That One Could, With Equal Validity, Assert That The Lending Of Money Or Certain Kinds Of Haircuts Are Forbidden By God, Or That Slavery And The Subjugation Of Women Are Authorized By The Lord.

If Heaven Is Understood More As God's Space On Earth Than As An Ethereal Region Apart From The Essential Reality We Know, Then What Happens On Earth Matters Even More Than We Think, For The Christian Life Becomes A Continuation Of The Unfolding Work Of Jesus, Who Will One Day Return To Set The World To Rights.

World War Ii Ended The Great Depression With One Of The Great Public-private Industrial Collaborations In The History Of Man.