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@JakeSherman It would not have mattered. Fairfax was going to deliver the number needed - that's why they are the last to report. It's an unusual coincidence that is a pattern in Democratic states - let's see if this vote stands on appeal

There are a lot of Republicans in Washington tonight wondering why national GOP political organizations didnt spend more aggressively in Virginia.

@JoshKraushaar Fairfax just needs to know what the number is they need to deliver.

NBC News just changed "call" on Virginia redistricting from "too early to call" to "too close to call." All coming down to Fairfax. If Fairfax votes like the rest of NoVa, would expect Yes to win narrowly.

Pastor and author Tim Keller writes, “Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.” If you have experienced the latter, I’m sorry. But I’m equally sorry if you’ve only experienced the former. Sentimentality might feel good. After all, everyone wants to be affirmed and supported. But this is equally dangerous, because it puts feelings above truth. No, truth and love must be presented together. I’m so sorry for any Christian who would mistakenly give you one without the other.

Watched the French-Stuckey debate. My main takeaway: The whole debate centered upon a truth-emotion continuum. I think Allie Beth came out ahead for one main reason that colors every issue debated: She indexes her understanding of emotion and empathy on a biblical axis, whereas French elevates emotion and empathy to a disproportionate degree. The consequence is to unmoor emotion from truth. There's simply a difference in rhetorical strategy: Stuckey focuses more on logos; French on pathos. Along those lines, another reason I think Allie Beth had the stronger hand is that she refuses to play the game of pitting love against truth (1 Cor. 13:6; Eph. 4:15). She's no less interested in kindness or empathy, but properly indexed by Scripture. French's focus on catering to emotional equilibrium (and thus hewing to progressive niceties) requires him to blur biblical categories. Biblical ethics requires both logos and pathos, but our loves must be ordered and governed with a proper foundation. And notably, French's empathy tends in one direction, toward those to his left. In short, Allie Beth focused on objectivity, reason, and right and wrong as the grounds of what constitutes love and kindness, whereas French's instinct is to defer to emotion and aesthetics.

Thomas Sowell gets it: He's 94 years old and has never held political office, never had a viral moment, never begged for your attention. He just wrote 30 books, spent 50 years dismantling bad ideas with data, and let the work speak. No green room. No cable news contract. No ideology to sell you. While academics were chasing grants and politicians were chasing polls, Sowell was in the library proving them all wrong. The most dangerous intellectual in America isn't the loudest one. It's the one who doesn't need you to agree with him.

@ambermarieduke @jtLOL The famous quote from David Burge "when Republicans screw up that's the story - when Democrats screw up its the Republicans reaction that's the story "

The first big story of my career was reporting on Chris Matthews repeatedly sexually harassing staff and nothing happened to him until years later when a woman wrote for GQ that he sexually harassed her so maybe the problem is that leftist media ignore victims when they don’t tell the “right” outlets what happened to them

@GolfDigest @chambleebrandel Love the way the word "expert" gets tossed around and abused. My observation is it's always attached to someone who agrees with your views

Thomas Friedman is a foreign affairs expert with a unique perspective on how golf was meant to fit into Saudi Arabia's ambitions. Read more: glfdig.st/BvFN50YLwMC

@conservmillen Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth

Last year, David French received backlash for calling his trans-identified male colleague, “she.” In 2018, he’d written that calling a man by female pronouns is a lie he couldn’t participate in. I asked him about this seeming change. “Do you equate calling a man who identifies as a woman “he” as being unkind?” French: “I don’t see the value in saying something that I know and they know is going to be hurtful to them. It’s just normal, complete politeness and manners.”

@DOBrienATL Still missing the D'OB and E'OF podcast

O’Flaherty, baby. “O’Ventbrel” slammed the door after six.

@gilduran76 Everything today - particularly on social media it seems - is about fascism (which is never really defined) and a "war on democracy". Is it that consultants tell clients if they use these "buzz words" their products will sell?

@joshrogin I'm sure you do but it seems to someone who is seeking knowledge and information there are equally smart people who have opposing views?

@GregS1716 I only push my own point of view and I just call em like I see em. If there is evidence to support optimism, I don’t see it. So far it’s been a strategic mess and a worldwide unforced error of massive proportions.

“President Trump would like the war to be over soon. He’s clearly signaling he wants the war to be over soon. But the Iranians have a different strategy. Their strategy is to stretch this out as long as possible. Their strategy is to inflict as much pain on the U.S. and the world economy as possible. And that’s why Trump’s strategy of blockading their blockade really doesn’t make any sense when you think about it. They’re going to blockade the Strait, so we’re going to blockade the Strait to counter their blockade of the Strait? It’s a recipe for continued stalemate.”

@DOBrienATL When I saw the Braves signed Smith this off season I thought Alex was nuts. I'd followed Smith through his Nats career which was dismal at best then the Red Sox and Giants. This is miraculous

Dom “Drama” Smith does it again for the #Braves. Been their best clutch hitter so far.

@KidCreole311 @benshapiro You know how it worked out

@GregS1716 @benshapiro Sued OSHA? 🤭 How’d it work out?

Hey @benshapiro I’m guessing no comment? Or should we expect an apology… … … … … … … … 🙄

@JakeSherman Nothing will happen to Schiff - there's absolutely nobody in the media who has an appetite to chase him. People have known the type of guy Schiff is and they've done zilch. Why should it be any different now?

Schiff and Swalwell have been close allies for years. This is a big blow.

@brianstelter What a toad - he makes CNN look incompetent

Eric Swalwell ending his bid for California governor is, among other things, a testament to the power of investigative reporting

@aaron_renn @profyancey $$$

@profyancey I’m curious what made you decide to publish this in the Dispatch.

Never published in the Dispatch before. Now I have. thedispatch.com/article/christ…

@roddreher Tobin and Cupich both are McCarrick acolytes

"Influential"? These guys are all Boomer liberals, Francis appointees who do not represent the mainstream of US Catholic opinion, and certainly not where the spiritual energy is among the laity. Nor the future of the Catholic Church in the US.

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@SohrabAhmari Gee - Cardinal Cupich same Cardinal that Cardinal Vigano had some thoughts about - thought immigration was more important than pedophilia? And protect the treasury

May God protect and preserve the pope and our American hierarchy.