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John Piper recounts some details of “a story of the last one hundred years that makes you realize you must have already fallen asleep.”

Unexpected Blows to Fatalistic Thinking :: Desiring God

This election does not show that voters have abandoned their belief in limited government; it shows that the Republican Party has abandoned them. In fact, these results represent the total failure of big government Republicanism.

– Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), November 8, 2006

President Reagan said of his change in party affiliation, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.” I have often felt like I will one day look back at the 2004 election and find myself saying the same thing about the GOP.

– Hugh Williams, June 1, 2006

HT: Justin Taylor

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Michael Ramsden of The Zacharias Trust (Ravi Zacharias’s European ministry) gave a splendid talk at the European Leadership Forum titled Conversational Apologetics.

Download the MP3, have a listen, and consider it well… you will be edified, educated, and entertained as you learn to think better about ways to be an effective ambassador for Christ.

Charles Krauthammer identifies the high cost of taking on Iran, including this assessment of the diplomatic liabilities:

There will be massive criticism of America from around the world. Much of it is to be discounted. The Muslim street will come out again for a few days, having replenished its supply of flammable American flags most recently exhausted during the cartoon riots. Their governments will express solidarity with a fellow Muslim state, but this will be entirely hypocritical. The Arabs are terrified about the rise of a nuclear Iran and would privately rejoice in its defanging.

The Europeans will be less hypocritical because their visceral anti-Americanism trumps rational calculation. We will have done them an enormous favor by sparing them the threat of Iranian nukes, but they will vilify us nonetheless.

These are the costs. There is no denying them. However, equally undeniable is the cost of doing nothing.

He goes on to spell out the cost of doing nothing, and it’s far worse than watching Old Glory ignite on the streets of the Middle East…

HT: John Lee