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Introduction

The battles are heating up and the combatants are employing more precision-targeted weaponry.  The culture war wasn’t really about so-called “gay marriage” (whatever that is) or abortion or name your social conservative issue that the left has claimed victory over using the activist court system.  If the culture war was about those issues, the war would be over.  Peace would have been declared and we would have entered into what the left conceived of as an era of progressive enlightenment.  That is far from reality.

We have been at sea for a week for a special celebration that merited special recognition and an extraordinary response with the closest of friends.  As we begin these last decades of life and marriage, we are compelled to try new things: a cruise ship, the teas and spices of the West Indies, distant lands, Uber.  What a joy it has been.  And I have made a new friend with one of God’s creations on this trip.  Let me tell you about her.

I have read the Congressional committee memorandum (“the memo”) just now released.  As someone who understands the nature and practice of handling classified information, I have these observations.

It’s award season in Hollywood and I don’t watch those shows.  I’m not familiar with what goes on there.  For example, they had the music awards show on the other night.  From the wall to wall commercials about that show leading up to it, I concluded I preferred songs with music in them.  So, I didn’t watch.

It was MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Obamacare, who said the “stupidity of the American voter” was the reason Obamacare passed into law.  I teach in University and I couldn’t get away with that.  I guess you can when you’re smart and teach at MIT.

I am my country’s humble servant, but God’s first.

I usually wait a day or so before I start to think about the latest media hissy fit over the fact that Hillary wasn’t elected in 2016.  The people of the United States, in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, elected the person they wanted, and it wasn’t Hillary.

I’ve discussed this notion of God’s Transponder many times in my classes and in Bible Studies and on this website.  Something new popped up last week that I want to share with you.

The late-night talk shows are still drunk on Trump jokes, the left-wing media is still drunk on Trump’s tweets, and according to the 2017 ABC News radio year-in-review show, one of the major stories in 2017 was still Trump’s election victory (which occurred in 2016).

People may have wondered why we go through the expense for such a lavish dinner on Christmas Day.  Affectionately known in our house as “Roast Beast,” the prime rib we serve is arguably the most expensive dinner we prepare all year.  Why then, when our Savior entered the world in such a “low estate,” do we go all out at the dinner table?